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Lifelong desire to paint, finally doing it

Artwork by Mark Cotrupe

I fell in love with art, and especially painting when I took a humanities class in High School. I tried painting but wasn’t able to afford lessons, and got frustrated. I spent the next 50 years doing Photography instead. I kept trying to make my photos look like paintings.

Finally, when I retired just over a year ago, even though I still had to work another year, I decided to pursue painting seriously. I am in love with painting. Now that I have left the world of working for wages, I am in serious pursuit of producing great art.

These days, there are so many instructional videos available, and I consumed many of them. It made me feel like I can paint ok, and my work is ok, but I’m feeling like I am missing a solid technical background. That is why I would love to win the Old Master’s course.

Not having technical training is like learning a song on a guitar without learning about music. You will always be limited and fall short in some area. I need the information and discipline. …

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Learning to draw from the Old masters is the most unique gift of all

Artwork by Asma Ahmed

My name is Asma and I am currently learning Fine Arts In National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan and I have a strong ambition to learn the traditional and contemporary forms of art.

One of my Artistic Challenges is learning to draw “Still life’ as nothing is truly more difficult than simply drawing from pure observation. I hope to learn many things in terms of Art such as Digital Painting, Animation, Water colors and Miniature Art which is scarce.

The Old Masters Academy will help me to learn the basic foundation of Arts and in order to become a great artist one must seek to learn that of the old Masters such as Michelangelo and Albrecht Dürer one of my favorite artists, meaning one must learn “how to draw”. …

Each day I draw figures…

Artwork by Brando

For years I have been an art director for the major record labels and have had a great platform to show my art. At the beginning of the year I left that career to take the year to travel the world and just paint/draw every day. These have been the most content and fulfilling months of my life – being able to create solely for myself.

I will now be taking my chances as a full time painter and it is a really exciting venture. …

… I spent 4 years at an art academy earning a bachelor of fine arts degree – where I learned nothing. It was a structure built to collect money and not create art. My goal is not to make money, my friends say that I’m allergic to it, I just want to create art for personal therapy and share it with the world who may find their own therapy in it. …

I would like to paint like the Old Masters

Artwork by Eileen Weaver

Immersed in art from a childhood. I am practicing to move ever forward to create a more creative and unique style. I hope to win the Old Masters Academy course so it will help me to be more accomplished.

I have been very attached to artwork working actively on my own art pieces. I would love this course to get me back on track since I drift away from my work from time to time and would prefer to work at a course that would keep me actively engaged. I get distracted by life’s challenges finding it difficult to keep focused. …

I will be able to learn while I am at home with my kids!

Artwork by Wiona Nicola van Huyssteen

My name is Wiona, I am a mother of three beautiful children and love to find quirky and funny things in life to laugh about! My husband and I make silly pun jokes all the time and this painting represents a typical South African dish “Pap en Wors” or Sausage and Mash. The seriousness of the Sausage dog looking regally comfortable in his spot makes me smile every time I see it, and I hope others will too!

The techniques taught by the Old Masters Academy course will definitely enhance my paintings and help develop my style.

I would love to win the Old Masters Academy course because I will have access to the best teachers and be able to learn while I am at home with my kids. I also want them to develop a love for painting and art as I have! …

I do enjoy my work, but art is my passion

Artwork by Sunil Joseph

My name is Sunil. Currently working as a telecommunications engineer. I do enjoy my work, but art is my passion. A friend once told me that one needs to follow one’s dream, passion, anything that makes one feel at bliss Art is one thing that makes feel at bliss, never realizing how much time has passed.

Having two kids, one just a year old, it is challenging at times to get time to sit and complete a drawing or sketch at one go. Thankfully, I have friends request me to do a piece of art or I ask them what they would like me to do for them. While I don’t have a deadline, it helps me stay focused and build on God’s gift in a small way.

I mostly did pencil sketches and wanted to learn oil painting. …

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I would like to draw like the old masters!

Artwork by Inna Ustinova

I was born in a Russian family at Klaipeda, Lithuania on 29 Mars 1968. I live in Norway now.
Art is a continuously surprising beauty.. It’s a magic with supernatural forces…

To learn to draw exactly what I see and I think could be a greatest thing in my life.

I would like to learn to draw like old masters did because it will give me more freedom to draw. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo are always best examples of classical art to me and to the world. …

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I look at the artworks through colours and varnish layers

Artwork by Agnieszka Kossowska

Art affected my life since I was a child. I was very lucky to be born in Krakow, the wonderful city which made me appreciate Art even more because of its history and charm.

I left my hometown to work in Italy, where Art is literally everywhere. I spent 15 years restoring paintings and I had the chance to give new life to many marvellous masterpieces; this experience taught me how to look at the artworks through colours and varnish layers. At the moment I am dealing with some lost or damaged illuminated pages of manuscripts and I am trying to reconstruct the mutilated ones. In order to do this, I had to refresh my studies of the artistic techniques of the past.

I am also really passionate about the Old Masters and I am wishing to know their fundamentals and their secrets because I think it’s important not to forget them. …

I liked painting and drawing since I was a child

Artwork by José Castillo

I am Venezuelan. Since I was a child I liked painting and drawing, during my school studies. I was pleasantly surprised by the artistic education, a subject that is given in the baccalaureate of our country, when leaving high school.

I studied chemical technology and I dedicated myself to my profession as a means of sustenance, leaving aside the call of art until in 2006 I met the Venezuelan painter Feliciano Carballo, national painting award in 1966. The approach to his art aroused the interest to start drawing and painting. The story that expresses in its magical jungles attracted the attention. So much was the motivation that I went directly to buy materials to paint. I began to search the Internet and bought some books, making progress in my knowledge.

I began painting still-lives and landscapes, then I became interested in portraits, a subject that is very difficult for me to handle and I get frustrated when I see that the finished work does not fill me completely.

One day I met the old masters academy and I realized without a doubt, the effectiveness of the teaching methods applied by this academy and how much I still need to learn. …

I could not wait to start my lifelong dream – art classes

Artwork by Mathilda Kamper

When I retired after teaching for 40 years, it was as if the gates of freedom opened for me. To teach was my passion (History) and I enjoyed every minute of it, but it is an absorbing profession that do not allow any other personal activities.

When I closed my classroom in 2014, I could not wait to start my lifelong dream – art classes. It became my new passion, but it was challenging as I did not have any tuition in the basic theory, let alone mixing of paint, etc., etc. The tutors are well educated in the fine arts, and they were very patient. I am thankful for their input..

The reason why I think it is necessary to do the Old Masters course, is because it will provide a solid foundation for any artist. They are the best to learn from! . …

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