Old Masters Academy

Old Masters Academy review by Maria Oliynyk

Before and After by an Old Masters Academy student

I studied painting in Kharkiv. I painted and drew well in academic style. I painted in separate brushstrokes in the manner of Repin and Sargent. But when I was a student and afterwards, I had never come across any teacher who would teach me how to paint like the Old Masters. I could copy Old Masters’ works in museums, but it was always a copy made in rough brushstrokes. I tried to do sfumato by smoothing the paint on the canvas, but it was ALWAYS simply a simulation of the Old Masters — I could never achieve their real effects.

I’m attaching my student’s artwork, which is very academic and not “Old Mastery” at all as I would like it to be. …

Making the vision into reality

Artwork by Liebner-Anthony Van Zyl

Liebner-Anthony Van Zyl’s work is beautifully put together with the use of thick and short brush strokes. It creates a unique experience with the approach of emotion and logic.

Since You Went To Heaven

Artwork by Lillasmom

My life completely changed last June, when my lovely, lovable, beautiful, beloved daughter went to Heaven… Since then I started to paint. My PAINtings are a piece of me and, I hope, they represent and spread the unconditional love, kindness, beauty, patience, and courage she represents. Without painting I would be submerged by pain.…

Big love for painting

Artwork by Mahnaz Sadat Akbari

Art Competition Winners – Spring 2019

Thank You!

Big thanks to all Old Masters Academy Art Competition participants and voters!

In nominating the winners, we considered how many votes they have received from other people.

And the Winners are:

The woman who didn’t know she could become a painter!

Artwork by Cath Stevens

I am a very happy French woman of 55 years old. I am an accountant in my husband’s real estate business. I have 3 children, a 28 years old son and twins, 24 years old daughter and boy.

For the past two years, I have participated in competitions and exhibitions. I won several awards and sold some of my work. It encourages me a lot to continue to progress. Now, I would like to learn how to make portraits and study composition in paintings.
I discovered Old Masters Academy on Instagram. What Natalie Richy does is exactly what I like. I am very admirative. …

Old Masters Academy Review by Johann Krammer

Hello, my name is Johann Krammer.

I started painting in oils a few years ago and quickly realized that to learn classical painting I need good instructions from professional art teachers and artists.

So, I became a student of the online video course – Old Masters Academy™

This course is exactly what I was looking for. It is packed with so useful information about oil painting materials, color theory, traditional painting techniques, video lessons on how to paint like the Old Masters staring with preparing of a canvas, imprimatura and underpainting, building-up colors and finishing with glazing and varnishing…

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A new “old master” is about to born

Artwork by Diego Rafael López Castillo

… I work hard and prepare myself daily because I wish to become a great master!!

Art is very important in my life. Art has changed my life dramatically, it has made me feel fulfilled.
I can not live a day without touching a pencil and drawing a picture, when I worked in the industrial zone of my city my hands shout me to do art.

My challenges is learn the old master techniques to make it mine and with that resources has the possibility to generate a new visual style and a new technique. As I commented I wish to become a great master and how they once did it change the history of art. As well I want to paint in new contemporary, and also nationalists themes with yours methods (like Rembrandt, Velázquez, Turner, Delacroix or Gericault). …

My way through art

Artwork by Erick

Born in Somoto, County of Madriz, Nicaragua Central America.
My father Cesar Octavio and my grandmother Ana Maria taught me the appreciation and passion for fine art and my son Jose Alejandro and Eliezer David are my daily inspiration. …

We live for Art !

Artwork by Yorgos Moses

After a lifetime living and working in an office environment, I took the big step a few years ago to resign and dedicate myself entirely to what I was in love with since I was a young child: drawing and painting…

… While I was working in my day to day job I was spending all my ‘pocket money’ on art books and especially books on the old masters: the Venetians, the renaissance guys, the flemish masters, etc. I was reading and consuming information on their lives, their art making, their environment and whenever possible, their technique. I was mesmerized and impressed on how dedicated their whole life was on their art and how much discipline they had on improving their draftsmanship…Anyway the amazing pieces of art they left for us and which is a feast for our eyes, is a living proof of that dedication. …