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Young Heroines




The Unicorn Chronicles 3, rejected version
 

The Unicorn Chronicles 2



The Unicorn Chronicles 3, final version



Children of the Lamp 6



Children of the Lamp 4

 

Hans and Gretel

The Unicorn chronicles 1



MicroVisions

The MicroVisions is Live! This is your chance to obtain a nice little piece of art for not so much  money. Entire profit from this auction goes to the student scholarships.

You can check it out HERE 

 

Scott M. Fischer

Red Nose Studio

Teresa N. Fischer

João Ruas

João Lemos

Bill Carman

John Hendrix

Mike Mignola

Petar Meseldzija

Cory Godbey

Allen Williams

Kekai Kotaki

Paolo Rivera

 

Another old painting

This is one of the paintings from the Theatre of Life series. It was done for the gallery market.

Theatre of Life: Chess Game, 2000, oil on canvas, 80x60 cm,  private collection

Oldies

While preparing the material for my upcoming book The Art of Petar Meseldzija I came across the files of many old paintings. Because the paintings have been sold, I haven't seen them for many years. Nor have I looked at the hi-res files for quite some time. Therefore it's been nice to see all these images again and to recollect the memories attached to their making and their subsequent life. Below you can see one of the oldies.
The book is progressing well, in fact much of it is already finished, and it is now definite that it will come out in august.

 

 

Family portrait

More than 10 years ago I was commissioned to paint a few family portraits. Here is one of them and it’s my favorite one :-)

 

Oil on canvas, 70 X 100 cm, 2002

 

Little paintings

Here are two little paintings that I recently finished. First is my MicroVisions piece which I call “Frightened Monster”. The second painting, named “Night Knight”, was done for a quilt project. Both paintings will be auctioned (the Knight painting as a part of the quilt) and the money will go to the student scholarships.

Sometimes I wish these kind of scholarship projects existed when I was a student, so that I could at least buy a proper oil paint, instead of having to use the cheap little tubes of oil color manufactured in China, that I used to buy in Prague, Czech Republic. But on the other hand, I often wonder if better circumstances and more stimulating surroundings would help me become a better artist…well, maybe…I don’t know. It’s also true that when things get tough, we get to know our deeper Self and often get better and tougher, for if you are not tough enough and always need somebody or something to lean on, despite of all your great talents, you might not make it as an artist. In my opinion talent and skill need to be accompanied by a set of other qualities within the personality that have nothing to do directly with the artistic abilities, things like perseverance, courage, a certain amount of boldness and even stubbornness. One does not develop these qualities if the surroundings are too supportive. On the other side, the lack of support can have a devastating impact on the psyche, as we all know.

Anyway, that Chinese oil paint from Czech Republic was not that bad after all. At least it had a very pleasant and natural smell that stayed with me forever, and that I still associate with good old days marked by happy enthusiasm, blessed lack of life and professional experience and above all my burning love affair with painting.



Frightened Monster



Night Knight

 

Head studies

Every now and then, when I find time, I work on my book about Giants. Here are the head studies of  a few rather normal-looking fellows.

 

Silly figure

One evening, after a long, tiring day of "serious" painting, I wanted to relax a bit, so I took a pencil and a piece of paper and drew this silly figure. After it was finished, I went downstairs to watch the TV with my wife.