Old Masters Academy

Artwork by Ada

To the path of my primary school which was in an old and traditional quarter of ancient city. All the old Alleys, the colors of the walls, people all fascinated me. I started by drawing with simple supplies and simple knowledge.

But not having much encouragement from my parents, who were interested in completing my traditional education like other children of the family. But this behavior strengthened me and prompted me to learn drawing and painting my self.

Artwork by Alan Contreras

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.

Artwork by Evelyn Johns Rivera

I started becoming interested in making art in grade school, when a teacher unexpectedly posted a pen drawing of two bears that I had made as an illustration to a story assignment. I had not thought of myself as someone capable of making art until that day. Since that day, I have got on with it in life, enjoying my day job and my family, always doing art. I always wished for the day that I had all the time in the world to focus on art, but that day has not yet come. I realized along the way, that even the “great” artists still had lives and that a balance is often needed between the two parts of this world.

I have always wanted to better myself as an artist. At first, raising children, I had little income to devote to it, so I continued to draw, and painted as I could afford it. I eventually went back to school to study art, joined a local painting cooperative, and colored pencil association, and learned to exhibit and sharpen my skills. When your life is always rooted in art, art has a way to live within it. …

Artwork by JORGE LAGUNES

Me llamo Jorge y tengo 56 años ,soy abogado y administro una oficina tiempo completo , estoy casado desde hace 27 años y tengo una extraordinaria familia .

El arte ocupa un lugar muy importante en mi vida, creo que es algo que me complementa y me hace apreciar la vida de una manera diferente

Mis principales desafíos artísticos son poder seguir aprendiendo técnicas nuevas y mejorando lo que ya hago para poder participar en exposiciones y que la gente sienta y disfrute lo que quiero transmitir cuando pinto. …

Artwork by Diana Berrón

I have no memory, whatsoever, of my life before art. In my 35 years on this Earth, there has not been a day of boredom, my eyes have always been amazed by all images: features of faces, cast shadows, beams of light, the distinctive colors of human skin. More importantly, my curiosity has taken me to wonder about the matter and essence of all things, to try to decipher the story between every wrinkle, every freckle, every scar… what makes a person or thing so unique? …