Old Masters Academy

How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials

Old Masters Academy

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Go for oil – might be the right time for me

Artwork by Burkhard Leitner

I was painting since I was a child, with crayons, watercolors, pencils and everything else. With 14 I tried to enroll at artschool, but they refused me. So I turned away from drawing and painting for about 10 years.

Then I startet again and taught myself and learned from books and magazins. Watercolors and acrylics on canvas were and are my favourite materials, some attempts I made with digital painting on a drawing tablet, but it is not like painting with brushes and real colours.

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I would like to paint like the old masters

Artwork by Sallie Day Mogerman

My older sister was our family artist. Thinking (erroneously) that there could be only one per family, I spent my youth pursuing Literature. While Dortha was studying portrait painting with a master portraitist I was striving for a Masters in English Lit. But when I saw the beautiful paintings she was producing, I thought, “Hey, I can do that!” …

For the past 15 years, I have been painting portraits at the Foundry Art Centre in Saint Charles, Missouri. But I am rarely satisfied with my work. I want to produce something better. I would like to paint like the old masters.

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Learning and improving myself is never ending story

Artwork by Monika Mirella Bielinska

Hi! My name is Monika. I live in Poland, in small town near the Baltic sea. I love coffee, classical music, learn how to play classical guitar and absolutely love to crochet. Also I can sew so from time to time I sew new skirts for me and my Mama. …

… I would like to win the Old Masters Academy™ course because I want to teach in future. This is great opportunity to grow better painters in future. Maybe I could establish my own art school. …

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I am passionate about painting

Artwork by Diana Licon

I have been painting for a number of years exploring a variety of mediums and styles. Art is healing for me through many instances in my life, including the drowning death of my only child. I do not have a child to leave behind, but can create artistic “children” that may last for hundreds of years.

I currently work in both oils and acrylic. I am exploring impasto techniques and have read that the old masters have explored and incorporated impasto in their work. I believe that Rembrandt, Titan and Rubens are a few who found value in this technique. I would like to learn more about this topic too. …

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Becoming a Painter

Artwork by Janice Heligman

I have been an artist in some capacity or other for most of my 62 years. I have been creating since I was a small child.

Art is the biggest part of my life now that my children have grown and moved away.

I need to learn the proper way of layering paint so to create deeper, richer paintings. Your classes look so interesting to me and the students who post obviously have learned a great deal from them. I want to win the Old Masters Academy course so that I too may be a student who can post her paintings in a testament to your class. …