How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials
This is an old painting. I painted it two years ago as a gift to my daughter, who is depicted together with her newborn.
I must admit I do not have enough discipline to do all the exercises from the Old Masters Academy course. I skipped some of the exercises on color theory — I wanted to paint my children and grandchildren straight away — that’s why I started from painting technique lessons. …
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Big thanks to all Old Masters Academy Art Competition participants and voters!
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When I saw Vermeer’s girl for the first time on my travel to Europe, in summer 2014, I promised myself I would have this painting in my possession. As there is no chance to get the original, obviously, I decided to make an exact copy of it. …
… In this course, I have learned so many new things about oil painting techniques that were never mentioned during all that time I spent in an art college. My college teachers never told me about imprimatura, dead colors, glazings… I wonder if they knew these things. …
… I come from a small village in Poland. I was born and raised there and moved to states when I was 15. The only thing I knew was school and farm work for the first 15 years of my life. Not very exciting but at the same time I learned a lot about life and hard work at very young age.
I always loved to doddle, never thought of myself as an artist and I still don’t. Like they say: “We are our own worst critics”. I picked up a paint brush for the first time when I was about 30 and only been painting for 8 years. …
I am a young artist that wishes to take part in the competition. I draw and paint for a living and want to learn more from the Old Masters Academy , the Drawing Academy was very helpful and I can Imagine how this one would be.
I mostly paint portraits, but cannot wait to try to paint still-lifes and landscapes. The most interesting thing in the Old Masters Academy painting I think is the amount of information: history, techniques, artworks, time spent on lessons that makes this course so great. …
… Although I still consider myself a beginner, I already like my portraits done in techniques I learned from the lessons in the Old Masters Academy course.
There is a long road in front of me — my aim is to reach the level of mastery I see in paintings of the Old Masters.
In theory, I understand all instructional lessons from the Old Masters Academy, but I feel that I still lack practice—that’s why I can’t paint on canvas what I imagine, however theoretically I understand how to do it. …
