Art Competition Archive

I realized I needed to learn how to draw first…

Artwork by Sonia M. Conrad

I am almost 60 years old, from El Salvador, came to this country in 1976 and became a nurse. I have devoted my life to caring for others, 22 years caring for the elderly and will be 15 years in July working for the hospital Home Health. I always loved art, going to museums, galleries, and wished I could do that too. While I drove from patient to patient through mountains, hills, rivers, creeks, woods, I took many pictures of what I wanted to paint one day!.

My son gave me a watercolor kit, I started using it and realized I needed to learn how to draw first, eventhough my desire to paint is greater that I just go for it. …

I paint each day and sketch each evening

Artwork by Paul Ward

I started taking my art seriously when I turned 40. …

To learn even half the information that the classical painters understood as a basic without having the cost of attending an ateliar would be great. This is where Old Masters Academy TM come in. This seems to be the only real course that has structure and has content that is going to deliver on teaching how to paint like the old masters. If I could win this course it would be amazing to gain all this knowledge!

I have been drawing and painting most of my life

Artwork by Charles Grissom

I am 72 years old and know it’s never too late to learn. I have been drawing and painting most of my life so art plays a major roll, especially now that I am retired. I am mostly self-taught.

In the 70’s I was fortunate to be living in Manhattan and I attended Art Students League taking drawing and painting classes for a few months. I was married and had two little girls and a great wife that helped me by working extra so I could pursue my art. Fearing I would never be good enough I abandoned my dream. …

I have a passion for drawing and painting

Artwork by Peta WILLIAMS

How to start is always a challenge whether it be the first step up to a blank canvas or placing a pen upon a clean blank page.
I am an Australian living in Sydney and apart from our catastrophic fires at moment I have a passion for drawing and painting. …

I would appreciate an opportunity to study at Old Masters Academy as it would refine my technique. I would be honoured people should vote for me because I am obsessed with art with learning and with perfecting my capabilities.

Go for oil – might be the right time for me

Artwork by Burkhard Leitner

I was painting since I was a child, with crayons, watercolors, pencils and everything else. With 14 I tried to enroll at artschool, but they refused me. So I turned away from drawing and painting for about 10 years.

Then I startet again and taught myself and learned from books and magazins. Watercolors and acrylics on canvas were and are my favourite materials, some attempts I made with digital painting on a drawing tablet, but it is not like painting with brushes and real colours.

I would like to paint like the old masters

Artwork by Sallie Day Mogerman

My older sister was our family artist. Thinking (erroneously) that there could be only one per family, I spent my youth pursuing Literature. While Dortha was studying portrait painting with a master portraitist I was striving for a Masters in English Lit. But when I saw the beautiful paintings she was producing, I thought, “Hey, I can do that!” …

For the past 15 years, I have been painting portraits at the Foundry Art Centre in Saint Charles, Missouri. But I am rarely satisfied with my work. I want to produce something better. I would like to paint like the old masters.

how-to-draw-paint-how old masters did their paintings

Learning and improving myself is never ending story

Artwork by Monika Mirella Bielinska

Hi! My name is Monika. I live in Poland, in small town near the Baltic sea. I love coffee, classical music, learn how to play classical guitar and absolutely love to crochet. Also I can sew so from time to time I sew new skirts for me and my Mama. …

… I would like to win the Old Masters Academy™ course because I want to teach in future. This is great opportunity to grow better painters in future. Maybe I could establish my own art school. …

I am passionate about painting

Artwork by Diana Licon

I have been painting for a number of years exploring a variety of mediums and styles. Art is healing for me through many instances in my life, including the drowning death of my only child. I do not have a child to leave behind, but can create artistic “children” that may last for hundreds of years.

I currently work in both oils and acrylic. I am exploring impasto techniques and have read that the old masters have explored and incorporated impasto in their work. I believe that Rembrandt, Titan and Rubens are a few who found value in this technique. I would like to learn more about this topic too. …

Becoming a Painter

Artwork by Janice Heligman

I have been an artist in some capacity or other for most of my 62 years. I have been creating since I was a small child.

Art is the biggest part of my life now that my children have grown and moved away.

I need to learn the proper way of layering paint so to create deeper, richer paintings. Your classes look so interesting to me and the students who post obviously have learned a great deal from them. I want to win the Old Masters Academy course so that I too may be a student who can post her paintings in a testament to your class. …

Real master

Artwork by Hans Mozer

… My home is my workshop. My living room is 30m2 also packed with paintings and my 4 studio easels. So i work at 6-8 paintings at the same time. 2 easels are handmade by me. In the summer i can work in my garden.

All i’m missing now is the technic to lift my work to a next level.

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