How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials
One of my favorite courses was oil painting. I liked painting with oil because you can easily mend your mistakes and even start painting on the same canvas all over again.…
Still I believe that portrait painting in oils like old masters would be a wonderful challenge. …
… My artistic challenges are to learn how to paint realistically, but in a loose and imaginative manner. I adore the artwork of the male and female Old Masters. They were the pioneering trail blazers of art and made such innovative discoveries in art techniques. The way they painted takes my breath away! I want to learn about all their art techniques! I want to know about their colour theory, how they mixed colours effectively, their different layering techniques, and how they painted human skin, hair, clothing, animal fur, bird feathers, and water realistically using modern materials. I want to paint portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and paint images that I see in my imagination using the painting techniques of the Old Masters. …
… The Renaissance was a period in history that interests me a lot. I admire the skills and painting techniques that artists of that era had. These artists were able to display subtle lights, details, movements and emotions and even create an unbelievable atmosphere within their paintings. Antiquity in paintings of Sandro Botticelli specifically warms my heart. I hope that with the help of the Old Masters Academy course, I will be able to recreate some of his paintings to the best of my ability. I always had a big dream of attending a Fine Art School and learn from master artists, but never did because of the obstacles in my life. …
… Improving art skills is not a project, it is a life-long process. Even the best artists never stop learning. Every step I take significantly determines the future of my personality.
I am sure, I will study the almost forgotten painting techniques of the Old Masters. As I read about the course, this curriculum is designed as a complete step-by-step system of both theoretical and practical knowledge from art vocabulary and art materials to how to paint like the old masters using modern materials. I will get constructive critique of my artwork by the tutor. This is the best art learning experience you can have without leaving your home. …
… I want to learn how to paint what I see but also to paint some ideas, I have wrote several poems that I wish I can paint, those images does not exist in reality but I want them to become real.
Art is allowing me say things I cannot say or would not say, it let me study the things at my surroundings, it has taught me how to look, see and appreciate some things, it has given me a different concept of beauty. …
… I think Old Masters Academy is a great place to learn, the intro videos and thematic lists suggests so, also there are hundreds of online reviews recommending this amazing course.
Hello I’m Daniele from Italy, 67 years old, I’m a graphic designer and professional photographer, worked all my life in advertising, communication and teaching computer graphics for Apple Computer and for the most important publishing company here in Italy. …
… Few years ago I discovered, Old Masters Academy and finally found what I needed. Now I teach also how to paint and I always suggest to enrol in your classes coz so many information can be learned as well.
I think the course is really good and complete and can can help anyone, even professional painters can learn new and important techniques and information. I like to paint in old masters style, and I love to make copy of their artwork and now with your classes I can enjoy painting a lot .…
