This original dolphin oil painting arrives framed and ready to hang via the pictured wooden frame secured by 30lb wire and d-rings. Paintings also include a Certificate of Authenticity attached to the back of the painting. Paintings are professionally packaged and insured during shipment.
I've been wanting to paint a dolphin, dead on a beach, contrasting childhood and the pending environmental doom for quite some time now, so that's where the inspiration came from. This painting is one of my favorites. I know it's hard to pick your favorite but this painting hangs above my desk in my office. It's an excellent conversation piece, and I think it's the right balance between controversial and decorative. Someone on etsy even left me an angry message in French telling me how awful this painting is. I cherish memories like that.
This was challenging because I had to juxtapose different Dolphin images ontop of each other. The Dolphin was actually based off a miniature dolphin which I bought at a toy store.
It gives me a slight chuckle due to the Dolphin's ridiculous tongue, but there is definitely a serious layer to that comedy. The environment is only getting worse. A recent NY Times report by a climate risk analyst for financial firms really paints a horrific picture. Working for a non-profit that was founded by 12 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, I was surrounded by the gloom of climate change. Even I don't do enough to address the issue. Projections suggest that all life in the ocean will be extinct by 2100. A child, possibly my own child, plays on the beach with a dead dolphin. She innocently asks "Can we keep it?" The ocean is such a beautiful place and its sad to think about how we are destroying it, weather or not it has anything to do with climate change, there are still giant floating islands of garbage, and recently Japan decided to dump a million tonnes of nuclear waste into the ocean.
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Cedric Chambers is best known for blending AI, digital photographs, and composite images into the reference materials for his oil paintings. Frequently utilizing metal panels as his canvas, Chambers builds up layers of color over months and sometimes years.
Chambers has said, "Artificial Intelligence is the most significant innovation to influence oil painting since the invention of the handheld camera in the 1880s."
Born in 1990, Cedric Alessandro Chambers is a Bolivian-American oil painter. He holds a BFA and an MBA from MSU Denver.
