Old Masters Academy

How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials

Old Masters Academy

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It is very rare that I spend a day without drawing

Artwork by Francisco Bordon

I’m 59 years old and I live on an island in Gran Canaria, I’m an art lover, art for me is the way to communicate, here are not many opportunities to study good art.

I always had a pencil in my hand, it is very rare that I spend a day without drawing, I always go out with a blog, a pencil and a pen and as soon as I have time I draw a picture.

I spent part of my childhood drawing on my own, I didn’t have an art teacher at the time, later I was in an academy where classical realism wasn’t studied. I have developed my painting skills on my own. …

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Old Masters New Visions

Artwork by Vanessa Letih

I am a 31 year old female from New Zealand.
I have always been an artist like all children and I loved to paint and draw, the things is then I just never stopped when I got older.
It is a way I can express myself and is a form of visual language. A blank canvas is an opportunity to ask myself what is it that I want to say?…

…The Old Masters Academy course looks to be what I have been searching for as it covers so many of the skills I have been wanting to learn.There are many online courses on offer in art, but I have yet to find one that stood out as much as this one. The courses look very structured and easy to follow. I think anyone who was to do one of these courses would benefit greatly. …

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Lifelong artist, first time oil painter

Artwork by Paul Potts

This last Fall, I took my first ever oil painting class at a local art school. It was a beginning oil painting class. Like from the basics. I thought, “Still, it is dedicated time to paint every week.” I knew most of the information related to the color wheel and composition from school and the use of acrylics my whole life from 7 years old. So, when we started painting, almost everyone in the class came over to me and said, “What are you doing here. You are not a beginner.” I explained that I wanted to learn how to use oil mediums and what causes the paint to dry faster and how to varnish correctly after I’m done. …

…I have been doing a painting every week since I started that class. …

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I would love to be a student here

Artwork by Inger Lise W Teichmann

It is when I draw or paint, time dissolves and become non-existing. It was always like that, because as a little girl, I had to be quiet because my mother was ill. As I never found my way in life, I thought this was not my path. Even getting the best grades in art classes, or applying for art schools didn’t convince me do to my lack of self confidence. I thought I wasn’t good enough. …

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I would like to paint like Leonardo, Michelangelo and Rafael

Artwork by Matilda

For so many years I have desperate need and will to learn how Old masters were painting. It is such a secret for me and today, unfortunately, nobody have a will to teach you that techniques in that way like you can teach me on your Old Masters Academy course. So I really wish to won this competition to become a complete artist, improve my skills and above all, to show my little son that I can paint like a ‘real’ painter in oil. He still doesn’t believe me! …