I have been a student of Drawing Academy, and when Natalie Richy announced the Old Masters Academy launch, I knew it must be something very good. What I experienced in this course has surpassed all my expectations. …
Paintings by Edward J Merrell
Artist engineer
I am a retired engineer who had a hidden interest in art and can now let it come to the fore.
I paint in oils several times per week and try to improve my ability. Being rather conservative, I appreciate the art of the old masters particularly Vermeer whose paintings I love to copy. …
-Oil Painting by Saida
I still dreaming about learning more and more about art
My name is Saida, I am from Morocco, I grew up in a sober city Marrakech, full of colors and art.
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. …
Oil Paintings by Patricia Melanie Beauchamp
Painting my way to recovery…
Once upon a time, a young happy athletic girl found herself with a narrow existence struggling with a chronic pain from my head to my toes throughout her life. In 2013 a diagnosis of Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS). This autoimmune disease is a type of arthritis of the spine. No cure, but at least I had confirmation. I am still determined and optimistic. There is always light at the end of my road, field of trees or even darkness.
Everyday my hope was that my words, actions and my creative self will encourage the observer to seek a moment of kindness and reflection each and every day of our lives through my art.
One day I found a surgeon to fix the mechanical defect in my back. After many years, it felt foreign yet holding a paint brush in my hand.
Because of that desire to create no matter what obstacle.
My own art became my physical therapy for my hand, arm and back during that first recovery. …
-Painting by Erick Carrazco
My way to art
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. …
A copy of Jan Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring by Sergej Karetnikov
An realist artist with modernist background
As a realist artist with modernist background, I use some parts of contemporary concepts even in my classical realist works. Usually I am working on Plain-Air and basically paint what I see but I do many works linking my realistic interpretations to other trends of today.
Art for me is a way to create beauty. Beauty on canvas of course, but more important create beauty in real life.
My artictic chellenges is to study old masters technique and create beautiful art works with modern spirit. …
