As an Old Masters Academy™ Member, you can exhibit your paintings and drawings in the Students Gallery.
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 …
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.
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!
Story from Linda Duckworth, Old Masters Academy student
I have been in love with drawing and painting since I was a child but majored in science and worked in the nuclear industry for nearly 30 years – only painting when between jobs.
I retired a few years ago due to health reasons and now paint when I physically able, generally pinky a few days a week and inky a few hours at a time. …
Story from Elise Johns, Old Masters Academy student
The only thing I knew about watercolor was which end of the brush to wet
I didn’t know I could even draw, much less paint, until I was 55 years old.
I have known some successes, raising children alone, starting and running an ad agency for 10 years, owning a quilt shop and so on. My main hobbies/interests enduring throughout my life have been needlework, history/genealogy, and in-depth study of the Bible and Hebrew. I have achieved Master level of Fine Hand Embroidery, specializing in White on White from the 18th – 19th century. I have traced our family back to William the Conquerer and discovered amazing accomplishments of my forefathers. I taught people how the study the Bible for 20 years (classes at night and weekend workshops) and taught myself to read Hebrew and even speak it.
And yet, I didn’t think I was really good at anything and often wondered why I didn’t have a gift, a talent. There has always been a part of me looking for “something” that was missing in my life. …
