Art Competition Archive

Time is my currency

Artwork by Graham Landgraff

… More importantly, in the wonderful way that art consumes time, it proves Einstein’s Relativity theory. Time DOES fly when someone has fun or drags during something boring or awful. He proved it with an equation. Ever experience time at the canvas, look up, and notice where did the time go? Isn’t it great? But sit in a class with someone who cannot train themselves out of a wet paper bag (knowledge and skill transfer) and it can be pure torture! You sit in front of a muddy, drab canvas and want to quit. So to the Old Masters for us both is seems? Hopefully we can meet on the other side!

Know this. Time is my currency – having gone from life’s fast lane off onto a country dirt road, full stop. I know as someone who like myself (and my birth-mom) the appeal of art falls short of appreciation in someone unwilling or untrained to explore their inner Artist’s Way. To the believer, no explanation is necessary. To the non-believer, none is possible. …

The Housewife Artist

Artwork by Amanda Bowoade

I am a housewife with four young children. I stay at home with my two youngest, who are babies. I have hopes of eventually becoming a 3D animator and I am currently in school for this, but to become a great animator, you need to be a great artist first: and so I am always learning, trying to fill in the gaps in my art knowledge. However, I live in a very small town in the depths of Alberta, Canada and there aren’t many opportunities here to expand my skills in the ways I want to.

The time that isn’t spent changing disappears and picking up after four children and feeding six hungry mouths is spent drawing, painting, or studying.

Art is my biggest challenge, my best friend, and my greatest enemy – I’m either excited about what I’m achieving or angry about my shortcomings. Art keeps my mind from becoming stagnant and makes the isolation of being in the house all day bearable. I have carved out a sizeable chunk of our living room and that is where I spend most of my day, at my drawing board, surrounded by my pencils, drawing and painting while my sons play at my feet. …

It is very rare that I spend a day without drawing

Artwork by Francisco Bordon

I’m 59 years old and I live on an island in Gran Canaria, I’m an art lover, art for me is the way to communicate, here are not many opportunities to study good art.

I always had a pencil in my hand, it is very rare that I spend a day without drawing, I always go out with a blog, a pencil and a pen and as soon as I have time I draw a picture.

I spent part of my childhood drawing on my own, I didn’t have an art teacher at the time, later I was in an academy where classical realism wasn’t studied. I have developed my painting skills on my own. …

Old Masters New Visions

Artwork by Vanessa Letih

I am a 31 year old female from New Zealand.
I have always been an artist like all children and I loved to paint and draw, the things is then I just never stopped when I got older.
It is a way I can express myself and is a form of visual language. A blank canvas is an opportunity to ask myself what is it that I want to say?…

…The Old Masters Academy course looks to be what I have been searching for as it covers so many of the skills I have been wanting to learn.There are many online courses on offer in art, but I have yet to find one that stood out as much as this one. The courses look very structured and easy to follow. I think anyone who was to do one of these courses would benefit greatly. …

Lifelong artist, first time oil painter

Artwork by Paul Potts

This last Fall, I took my first ever oil painting class at a local art school. It was a beginning oil painting class. Like from the basics. I thought, “Still, it is dedicated time to paint every week.” I knew most of the information related to the color wheel and composition from school and the use of acrylics my whole life from 7 years old. So, when we started painting, almost everyone in the class came over to me and said, “What are you doing here. You are not a beginner.” I explained that I wanted to learn how to use oil mediums and what causes the paint to dry faster and how to varnish correctly after I’m done. …

…I have been doing a painting every week since I started that class. …

I would love to be a student here

Artwork by Inger Lise W Teichmann

It is when I draw or paint, time dissolves and become non-existing. It was always like that, because as a little girl, I had to be quiet because my mother was ill. As I never found my way in life, I thought this was not my path. Even getting the best grades in art classes, or applying for art schools didn’t convince me do to my lack of self confidence. I thought I wasn’t good enough. …

I would like to paint like Leonardo, Michelangelo and Rafael

Artwork by Matilda

For so many years I have desperate need and will to learn how Old masters were painting. It is such a secret for me and today, unfortunately, nobody have a will to teach you that techniques in that way like you can teach me on your Old Masters Academy course. So I really wish to won this competition to become a complete artist, improve my skills and above all, to show my little son that I can paint like a ‘real’ painter in oil. He still doesn’t believe me! …

When I paint I think I am alive

Artwork by Sai Prasshant Paladugu

I love painting

Artwork by Gail Annette Martin

Have you ever sat outside and looked at the light shinning through the leafs on a tree and discovered, what seemed like thousands of colors, reflecting in the pond below. It is a moment everyone should experience.

I wondered if it was possible for someone, my age, to accomplish the techniques needed to paint this fabulous scene.

After all the kids were raised, my tennis was over, because of bad knees, I needed another outlet for my sole. …

… Improving my art is so important to me. I am 75 now and hope to improve, and get more knowledgeable about the ways of the Old Masters. How did they decide on the composition; why did they choose a certain color to be prominent in their painting? How did they meld their objects into the canvas and make them look so real and alive. I want to learn all of that , now! …

One day without paint on my brushes and fingers is a wasted day

Artwork by Rajagopalan Ravindran

I‘m known to all as Ravi, am 61 years old, and live in the region of Lower Saxony in Germany.

I‘m somewhat at the crossroads of my life, my wife had gifted me a „gift voucher“ to a local Art Course 4 years ago, ( Oct. 2014), since then my passion for Art has been stoked and kindled in me. In my normal daily life, I‘m dealing with figures „a number person“, hence, I‘m surprised at myself about my new found love for beautiful pictures, visions and the world of Art !

Art has become a very important part of my daily routine. One day without paint on my brushes and fingers is a wasted day. I love to see the development and progress in an oil painting, give it a few hours and watch the change and then proceed onwards.

My greatest challenge in art is to be able to see through, visualize, perceive and understand the techniques of the old masters and geniuses, like the great Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci and Dürer (my special buddies!). I want people to look at my art paintings or drawings and be able to comprehend immediately my intention of Artwork without lots of words or explanations … my goal in each of my art paintings is to try to Evoke Beautiful Divine Emotions and Inspirations … an Artwork Painting should be able to speak a million words … to the intimate eyes of the beholder viewers ! …

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