I painted a bunch of little canvases with a naples yellow ground and I'm having fun experimenting with different approaches and styles. These are photos of a few of 'em in process.
Mike ChambersNovember 20, 2013
A tradition at our house is to make Christmas gifts by hand. I came across this composite image of nine tiny little door paintings I painted a couple years ago. Good inspiration for this year's gifts. Christmas Doors, oil on canvas, each painting is 2 x 2 inches a little…
Mike ChambersNovember 10, 2013
One of the cool things that an image editor app like GIMP or Photoshop does is to give me a chance to view a painting in process with new changes, new lighting, new effects, and a ton of other crazy stuff. In some cases -- in the best of cases…
Mike ChambersOctober 30, 2013
This little painting is almost done. Angel, oil on canvas, 8 x 6 inches
Mike ChambersOctober 28, 2013
Just found this photo of the actual street in New Orleans that inspired the Bike Alley series. The owner of the house was a pirate married to a princess and the bike itself was said to be ridden only at night by a ghost. The picture's dated 1898 but some…
Mike ChambersOctober 20, 2013
This is the third painting in the bike alley series. I'm having a ton of fun working out this composition. The series started this past spring with a painting for my Coming into View show at the Carol Robinson gallery. I followed up a few weeks ago with Bike Alley…
Mike ChambersOctober 18, 2013
Talk to Me, Mark Rothkooil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches This piece was painted to help raise funds for Boise Contemporary Theater and for their production of Red, by John Logan.
Mike ChambersSeptember 27, 2013
Bike Alley in the Fall, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches This piece is based on the original Bike Alley that was the announcement image for Coming Into View earlier this year at the Carol Robinson Gallery. This bad boy shipped off to Carol this week to be included…
Mike ChambersSeptember 18, 2013
Yep, it's named after the orange soda. This was painted to help raise funds for Idaho Parents Unlimited, an organization that assists families of children with disabilities. Fantabike, oil on board, 12 x 12 inches
Mike ChambersSeptember 8, 2013
Study for Bike Alley in the Fall, watercolor This is a watercolor study to help me figure out the chair in Bike Alley . If you take apart a treble clef and re-compose it into a chair, it might look like this.
Mike ChambersSeptember 7, 2013
Romey phase 1 Romey phase 2 Romey's Chair, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches Same canvas, different painting. This painting was originally included in my solo show in Boise called Thresholds. After the show came down it hung on Lina and Ian's wall for a while, then it went back into…
Mike ChambersApril 27, 2013
Okay, here's the thing. I've been workin' on these paintings for Carol Robinson. And I mean All. The live-long. Day. So, when I rediscovered the Gipsy Kings on Spotify, and when everything came together and the painting was going great and all the stars were aligned and it all became…
Mike ChambersApril 15, 2013
Here's my painting for the Treasure Valley Artists' Alliance's Local Color show in celebration of Boise's 150th birthday. This is based on Boise Blue -- an art supply store that I used to love to visit. It closed about three years ago. I have fond memories of all the great…
Mike ChambersMarch 28, 2013
I've decided that this would be a very reasonable resolution for the year: sell one print online. And to help make this happen, I've remodeled my website to focus on my one sale. Wish me luck! Jack Aubrey's Studio, giclée on canvas
Mike ChambersJanuary 24, 2012
