Old Masters Academy

How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials

Old Masters Academy

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Steps of portrait painting

Painting process by Shashi Hemant

Hello,

I am fascinated with the Old Masters art and have enrolled in this online course to learn how to use painting techniques that are not taught in contemporary art colleges.

The information I found in the Old Masters Academy video lessons is very helpful. I watch every video several times and every time i find new things to learn.

My challenge in portrait painting is to achieve likeness of a person I’m portraying and capture the expression especially when I paint people I know personally.

This is a portrait of my husband. It is the fastest one I ever created – it took me five days and I’m glad with results.

Thank you for making the Old Masters Academy course for students like me; I am learning here a lot!

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I’d like to be more efficient in painting

Artwork by Patrick Shields

I’m an artist that likes to create whatever I’m feeling like. I have a multitude of “styles” if you will, though I look at it like I’m just creating whatever I want. Art takes me to an energized state of imagination while I’m “conjuring,” and a contemplative state (most of the time) while I’m working. That old 1% inspiration and 99% prespiration thing.

I like the feeling I get when I complete a piece and now have something in the world that represents my own vision.

Some of my artistic challenges are, what I consider, a need to streamline my process. I really just mess around until I feel it’s done. I’d like to be more efficient. I also wish I could keep the “whole picture” in my mind as I’m working instead of focussing on one little bit at a time. I like when I see an artist work up a piece section by section whereas I tend to address the whole work with the one thing I’m dealing with at that time, such as highlights/glazing/etc. Though I remember one of Odd Nerdrum’s students saying that he repainted a figure’s arm about 6 times! I guess I’d like to learn how to proceed methodically through a painting without having to redo so much of it. …

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Story from Linda Duckworth, Old Masters Academy student

I have been in love with drawing and painting since I was a child but majored in science and worked in the nuclear industry for nearly 30 years – only painting when between jobs.

I retired a few years ago due to health reasons and now paint when I physically able, generally pinky a few days a week and inky a few hours at a time. …

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I would like to be able to better realize my ideas

Painting by Erick Carrazco

I am a self-taught painter, I strive to learn every day the technique of the old masters of the Renaissance.

Art is for me, it is the breath of life that makes me envelop every day in a heavenly spirit.

My great artistic challenge is to achieve with my paintings that people change for the good, that those people who are suffering, find in my art spiritual happiness.

With art I want to learn to carry messages of love and peace to all human beings, especially the most needy. …

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Story from Elise Johns, Old Masters Academy student

The only thing I knew about watercolor was which end of the brush to wet

I didn’t know I could even draw, much less paint, until I was 55 years old.

I have known some successes, raising children alone, starting and running an ad agency for 10 years, owning a quilt shop and so on. My main hobbies/interests enduring throughout my life have been needlework, history/genealogy, and in-depth study of the Bible and Hebrew. I have achieved Master level of Fine Hand Embroidery, specializing in White on White from the 18th – 19th century. I have traced our family back to William the Conquerer and discovered amazing accomplishments of my forefathers. I taught people how the study the Bible for 20 years (classes at night and weekend workshops) and taught myself to read Hebrew and even speak it.

And yet, I didn’t think I was really good at anything and often wondered why I didn’t have a gift, a talent. There has always been a part of me looking for “something” that was missing in my life. …

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I have been interested in Art for as long as I can recall

Artwork by Lora

I have been interested in Art for as long as I can recall. Yearning to attend Art school however and unfortunately I didn’t have the opportunity. Therefore I would be so grateful if I could do this course. I have been painting for ever and need the professional guidance.

I am grateful for what I have and grateful for what I don’t have. I am a Chinese astrologist and numerologist. Interested in the unknown …