Old Masters Academy

How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials

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Nostalgic whipped cream memories

Artwork by Marianne Schilstra

My name is Marianne Schilstra, 53 years of age, married with a farmer and I live in the northern part of The Netherlands. Since my childhood, I like drawing and painting. But due to life circumstances, there was not always time for it and I was’t allowed to join the Art Academy by my parents unfortunately.

I’d like to learn more skills like painting how the Old Masters did it.
I really love your painting and drawing academy and the way you teach art online. And who wouldn’t want to get a chance to win this wonderful Old Masters course. …

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I am prepared to commit every available moment to my art

After years of putting my artistic pursuits aside and working to provide a comfortable home and lifestyle for my family, it is now my turn to return to those dreams and develop a strong artistic position within the world of Artists. …

I aim to learn and promote the traditional classical style of painting to a high degree as I feel this skill has been lost over the past 150 years or so. I want to lead the way in realist painting and teach upcoming artists there is more to true art than throwing paint at a canvas and making up a story to suit the result of the splattered paint on the canvas.

From what I can gather, the Old Masters Academy is what the world needs now to bring reality (and Realism) back. …

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The eternal student and the professional artist

Artwork by Guy Perl

… During my degree, after two years I started to get frustrated when I realized I just don’t have enough tools in the university to express myself. I wanted to learn more about old masters academic technique and to become a a figurative realistic artist. I started to read a lot of technique books from the library, study anatomy and color theory and purchasing instructional videos of artists. …

Old Master Academy methodology have always fascinated me. I would like to win the membership so I can study more. Please vote for me.

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Please help!

Artwork by Gina Faulk

I have been a professional artist for 35 years but am self taught and paintings take me hundreds of hours to complete a 40×60” painting. It is because I don’t know what I am doing. I desperately want to learn tips, tricks and techniques to make me a more prolific and accomplished artist.

I really need to get enough pieces to have a show. Since I have been painting and creating for clients for so many years I have very few pieces that are mine. Maybe one or two. I take care of my aging mother and have little time to paint.…

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My day doesn’t feel complete unless I’ve done something with my art

Artwork by Francine Proulx Harvey

I’m a 67 year old mother of 5 children with 13 grandchildren who didn’t start painting till around 50 because life was just too busy with our dairy farm, kids and parents. For years, I saved a picture of my husband with our third daughter in his arms, with the intention of learning how to paint it…but the problem was that it took 5 years to find someone who could teach me portraiture! …

My challenges I think are with color choice and the struggle to see tones better and is therefore what I want to learn from this course. I believe the Old Masters Academy teaches the correct way to paint and is necessary to acquire to become whatever kind of artist you might choose to be afterwards… it’s the best foundation in my view.

I want to win because I want to prove that age makes no difference and that passion has no boundaries. …

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I always had a pencil or brush in my hand

Artwork by Eleanore Ditchburn

Painting has been at the heart of my creative practice since I was young, I always had a pencil or brush in my hand and find it an important way to express feelings to other people. I am at my happiest when I am in front of the easel making beautiful pieces of work in my small studio space.

My aim is to learn the classical painting process which is not fashionable in contemporary art education and to use the knowledge to promote the artisan craft of fine art painting through my passion and knowledge gained.