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Now I am retired and my dream is to paint like Caravaggio, Da Vinci, Rubens …

January 27, 2025 Leave a Comment

Now I am retired and my dream is to paint like Caravaggio, Da Vinci, Rubens …

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Artwork by Patricia

I am a 69 years old woman and I have worked as an administrative employee all my life. Now I am retired and my dream was to draw and paint with techniques like Caravaggio, Da VInci, Rubens did…

When I was 9 years old came to visit us an artist (a teacher of a famous art school of our country) to see if my brother has a talent for it (He was an acquaintance of my father and was invited by him for an advice). He had given an assignment to my brother to draw my father’s hand and I was there too. So I had secretly drawn it too. The art teacher looked at both drawings and said that indeed my brother has a talent but he also said “your daughter is more talented and would advise you to send your daughter to art school too”. Unfortunately my father replied that it is not for a girl (it is not a woman’s thing). So my dream remained in hibernation.

paint like Caravaggio

(I drew this drawing by tearing the photo and sticking it on the surface of other paper with scotch tape as a composition using colored pencils)

I sometimes looked at the drawing of my dad’s hand that showed the character of my dad so beautifully with a dull pain that I was not allowed to study where I loved so much. In the meantime I had helped my brother to make portraits because my father had said that with me it has more character. I had always said jokingly to everyone that when I retire, I will go to the art academy (but in my head I had seriously decided to do it that way). Now I am 69 and also do what I had dreamed of all my life. I am in the first year of drawing class and we had been given an assignment to make a copy of Caravaggio paintings.

I want to win this Competition and I need your help!

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