Old Masters Academy

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Life is too short to worry too much

Paintings by Roger Miller

I lost my only son at age 6. That’s when I began to realize life is too short and too precious a thing to waste on worry.

My art is a representation of the joys of life, found in the small aspects, in the grandeur of mountains, the power of the water, the Majesty of all living things.

The challenges I face, in addition to there’s not enough time in the day, are putting on canvas a scene that evokes reality in the veiwer, that tickles a distant memory of, ” I may have been there”. I’d love to express this the way the Old Masters did, the purity and intensity of light, the mystery of shadow, the brush strokes of genius. …

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I love art

Paintings by Christopher Lanotis

I love art and use every opportunity to visit art museums when travelling. I wanted to become an artist, but my parents advised me to pursue a different career and it look like a good decision at a time. The older I get the stronger my desire to paint. I am a self taught artist and think that my life would be very different should I follow the childhood dream.

When I found the Old Masters Academy course, I was very impressed with the information provided here. It is my dream to learn to paint like great masters did. It would be fantastic should I win this art course.

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I put the arts on hold until my children were grown up…

Paintings by Melanie Grace

My name is Melanie Grace I have always been drawn to the arts throughout my life.

When I was 8 years old I used to design and sew my own teddy bears.
My favourite subject in school was Art and I always got top marks in it however my environment that I grew up in was very dysfunctional and I was very neglected as a child.

My life went the wrong way for many years with drugs and alcohol u til I got help and that is when I got back into the arts. I took a paper mache’ class and my teacher encouraged me to show my work and I won 2 People’s Choice Awards at my local Gallery. …

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Help me paint my masterpiece

Artwork by Brodie Wilson

Hi, I’m Brodie. I’m a 19 year old aspiring painter. I’m entirety self taught and have had no formal training in painting at all.

Art is the most important thing in my life and it has been for as long as I can remember really.

My greatest ambition is simply to be able to say that I’ve created something that can be called a “masterpiece”; I want to be able to compete with the greatest painters of the history of art.

I think the Old Masters Academy Course offers a great service to those who are seeking a way to make art that just isn’t taught anymore. They offer help and advice and tutoring on the methods of the greatest painters who have lived and many people have highly regarded them for their efforts in this. …

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I’m going to paint until the end of my life

Paintings by Jurandir Alves de Oliveira

I’m 55 years old Brazilian painter. I start painting around my 40. My artistic challenges: to paint until the end of my life.
Old masters academy is a very interesting course and I would like to win it.

The people have to vote for me because I’m going to paint until I become 90 years old.