Old Masters Academy

How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials

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Painting process of Gilberto Mello, Old Masters Academy student

How I Painted My First Reproduction of an Old Master’s Art

Gilberto Mello, Old Masters Academy studentMy 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.

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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 …

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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!

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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. …

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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. …