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Digital Art Figurative Painting

Soubrette

Leah, 2000 Soubrette, 2025 One of my favorite things to do is to read the Goings On section of the About Town page in the New Yorker. In this week's issue, I came across the word soubrette in a description of an actor's role in…

Mike ChambersJune 15, 2025

Digital Art Figurative Painting

From Bad Photo to Masterpiece: Fixing ‘Green Goddesses’

Green Goddesses, not a great photo Green Goddesses I was thinking about how to fix my painting Green Goddesses. I remembered reading a story about Jackson Pollock going into a house where someone had one of his paintings and he insisted on making corrections to…

Mike ChambersMay 17, 2025

Angels Bikes Digital Art Painting

If you look hard enough you’ll see angels

Do you ever wonder if there are angels among us? I do. The last time I saw one I was out on Shore Drive right by Lake Michigan. I looked over to a stretch of houses overlooking the water and she just flitted by on…

Mike ChambersApril 21, 2025

Digital Art Exhibitions

Character Development

Boise State produced this awesome virtual tour of my show, Character Development. You can walk down the hall, pause in front of a group of portraits, zoom in and enjoy the fantastic details. All without getting out of your pajamas! This exhibit is made possible…

Mike ChambersMarch 10, 2021

Digital Art

Words describing art are tiny poems

The poet Amanda Gorman was so inspiring this week! She reminded me of the power of words. So, with the help of Amanda's muse, I wrote some stories for each image in the Character Development exhibition. Farnsworth: "He's awake to the past and dreaming of…

Mike ChambersJanuary 23, 2021

Digital Art Exhibitions

Character Development: Portrait Studies is now open!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBmsDJGtVyo This exhibit is made possible by the Idaho Commission on the Arts and Boise State University.

Mike ChambersJanuary 16, 2021

© 2022 Michael Chambers - Roderick, framed, digital painting by Mike Chambers

Digital Art Exhibitions Figurative Work in process

A Pop Up to Inaugurate the Return of Art & Reason

Roderick, digital art I'm excited to announce a new show for 2021! About 40 of my new digital art images will be displayed at the Trueblood Popup Gallery at the Student Union Building on the campus of Boise State University. The show will run from…

Mike ChambersJanuary 1, 2021

Digital Art

Doors to adore

Variations on a Door Why do I paint doors? Long answer: they are rectangles so they make a nice, solid composition on a rectangular or square canvas, they are a perfect symbol with lots of meaning for me (passages, portals, thresholds, opportunity, and more), and…

Mike ChambersJanuary 26, 2014