I am a Chinese immigrant and my English is not very good. I like drawing since I was a child. I graduated from Shanghai academy of fine arts and majored in sculpture. I worked for 35 years on animated films. My animation won many awards. I live in Las Vegas now, mostly on oil portraits. Not too much emphasis on commercialization.
Painting is the most precious content in my life. I am always looking for the techniques and connotations of classicism. …
… Though I have been drawing and painting for many years I am still not able to draw what I imagine or create any drawing on my own, which is one of the biggest struggles I have.
I just want to get better every time.
I was browsing for some drawing lessons when I found the old masters academy course. I think the skills you share is what’s missing in me as an art lover. And so glad that I found this course. …
The opportunity to be enrolled in the Old Masters Academy is to have a dream to come true. I have been “hanging out” at the Old Masters academy website loving every bit of information being shared and am hungry for more.
I recently joined a local art guild to meet other artists and I am aware that need to “fill in the gaps of my present hobbyist/seat of my pants training” with professional instruction. Recently I attempted the old Flemish painting style…and it I had been hard to find complete information regarding materials, techniques, steps….and different artists seem to give conflicting information. …
… I’d like widening and deepening my my skills. I like the Classicist style but I’m especially interested in with Renaissance and Baroque.
I think the Old Masters Academy offer a opportunity for me to learn new topics on an available way.
I want to take part in this competition because I want to compare my pictures to others and the reward can be very useful for every artists.
I’m curious about the opinion of the audience and looking forward competition. I hope the public like my artwork and they want to help me develop my skills
… After school I when onto college where I did art and design courses and I then got a degree in fine arts. But they do not do teach you how to paint, which I find frustrating. And that is what I what to master. I paint and draw all the time and when I am not making art I love to go and look at art.
As a child my mother took me to the National Gallery in London and I loved looking at the old master. I think that it is great that the Old Master Academy course well show artists how to paint like one of the great old masters of the. And I would love to be given the opportunity of a lifetime to learn how to master the painting techniques of the old master.
… Not that I feel I can do the Divine justice, for to do so would entail perfection on my part and, being imperfect, that is a forlorn hope. However, I would like to learn much more that would make such imperfections less obvious. My art training comes largely from my mother and, ‘though a fine artist in her own right, she is perhaps not so well regarded as the Masters from Cimabue onwards. It is these – especially the hyper-realistic painters – whose techniques I yearn to master such as my meagre budget affords me, so that I, too, will become well regarded, so that I will attract the John Ruskins and the Charles Saatchis or even the Medicis who can offer me their patronage.
This is one of the beauties of the Old Masters Academy. Never before have I seen so comprehensive and easy-to-understand exposition of the techniques which have made the likes of Michelangelo, Leonardo, Constable, van Dyck et al so vivid and beloved centuries after their return to the Divine, and this is why I want – indeed, so badly need – to study on the course. …
… Ten years ago I stopped and took a breath, I retired. I didn’t retire totally but at least my calendar was mine and I could find time to paint. You see the only time my mind gears down from the problems of the day and the world is when I paint or sing. Using that right brain is what relaxes me and makes me a kinder, more gentle person.
I’ve taken lessons from a variety of teachers in our Woman’s Club and a local art association. When I look at the old masters and read of the limited palettes they use I am amazed at the colors and values they are able to achieve. I learn something new from each and every teacher. My goal is to find my style, my best color palette, and become a master at what I do.
As we grow older our lives change and so must we. I hope that the last 30 years or so will be a productive time of creating works of beauty for others to enjoy for years to come.
My name is Davies David, and I love to be an artist.
… I love art so much. I guess painting figures is really challenging also finding the right values and the perfect colors are a bit hard.
I would love to study art to become better and learn new techniques and master human figure and portraits so the best way for that is learning from old masters because they are the best and I really love to make a big effort to achieve my dreams. …
…I would like to improve my skills to a much more realistic and figurative style of painting and drawing quality. I kind of started backwards in my Artistic interests and education growing up. In high school I was exposed to the Impressionists and Van Gogh along with a smattering of the Renaissance masters such as Da Vinci then in my portfolio preparation course for Art college stuff like ‘Shock of the New’ and modern Art which to put it politely wasn’t to my liking at all, things got even worse when I eventually did go to Art College, even though I was there to learn to be a Graphic Designer the only enjoyable part I remember from my first core year were the life drawing classes, the knowledge and techniques as thought here on the old masters academy are rapidly fading or all but gone from the local college level only to be replaced with conceptual and modern art, again I’ll hold my views lol! apologies if I’ve rambled. …
