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I do enjoy my work, but art is my passion
Artwork by Sunil Joseph
My name is Sunil. Currently working as a telecommunications engineer. I do enjoy my work, but art is my passion. A friend once told me that one needs to follow one’s dream, passion, anything that makes one feel at bliss Art is one thing that makes feel at bliss, never realizing how much time has passed.
Having two kids, one just a year old, it is challenging at times to get time to sit and complete a drawing or sketch at one go. Thankfully, I have friends request me to do a piece of art or I ask them what they would like me to do for them. While I don’t have a deadline, it helps me stay focused and build on God’s gift in a small way.
I mostly did pencil sketches and wanted to learn oil painting. …
I would like to draw like the old masters!
Artwork by Inna Ustinova
I was born in a Russian family at Klaipeda, Lithuania on 29 Mars 1968. I live in Norway now.
Art is a continuously surprising beauty.. It’s a magic with supernatural forces…
To learn to draw exactly what I see and I think could be a greatest thing in my life.
I would like to learn to draw like old masters did because it will give me more freedom to draw. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo are always best examples of classical art to me and to the world. …
I look at the artworks through colours and varnish layers
Artwork by Agnieszka Kossowska
Art affected my life since I was a child. I was very lucky to be born in Krakow, the wonderful city which made me appreciate Art even more because of its history and charm.
I left my hometown to work in Italy, where Art is literally everywhere. I spent 15 years restoring paintings and I had the chance to give new life to many marvellous masterpieces; this experience taught me how to look at the artworks through colours and varnish layers. At the moment I am dealing with some lost or damaged illuminated pages of manuscripts and I am trying to reconstruct the mutilated ones. In order to do this, I had to refresh my studies of the artistic techniques of the past.
I am also really passionate about the Old Masters and I am wishing to know their fundamentals and their secrets because I think it’s important not to forget them. …
I liked painting and drawing since I was a child
Artwork by José Castillo
I am Venezuelan. Since I was a child I liked painting and drawing, during my school studies. I was pleasantly surprised by the artistic education, a subject that is given in the baccalaureate of our country, when leaving high school.
I studied chemical technology and I dedicated myself to my profession as a means of sustenance, leaving aside the call of art until in 2006 I met the Venezuelan painter Feliciano Carballo, national painting award in 1966. The approach to his art aroused the interest to start drawing and painting. The story that expresses in its magical jungles attracted the attention. So much was the motivation that I went directly to buy materials to paint. I began to search the Internet and bought some books, making progress in my knowledge.
I began painting still-lives and landscapes, then I became interested in portraits, a subject that is very difficult for me to handle and I get frustrated when I see that the finished work does not fill me completely.
One day I met the old masters academy and I realized without a doubt, the effectiveness of the teaching methods applied by this academy and how much I still need to learn. …
I could not wait to start my lifelong dream – art classes
Artwork by Mathilda Kamper
When I retired after teaching for 40 years, it was as if the gates of freedom opened for me. To teach was my passion (History) and I enjoyed every minute of it, but it is an absorbing profession that do not allow any other personal activities.
When I closed my classroom in 2014, I could not wait to start my lifelong dream – art classes. It became my new passion, but it was challenging as I did not have any tuition in the basic theory, let alone mixing of paint, etc., etc. The tutors are well educated in the fine arts, and they were very patient. I am thankful for their input..
The reason why I think it is necessary to do the Old Masters course, is because it will provide a solid foundation for any artist. They are the best to learn from! . …
I wanted to be an artist for as long as I could remember
Artwork by Len Jagoda
… Finally an artist. Once the commitment was made, the passion and desire returned. Knowing that the absence of formal art training would never be totally overcome; I decided to build a foundation with sculpture and drawing. Form, shapes and values, but no color, not yet. After a little over a year of this self imposed limitation a level of self satisfaction was achieved and it was time to add color. I wanted to paint in oils but felt intimidated by the medium and the lack of education.
I made the decision to work in pastels first to get the feel of colors and how to use them. Working in pastels began around 2009 and I eventually realized a level of proficiency with that medium. I believed that I was ready for oils. I started working in oils (part-time) four years ago and now realize how much more the lack of training impacts on someone using this medium. I am self taught in sculpture and pastels but have taken a few workshops in oil painting. Those workshops help, but so much is missing in fundamentals which is costing time, and preventing me from reaching an acceptable standard. I need to fill the education void. …
