David Delamare is a British-American artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

. His work includes figurative paintings and portraits, children's book illustration, and fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

. He is best known for his fantasy work, specifically his mermaids and fairies. His preferred media are acrylics, oils and sometimes colored pencils or oil pastels. His works are published by Bad Monkey Productions.

Delamare currently lives in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

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Books

His illustrations and original stories appear in several books including:

• Animerotics: A Forbidden Cabaret in 26 Acts by Wendy Ice and David Delamare
• Mermaids & Magic Shows: The Paintings of David Delamare by Nigel Suckling
• Midnight Farm by Carly Simon
  Carly Simon
  Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work...
  
  
• The Man in the Moon and the Hot Air Balloon written and illustrated by David Delamare
• Cinderella adapted and illustrated by David Delamare
• The Christmas Secret written and illustrated by David Delamare
• The Nutcracker
• Hawk's Tale by John Balaban
  John Balaban
  John B. Balaban is an American poet and translator, an authority on Vietnamese literature.-Biography:Balaban was born in a housing project neighborhood in Philadelphia to Romanian immigrant parents, Phillip and Alice Georgies Balaban...
  
  
• Twelve Days of Christmas
• The Steadfast Tin Soldier

External links

• Official site