Old Masters Academy

I’d like to be more efficient in painting

Artwork by Patrick Shields

I’m an artist that likes to create whatever I’m feeling like. I have a multitude of “styles” if you will, though I look at it like I’m just creating whatever I want. Art takes me to an energized state of imagination while I’m “conjuring,” and a contemplative state (most of the time) while I’m working. That old 1% inspiration and 99% prespiration thing.

I like the feeling I get when I complete a piece and now have something in the world that represents my own vision.

Some of my artistic challenges are, what I consider, a need to streamline my process. I really just mess around until I feel it’s done. I’d like to be more efficient. I also wish I could keep the “whole picture” in my mind as I’m working instead of focussing on one little bit at a time. I like when I see an artist work up a piece section by section whereas I tend to address the whole work with the one thing I’m dealing with at that time, such as highlights/glazing/etc. Though I remember one of Odd Nerdrum’s students saying that he repainted a figure’s arm about 6 times! I guess I’d like to learn how to proceed methodically through a painting without having to redo so much of it. …

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Story from Linda Duckworth, Old Masters Academy student

I have been in love with drawing and painting since I was a child but majored in science and worked in the nuclear industry for nearly 30 years – only painting when between jobs.

I retired a few years ago due to health reasons and now paint when I physically able, generally pinky a few days a week and inky a few hours at a time. …

I would like to be able to better realize my ideas

Painting by Erick Carrazco

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. …

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Story from Elise Johns, Old Masters Academy student

The only thing I knew about watercolor was which end of the brush to wet

I didn’t know I could even draw, much less paint, until I was 55 years old.

I have known some successes, raising children alone, starting and running an ad agency for 10 years, owning a quilt shop and so on. My main hobbies/interests enduring throughout my life have been needlework, history/genealogy, and in-depth study of the Bible and Hebrew. I have achieved Master level of Fine Hand Embroidery, specializing in White on White from the 18th – 19th century. I have traced our family back to William the Conquerer and discovered amazing accomplishments of my forefathers. I taught people how the study the Bible for 20 years (classes at night and weekend workshops) and taught myself to read Hebrew and even speak it.

And yet, I didn’t think I was really good at anything and often wondered why I didn’t have a gift, a talent. There has always been a part of me looking for “something” that was missing in my life. …

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I have been interested in Art for as long as I can recall

Artwork by Lora

I have been interested in Art for as long as I can recall. Yearning to attend Art school however and unfortunately I didn’t have the opportunity. Therefore I would be so grateful if I could do this course. I have been painting for ever and need the professional guidance.

I am grateful for what I have and grateful for what I don’t have. I am a Chinese astrologist and numerologist. Interested in the unknown …

This course can help me a lot!

Drawing by Sandra Alina

Hi, my name is Sandra Alina, I`m an art lover and I think that art expresses our inner reality.

For as long as I can remember I have had a pencil in my hand. I spent part of my childhood in a rural area of Romania. There was no art teacher or art classes at that time.

I have developed my drawing skills by myself and I have created my own world by drawing and painting every time I could. But I never found such good information and instruction before. …

Art Competition Winners – Autumn 2017

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: …

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I would LOVE to paint like the Old Masters

Paintings by Renate Pacheco

35 years ago I was a young aspiring artist. Life’s challenges got in the way and my passion for creating art was lost inside of me without a knowing of how to be released.

Over the last few years I attempted to create art in many different mediums. It was when I discovered oil painting that I felt as if I had come home. I can not describe the joy I feel when I am painting on a canvas with oil paints. The art is pouring out of me. All the years without creating seems to be coming out all at once.

I did attend art school for one year many, many years ago. Otherwise I am a self taught artist.
I want to improve upon my lighting and color mixing. …

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Art is my source of joy and hopefully my source of income

Artwork by Marco Cuenco

I am a young artist and I have just kick started my art career.

Modern art schools do not have proper techniques and I would love to learn the techniques in Old Masters Academy course. Art takes a serious place in my life, basically it is my everything.

My challenges are when people think that I am not a serious artist. I am also financially unstable and I cannot afford this course.

I struggle with proportion and anatomy. People enjoy my artworks but for me I am personally not happy with the outcome. I am simply having a hard time teaching myself. I want to learn the techniques of the Old Masters taught by Natalie Richy because I want to have a more expanded knowledge of art and I am a huge follower of Natalie. …

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I discovered my passion for painting

Paintings by Livio Pignalosa

My name’s Livio, I’m 29 years old and it’s about two years that I discovered my passion for painting.

I’m a musician, I study historical pianos in Conservatory of Perugia (ITA). My mother is an artist and thanks to her I’ve always breathe art since I was a child.

Art, in all of its forms, is the best way to communicate with yourself and the others, in my opinion.

As a self taught, I’ve began to paint without any instructions with acrylic colours, but now I paint in oil and make medium of my own. …

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