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Life is an art gallery

Paintings by Stasia Fisher

Hello, my name is Stasia.
Growing in orphanage I found solace in art.

Since childhood art was my soul companion that flamed the path before me. It took me safely over troubled waters and sheltered me from tears. Art transformed the world around me into a gallery: I was drawing everything I wished for. Anything I have seen and found value to it I would copy on paper: animals, people, homes.

I was hoping for a future of an artist but life lead me to different path. I missed education and have started to work after finishing high school. …

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I’d like to be more efficient in painting

Artwork by Patrick Shields

I’m an artist that likes to create whatever I’m feeling like. I have a multitude of “styles” if you will, though I look at it like I’m just creating whatever I want. Art takes me to an energized state of imagination while I’m “conjuring,” and a contemplative state (most of the time) while I’m working. That old 1% inspiration and 99% prespiration thing.

I like the feeling I get when I complete a piece and now have something in the world that represents my own vision.

Some of my artistic challenges are, what I consider, a need to streamline my process. I really just mess around until I feel it’s done. I’d like to be more efficient. I also wish I could keep the “whole picture” in my mind as I’m working instead of focussing on one little bit at a time. I like when I see an artist work up a piece section by section whereas I tend to address the whole work with the one thing I’m dealing with at that time, such as highlights/glazing/etc. Though I remember one of Odd Nerdrum’s students saying that he repainted a figure’s arm about 6 times! I guess I’d like to learn how to proceed methodically through a painting without having to redo so much of it. …

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I would like to be able to better realize my ideas

Painting by Erick Carrazco

I am a self-taught painter, I strive to learn every day the technique of the old masters of the Renaissance.

Art is for me, it is the breath of life that makes me envelop every day in a heavenly spirit.

My great artistic challenge is to achieve with my paintings that people change for the good, that those people who are suffering, find in my art spiritual happiness.

With art I want to learn to carry messages of love and peace to all human beings, especially the most needy. …

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I have been interested in Art for as long as I can recall

Artwork by Lora

I have been interested in Art for as long as I can recall. Yearning to attend Art school however and unfortunately I didn’t have the opportunity. Therefore I would be so grateful if I could do this course. I have been painting for ever and need the professional guidance.

I am grateful for what I have and grateful for what I don’t have. I am a Chinese astrologist and numerologist. Interested in the unknown …

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This course can help me a lot!

Drawing by Sandra Alina

Hi, my name is Sandra Alina, I`m an art lover and I think that art expresses our inner reality.

For as long as I can remember I have had a pencil in my hand. I spent part of my childhood in a rural area of Romania. There was no art teacher or art classes at that time.

I have developed my drawing skills by myself and I have created my own world by drawing and painting every time I could. But I never found such good information and instruction before. …

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I would LOVE to paint like the Old Masters

Paintings by Renate Pacheco

35 years ago I was a young aspiring artist. Life’s challenges got in the way and my passion for creating art was lost inside of me without a knowing of how to be released.

Over the last few years I attempted to create art in many different mediums. It was when I discovered oil painting that I felt as if I had come home. I can not describe the joy I feel when I am painting on a canvas with oil paints. The art is pouring out of me. All the years without creating seems to be coming out all at once.

I did attend art school for one year many, many years ago. Otherwise I am a self taught artist.
I want to improve upon my lighting and color mixing. …