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My interest in animals dates back to my boyhood

Artwork by Ghulam Abbas Khaskheli

…I simply love to paint the animals of Pakistan in their natural habitats very luckily; this is my job in the Wildlife Department of Sindh.

My interest in animals dates back to my boyhood, but here were little or no opportunity to pursue
my interest fruitfully. …

… But I was inspired by the thought that I was not alone who loved to paint
animals, and my interest was spurred on with redoubled confidence.
Now I want to preserve on paper or canvas any animal I have the opportunity to watch and sketch.
It is a great fun, and I have now a collection of my own of which I am legitimately proud. …

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Wish for real art instruction!

Artwork by Ana Maria Jauregui

…I am 49 and have two kids 15 and 19. Art takes one of my first places in my life, after family, of course.

Since I was little I loved drawing and painting. I wanted to study art but in those years parents decided for us, saying art wasn’t something you could live off. SO I studied Interior decoration. …

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I want to be a fine artist

I want to be a fine artist

… Years ago, I first picked up painting accidentally after a trip to France and capturing the beautiful countryside with my camera. When I got home, the photos looked so beautiful that I decided I would try to paint it. I was hooked ever since. However, over the years, I have not had any proper training as I was always busy with work, etc. But I kept at it with my painting and, from time to time, I would visit galleries and museum just to look at paintings and to perhaps “reverse engineer” what I was seeing. It sometime worked but mostly I would spend hours just trying to get it down, reworking the painting again and again, just so it looked reasonably in decent form. This inconsistent method and approach to painting is so tiresome. I am hoping for a change and a solution to my lack of knowledge as a painter. …

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Excellence Is Not A Destination, It Is A Continuous Journey That Never Ends

Artwork by Regina Baxter

… My pursue of the arts started at a later part of my life. I became a wife, mother and had a career. When I turned 40, I did a masters degree in art and a postgraduate degree in art history. I have always been passionate and loved art that any free time I had on holiday, I would not go to the shops, but instead go to museums and galleries. This amused my husband as I didn’t spend money shopping. …

… I truly wish to take a course with the Old Masters academy to continue to improve my skills in drawing and painting with the techniques of my favourite artists. …

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I have “Something” to Give to Humanity

Artwork by Outi Kaski Winqvist

… I’m a middle-aged woman, that left my art brush when family life with children was sent to me from heaven I belive
My ArtBrush was replaced with DishBrush for years. …

… An “odd” thing, I want to write here, yet True is that I went to a person many years ago, that can communicate with Spirits on the other side.
The Spirit gave me a Message, that I should bring out the Art and Show to others, what I can. …

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An opportunity to become the kind of painter I admire

Artwork by Annie Lee Wehrli

… I have painted off and on for over twenty years but continue to struggle with repeatable results. I would like to be able to create a good likeness each time I sit down to paint. Right now it feels like when I get a good result, it’s a happy accident.

My skills progressed the most during a year in art school. It was the first time I had ever really painted, besides playing around with different media while growing up. It was certainly the first time I’d had any formal training and the constant practice and guidance was invaluable. The Old Masters Academy online course would allow me to have that same kind of sustained instruction while living in a relatively remote area. …