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Big thanks to all Summer 2025 Old Masters Academy Art Competition participants and voters!
In nominating a winner, we considered how many votes participants have received from other people.
How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials
Big thanks to all Summer 2025 Old Masters Academy Art Competition participants and voters!
In nominating a winner, we considered how many votes participants have received from other people.
Please vote for me by sharing this page: Artwork by Lois Black I am pursuing a life as an artist in a new medium. I’ve been an artist all along, but I was chasing a life as a dancer, then as a dance teacher, and now as a painter of dancers. To me they are […]
I have been getting emails from Old Masters Academy for a number of years now. I have just kept painting, doing the one thing in life that has meaning to me and is my escape from my daily life as a carer. I started portrait painting about a year ago, and know I need to improve my application and master techniques that I know Old Masters Art Academy teaches. I am in my latter years of life 74, but I believe you can never stop learning and one can paint right up to their end days.
My name is Tayabah Hana, and I am an aspiring artist who mainly works in drawing and watercolour painting. For me, art is a way to process emotions and experiences that I sometimes can’t express in words. When I draw or paint, I feel connected to something bigger—a sense of possibility and discovery.
Hey, I’m a 20-year-old student who finds beauty to be the greatest muse. I deliberately seek inspiration in nature, people, music, and everything else that holds beauty. Over time, I’ve become very sensitive to it.
Art is everywhere—for those with eyes to see it. I believe the purpose of life is to create, and there’s art in that: in creation. …
I have been painting for my entire life, especially animals and people. But having no art education, I need to learn good painting skills.