How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials
I grew up in a time when I didn’t know that you could actually make a living in art. I’ve always known that I had an above average ability to paint and oil is pretty much the only medium I ever used.
Life takes over and you raise babies, go to work and never fully expand your art. That’s me. I did attend the Art Institute one year, yet I don’t recall that they taught me much beyond the ability I already had.
I choose to live by the idea of creating the most rare and one of a kind art piece, to capture both reality and delusional horror by using a blank canvas. To be able to show the world something that is non existent to their imagination and reality.
My elements are collections of thoughts that comes across my daily life, a leak of imagination.
Art is a way to make this simple life become amazing, to make something wonderful out of nothing, to converse without talking and to show the world who I really am. And today I choose to share this to you, my own little introduction of myself to a complete stranger. …
… I want to learn emotions, I want to master the ability to incorporate emotions with my art ideas. …
I am getting on in life now but ever since I was a tiny child, I have been fascinated and challenged by my desire to paint like the Old Masters.
I live in country Australia and have only ever had the opportunity to see real Old Masters in an exhibition in Melbourne about forty years ago when Russia allowed a collection of art pieces to travel while renovations were being done to the Hermitage. I took two tiny children twice a week for as long as the exhibition ran, but due to the press of crowds, never had the chance to study them. …
… These workshops gave me a taste of my abilities and I have continued my studies using books and lots of practice but I feel I lack the confidence and finesse and techniques to produce works to the standard I know I am capable of doing.
In my experience there is a handful of artists who can produce beautiful Old Master style paintings. I would dearly love to be one of them.
My passion, my goal… to paint and travel for as much as I’m able and for as long as I’m able… I place part of my soul on every canvas
Creative Canvas Gallery is the realisation of my dreams…..
I put my artistic career on hold for twenty years to raise my three amazing children. I started again 14 years ago, in Ballito on the North Coast KZN, South Africa. I started teaching about 12 years ago, and have had many rewarding moments along the way.
Many exhibitions and a few projects later, I find myself in the wonderful situation of being able to paint every day. …
Hello, I’m Carol and am a recent retiree who always loved doing art; drawing, painting, crafting and designing. My dream in high school was to go to college and major in the fine arts. But then, I started work, put myself through a local college and got a ‘safe” degree, Sociology. I finished my working career as an administrative assistant, not a particularly creative job!
I’ve taken many classes in acrylic, watercolor and decorative painting as well as drawing courses. I enjoy going to museums and art galleries to see how artists handle their medium and what inspires them. I belong to our local art league and have made some wonderful friends.
My artistic challenges are color mixing, shading and learning how to “see” what my oil painting needs to move it to the next level. I would like to learn more about good composition.
In my language Umut means Hope and according to artist Gerhard Richter “Art is the highest form of hope”. Art is another way of expressing your feelings, thoughts, hopes and dreams.
I am a self-taught artist who is still learning and I know there is a lot to learn. My journey started 6 years ago. I wanted to learn sculpting but I discovered that you have to have a sound base. So I attended drawing classes and then studied oil painting in different courses. …
