I’m a 52 year old mother of one and one fur baby. Married 26 years. …
… From what I see, Old Master’s Academy is brilliant at lifting people’s abilities to the next level and I would like to be the winner so I can also be helped to lift myself to the next level. …
… As a child, my biggest desire was to have a blackboard so that I could write and draw upon it. My interest in painting was given birth when one of my brothers brought home tubes of oil paint along with a brush picked up in a second hand store and said “these are for you”. That was exciting for me.
The second glimmer of hope for me in art was when my high school art teacher told me my paintings were “way ahead of time” and urged me to continue my skills in college. Art College never happened, you see, as I was born into a very poor family, and the future of a girl such as I was to get married, have children, and be a good wife, if I were lucky. …
I am a full time artist since 2015. So art is at the very center of my life. I have been drawing portraits for a long time and have been painting for about 10 years but I have no training.
I struggle with painting people in a scene. I want to make the movement and position of the body look natural. I would love to learn the technics of layering.
I think Old masters academy is great, it shows that we learn from the great of the past. I love the precision and technics that are taught by the academy. …
… I joined the Web Art Academy some years ago while I was still working as a cardiac theatre nurse. I completed all the courses, learning a great deal of oil painting skills and techniques. I also painted at every opportunity, watercolours, acrylics and oils. I was encouraged by my family, friends, colleagues and collectors. …
… Everyone loves this painting and it sold almost immediately when I exhibited it. It’s one of my favourite portraits. However, I am aware of my limits. I need more in-depth training and I believe that the Old Masters Academy can greatly help me to fulfil my dream, which is to become a professional artist who can paint like the old masters. …
I am a self-taught painter and I have begun to draw since I was a child. I have studied the works of Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velasquez and in general the history of art up to our days.
Art plays an important role in my life since it allows me to meditate on things and people. There are some contemporary artists whose works are appropriate to my way of painting such as David Leffel, Sherrie Mcdraw, Gregg Kreutz, Cesar Santos and others because their painting represents a renaissance of Realism. …
Liebner-Anthony Van Zyl’s work is beautifully put together with the use of thick and short brush strokes. It creates a unique experience with the approach of emotion and logic.
My life completely changed last June, when my lovely, lovable, beautiful, beloved daughter went to Heaven… Since then I started to paint. My PAINtings are a piece of me and, I hope, they represent and spread the unconditional love, kindness, beauty, patience, and courage she represents. Without painting I would be submerged by pain.…
I am a very happy French woman of 55 years old. I am an accountant in my husband’s real estate business. I have 3 children, a 28 years old son and twins, 24 years old daughter and boy.
For the past two years, I have participated in competitions and exhibitions. I won several awards and sold some of my work. It encourages me a lot to continue to progress. Now, I would like to learn how to make portraits and study composition in paintings.
I discovered Old Masters Academy on Instagram. What Natalie Richy does is exactly what I like. I am very admirative. …
… I work hard and prepare myself daily because I wish to become a great master!!
Art is very important in my life. Art has changed my life dramatically, it has made me feel fulfilled.
I can not live a day without touching a pencil and drawing a picture, when I worked in the industrial zone of my city my hands shout me to do art.
My challenges is learn the old master techniques to make it mine and with that resources has the possibility to generate a new visual style and a new technique. As I commented I wish to become a great master and how they once did it change the history of art. As well I want to paint in new contemporary, and also nationalists themes with yours methods (like Rembrandt, Velázquez, Turner, Delacroix or Gericault). …
