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Larnelle Chambers / Visual art

Paintings, drawings
& illustrations.

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Featured painting

Sunflower Witness

A field of green.
A constellation of marks.
A gaze held still.

Acrylic, graphite, ink, and metallic paint

Portrait of a Black figure against a deep green field with yellow flowers and white ornamental linework.
Sunflower Witness / Larnelle Chambers

Click or drag across the surrounding fieldTap the surrounding field and let it settle. This interactive relief is a presentation study; the original painting remains unchanged.

From the studio archive

Faces.
Marks.
Characters.

Three studies from my artwork archive. Open a print to see its original post.

Collection / 27 works

The collection.

Portraits built from graphite, ink, paint, and ornament. Illustrations that move between figures, landscapes, and light. Open any image to see the complete work.

Paintings & drawings

Acrylic, graphite, and metallic paint

Red Moon Profile

A red-field profile built around a silver moon form, reflective facial modelling, and white patterning across the neck and shoulder.

Acrylic, graphite, ink, and metallic paint

Green Oracle

A frontal figure set against green, where butterflies, gold accents, and white gestural markings turn ornament into a living field.

Acrylic, ink, collage, and graphite

Shine Archive

A layered archive piece built from handwritten fragments, graphic symbols, grids, eyes, and a figure carrying text across the body.

Acrylic, graphite, ink, and metallic paint

Sunflower Witness

A green and gold portrait where sunflowers, white linework, and a centered gaze create a bright, ceremonial stillness.

Charcoal, graphite, and white paint

Shelter Study

A close, compressed figure study using darkness, stripes, and white scrawl to hold a private moment of tension.

Acrylic, graphite, ink, and metallic paint

Red Earring Study

A red-ground portrait balancing cool facial tones, gold earrings, and calligraphic white marks across the body.

Graphite and mixed media on paper

Sideward Study

A profile portrait study built around lifted gaze, dense graphite modelling, and small residual color tests left in the margin.

Acrylic, ink, and metallic paint

Nocturne Bloom

A black, white, and gold figure composition where flowers, wings, and ornamental marks push portraiture toward myth.

Charcoal on paper

Quiet Weather

A charcoal study using soft smudged value and unfinished negative space to hold a guarded, direct gaze.

Acrylic, ink, and mixed media

Crown in Coral

A portrait against a coral ground, with white ornamental linework and muted botanical marks moving through the figure.

Graphite, acrylic, and metallic paint

Sunflower Apparition

A graphite and paint portrait framed by gold sunflowers, balancing delicate facial modelling with expressive floral gesture.

Ink on paper

For the Love of Ink

A portrait constructed from restless black line, letting density, repetition, and movement build the face.

Charcoal on paper

Hand to Crown

A resting portrait study where tonal mass and loose hairline marks hold the figure in a suspended gesture.

Graphite on paper

Downcast Study

A pencil portrait focused on a lowered gaze, light graphite transitions, and a deliberately unfinished shoulder line.

Ink, graphite, and wash

Silver Wash Portrait

A cool grey portrait using wash, loose contour, and pen-line texture to sit between likeness and atmosphere.

Illustrations & digital work

Digital painting

Rose Crown

A painted portrait balancing a riot of rose colour against a still terracotta field.

Digital painting

Whitetail Crossing

Whitetail bucks crossing a bright mountain pond, caught mid-splash.

Digital painting

Sunflowers

A quiet vertical landscape — sunflowers, a rising cloud, and open blue.

Digital illustration

Kin

A group study in restless monochrome line — five figures held in one gathering.

Digital illustration

Ash

Inktober · Ash — a figure rooting into bare branches as ash falls around her.

Ink

Enchanted

Inktober · Enchanted — a small horned familiar keeping watch in a hatched wood.

Ink

Husky

Inktober · Husky — a lone dog held against a hatched mountain valley.

Ink

Snow

Inktober · Snow — a face surfacing through a blizzard of white line.

Ink

Mindless

Inktober · Mindless — a wired profile coming apart into pattern and motion.

Digital, abstract

I Got Robbed Yesterday

An electric abstract — a burning eye of colour, kept as its own record of a bad day.

Digital, abstract

Colors Can Be Distracting

A study in pure light — warm colour pulled into a single distracting glow.