As an Old Masters Academy™ Member, you can exhibit your paintings and drawings in the Students Gallery.
Old Masters Academy review by Barbara
Before and After by Old Masters Academy student
I am a happy grandma of three grandchildren.
I’m a single mom of two, and I work as a social worker. When I was a child, I did quite well in art classes and enjoyed drawing a lot. I was thinking that one day I would start living my life as I had dreamed. Each New Year I wrote a new year’s resolution with a hope that I would definitely find some time for learning art again. Sometimes I felt so desperate and hopeless that my dream would ever come true. …
…I can only imagine what my painting skills would be today if I’d taken this course thirty years ago, when I was a bit younger.
Review by Old Masters Academy student
Artwork by Stephen Jamison
… I was able to retire from full time employment in 2007 and discovered a real passion for painting again, I was lucky enough to receive a decent commission which inspired me to take up painting full time.
For over 30 years I had painted alla prima pretty much in the style of the impressionists but I was increasingly dissatisfied with the results and wanted to achieve a higher standard and improve my ability. I began to study the methods of the old masters and at this time I discovered the Old Master’s Academy. …
Painting process of Gilberto Mello, Old Masters Academy student
How I Painted My First Reproduction of an Old Master’s Art
My name is Gilberto Mello, I have been a student in the Art Academy courses for a number of years. Just recently I joined the Old Masters Academy program, with Natalie Richy. I am enjoying the Old Masters courses a great deal and I am pleased by the very comprehensive and easy to follow lessons provided in the program, which I can review as many times as necessary, learning at my own pace.
I thrive to become a better artist every step of the way, so in my attempts to produce new paintings I tend to observe and question how the Old Masters have reached their glorious results.
Painting by Abd Alqader Bsata
I started drawing since I was four years old. Although I did not learn drawing at an institute or college, I have participated in several art exhibitions.
Here is one of my paintings with the symbolic reference to Salvador Dali
Artwork by Rana Goswami, Old Masters Academy student
Painting is my passion
Painting is my passion – more a raison d’etre – the balance that makes life in heavy industrial selling complete.
I am not what one traditionally calls a painter: someone who has been trained to wield the brush to give vent to creative outpourings of the soul. On the contrary, I am a self taught …
Steps of portrait painting
Painting process by Shashi Hemant
Hello,
I am fascinated with the Old Masters art and have enrolled in this online course to learn how to use painting techniques that are not taught in contemporary art colleges.
The information I found in the Old Masters Academy video lessons is very helpful. I watch every video several times and every time i find new things to learn.
My challenge in portrait painting is to achieve likeness of a person I’m portraying and capture the expression especially when I paint people I know personally.
This is a portrait of my husband. It is the fastest one I ever created – it took me five days and I’m glad with results.
Thank you for making the Old Masters Academy course for students like me; I am learning here a lot!
