Old Masters Academy

How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials

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… painting is all life learning , I love to paint !

Artwork by Flora

This fantastic online course complete and integrate the Webartacademy online course! Its a great , great work !!!! It will be so great to learn all this professional knowledge from the great teacher and painter Natalie Richie ! I am a student of her Webartacademy online course and Vladimir London’s Drawing Academy already !

I read the preview almost on all Old Masters Academy’s lesson now and I am amazed by the stunning amount of work and research ! Painting is a hard , hard serious work and a long time meditation. …

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I have to paint, like I have to breathe

Artwork by Cecile de Villiers

I am an engineer and artist from Cape Town South Africa.

My love for creating art started in school. I especially loved the technical drawing class where I learned how to render a three-dimensional object on a flat surface.

From 2008 to 2017 I took Sculpting art classes combining my love for art and engineering. However, at the end of 2016 I did an Old masters oil painting workshop at the local atelier/art shop and I rediscovered by love for colour and painting; since that day I have to paint, like I have to breathe.

My main challenge is technical oil painting skills. I would love to learn about glazing, drawing and composition. …

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Life is exciting…Art is exciting.. I am excited

Artwork by Brenda Woods

I am retired. Producing art started for me 3 years ago. Art in my life now is paramount to a 3rd degree!!

My challenge is to sell and find time to create.

I am so full of ideas but bogged down by admin creativity is almost at a standstill.
My challengers are to find what people want in tandem to what I can do.
I do caricature but want to do realistic but not photographs people.. portraits.. and animals. …

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The lazy painter

Painting by David Fawcett

I am a 27 yr old boy living in Manchester UK, I’m fascinated with plants, animals and portraits of people and enjoy the symbology of painting.

Art is my safe space, it’s what I’ve had a lately for and because of this it’s where my confidence comes from, I’m working towards being a full time professional photographer so art takes up 80% of my life.

My challenges are motivation and materials, I struggle to get what I need to paint due to low pay and these times without it I can get depressed and lose my motivation and passion. My technical challenge is painting freehand without any scaling up lines.

I would like to learn more about how to paint like the old masters. I want to know how to paint a portrait of a person and it glows, my current work is too flat and too dark. …

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Brush with the Ancients

Artwork by Yan Gi Cheng

I live in Berlin. I am a contemporary visual artist.

I discovered Old Masters art course as Nathalie Richy commented on a photo of my artwork on Instagram. These days I have the passion for investigating old Masters works, as I believe that as an Artist in contemporary times it’s important to make work which also has some connection to the past as well as being forward thinking.

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Success is my only option, failure is not

Painting by Adejean Cardoso

Currently I’m on Pharmacy university and at the same time studying on my own about drawing and oil painting in the classical approach.
Art (mostly painting and music) is what complements the other half of life and it’s fundamental the humanity, since ever we are producing it. And for me, as way to feel and connect to other stories, people and words, it’s a way to produce something and give that imesurable pleasure back to the people.

What I most do to learn about the academic style is try again and again a logical method to construct a painting, based in my studies of the old masters.

But, to produce a vibrant art is necessary the skills. In my case, what kills me is the human flesh and drapery tones and folds, so hard to paint properly. …