How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials
Péter Somlyai is my name. I was born in 1955 Nagykőrös in Hungary where I live today.
I learned as a carpenter. Later I developed my skills in art. The art took important part in my job in my entire life. I needed to apply that everyday.
I’d like widening and deepening my skills. I like the Classicist style but I’m especially interested in with Renaissance and Baroque.
I think the Old Masters Academy offers an opportunity for me to learn new topics. …
I fell in love with art, and especially painting when I took a humanities class in High School. I tried painting but wasn’t able to afford lessons, and got frustrated. I spent the next 50 years doing Photography instead. I kept trying to make my photos look like paintings.
Finally, when I retired just over a year ago, even though I still had to work another year, I decided to pursue painting seriously. I am in love with painting. Now that I have left the world of working for wages, I am in serious pursuit of producing great art.
These days, there are so many instructional videos available, and I consumed many of them. It made me feel like I can paint ok, and my work is ok, but I’m feeling like I am missing a solid technical background. That is why I would love to win the Old Master’s course.
Not having technical training is like learning a song on a guitar without learning about music. You will always be limited and fall short in some area. I need the information and discipline. …
My name is Asma and I am currently learning Fine Arts In National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan and I have a strong ambition to learn the traditional and contemporary forms of art.
One of my Artistic Challenges is learning to draw “Still life’ as nothing is truly more difficult than simply drawing from pure observation. I hope to learn many things in terms of Art such as Digital Painting, Animation, Water colors and Miniature Art which is scarce.
The Old Masters Academy will help me to learn the basic foundation of Arts and in order to become a great artist one must seek to learn that of the old Masters such as Michelangelo and Albrecht Dürer one of my favorite artists, meaning one must learn “how to draw”. …
For years I have been an art director for the major record labels and have had a great platform to show my art. At the beginning of the year I left that career to take the year to travel the world and just paint/draw every day. These have been the most content and fulfilling months of my life – being able to create solely for myself.
I will now be taking my chances as a full time painter and it is a really exciting venture. …
… I spent 4 years at an art academy earning a bachelor of fine arts degree – where I learned nothing. It was a structure built to collect money and not create art. My goal is not to make money, my friends say that I’m allergic to it, I just want to create art for personal therapy and share it with the world who may find their own therapy in it. …
Immersed in art from a childhood. I am practicing to move ever forward to create a more creative and unique style. I hope to win the Old Masters Academy course so it will help me to be more accomplished.
I have been very attached to artwork working actively on my own art pieces. I would love this course to get me back on track since I drift away from my work from time to time and would prefer to work at a course that would keep me actively engaged. I get distracted by life’s challenges finding it difficult to keep focused. …
My name is Wiona, I am a mother of three beautiful children and love to find quirky and funny things in life to laugh about! My husband and I make silly pun jokes all the time and this painting represents a typical South African dish “Pap en Wors” or Sausage and Mash. The seriousness of the Sausage dog looking regally comfortable in his spot makes me smile every time I see it, and I hope others will too!
The techniques taught by the Old Masters Academy course will definitely enhance my paintings and help develop my style.
I would love to win the Old Masters Academy course because I will have access to the best teachers and be able to learn while I am at home with my kids. I also want them to develop a love for painting and art as I have! …
