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Story from Linda Duckworth, Old Masters Academy student

December 19, 2017 6 Comments

Story from Linda Duckworth, Old Masters Academy student

I have been in love with drawing and painting since I was a child

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.

I was fortunate to be able to take several workshops from Frank Covino. He taught Renaissance style oil painting. After he passed away, I was despairing at the lack of good training available.

Then I found the Drawing Academy and now the Old Masters Academy! I’ve just started the Master’s class and I’m thrilled with the first classes!


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  1. William A. Wachter says

    December 22, 2017 at 10:55 am

    You have the light, color, tone, line and form of the Old Masters but the point of any llesson I would take would be to create something new. I likewise am retired from science, but simply copying an existing Old Masters leaves a part of me out of it. My suggestion is that you put as much of you into it as you can. All those life experiences…

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  2. Frans Kamp says

    January 7, 2018 at 10:18 am

    Dear Linda,
    Thank you for sharing this wonderfull Painting. It seams to me that your are already the women “Old Master” in our times. I was like you also drawing and Painting sinds the last 60 years, but was at the beginning of my professional live also involved in the Nuclear Industry, that is, responsible for the quality control and security of new vessels in Holland, Germany and Spain. Because of the real war with the “Radiation Maniacs” I builded up a new carrier in General Management from big Companies. Later I opened my own Engineerings Bureau, mainly in the graphic world, where I concentrated myself on colours and Graphic printing machinery. I am graduated both the Drawing Academy and the “Oilpainting” course and I am finishing now “The Old master Acadamy”. I think the last one is by far the very best. Good luck to you! And happy Painting! NB. Look also for Johan Maelwael (1370 -1415)

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  3. Lois Grimes says

    May 8, 2018 at 12:24 pm

    Linda,

    I love your painting! This is an inspiration! After 40 years of not painting, I have started to paint again. I get discouraged and wonder if I should keep trying. But your painting inspires me to continue!

    Thank you for sharing!
    Lois Grimes

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  4. Gilberto Mello says

    May 8, 2018 at 3:33 pm

    Dear Linda,

    Your work is very nicely done, good choice of subject, too. Copying the Old Masters is a great practice (sorry but I disagree with Mr. W. Wachter above) I believe by copying them we truly get close to their “feeling” and their thinking process, which is the whole point of learning the proper painting techniques – like it is taught in the Art Academy on line and art ateliers as well. We can always evolve from the experience afterwards, as I think I am after few years studying on my own with the help of Old Masters and the Art Academy.

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  5. marge poulos says

    August 3, 2018 at 9:13 am

    Linda:
    This painting demonstrates that in technique and style you have already become one of the the old masters.

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  6. Lana Lipsett says

    August 22, 2019 at 9:43 am

    I envy your skill. I also retired from a science job, not nuclear but medical. I wish you all the best in your painting career.

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