Creative art of Jeffrey Batchelor II  

Thursday, December 30, 2010

This is yet another painting inspired by the most famous painting in the world and perhaps the most influential artist of all time… “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci. It is artists hope that the viewer will forgive the pretentiousness of using such a masterpiece and appreciate his unique vision and execution.
This painting incorporates some of Jeffrey Batchelor favorite metaphoric symbols, the first and most obvious being chess. Artist likes using chess as a symbol of the daily struggles of our lives. In this painting the figure is in a state of deep contemplation while kneeling in a “dream” environment that is a giant chessboard. Small chess pieces are scattered at her feet while in the distance a giant rook has fallen, and soaring into the sky are a black bishop and a king, whose color is not easily discerable.The figure is dressed in a white sheet and there is a crown on the ground in front of her, marking her as the white queen. The black bishop is a symbol of religion …









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Creative art of Jeffrey Batchelor  

Tuesday, December 28, 2010


Artist Jeffrey Batchelor definitely deserves a lot of attention having displayed the richness of his talent with his oil on canvas paintings. He demonstrates an interesting approach to the scenes he paints, creating a very magical and fun effects.

Conceptually, his work ranges from straight realism to surrealism, and from rectangular canvases to shaped canvas panels. Thanks to his extensive training in theatrical scenic construction. Often working with magnifiers, he delineate and define the myriad of reflections and refractions that exist within thick blown and cut crystal – realism for realism’s sake.

When realism becomes too constraining for him, he likes to reach into surrealism, to take an idea or a concept and develop it with a magical flavor. This allows him to elicit the viewer’s thought processes and visually define a concept, idea, or feeling. When a rectangle becomes constraining, he creates shaped panels that he paints in trompe-l’oiel fashion. This gives him endless possibilities for shape and depth illusions, as you will be able to observe here.
















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Alice in Weird Land  

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Since the story about Alice is one most people would know from their childhood, loads of graphic art is created around it. Some fan art seems to be a product of their grown up fantasies. Their fantasies make one new world for Alice which is no longer called Wonderland, but has become Weird Land. A parallel universe where Alice does not behave in the way we expect her to, where she is not an innocent young girl. Alice has all grown up, now.






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Fairy Tales and Horror  

Friday, December 24, 2010

This is so weird and odd. Do you remember all of these fairy tales. Cool and kind a bizarre remake of old good fairy tales.











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Fairy tales in the Modern Edition III  

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Brazilian artist Cris de Lara engaged in graphic and web design. As an illustrator and digital artist, Lara, along with her husband, so far has done a lot of advertisements, comics, books… Lara’s girls at these images, in addition to that they are fun and interesting, have a real artistic value in the digital arts. Some of them are characters from us well-known fairy tales, some are the characters from mythology and folklore, and some are cute pin up girls. What they have in common are impressive drawings, great consistent color and overall design, and mostly good general idea of the characters and their personage.





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