How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials
I’m a 52 year old mother of one and one fur baby. Married 26 years. …
… From what I see, Old Master’s Academy is brilliant at lifting people’s abilities to the next level and I would like to be the winner so I can also be helped to lift myself to the next level. …
After a lifetime living and working in an office environment, I took the big step a few years ago to resign and dedicate myself entirely to what I was in love with since I was a young child: drawing and painting…
… While I was working in my day to day job I was spending all my ‘pocket money’ on art books and especially books on the old masters: the Venetians, the renaissance guys, the flemish masters, etc. I was reading and consuming information on their lives, their art making, their environment and whenever possible, their technique. I was mesmerized and impressed on how dedicated their whole life was on their art and how much discipline they had on improving their draftsmanship…Anyway the amazing pieces of art they left for us and which is a feast for our eyes, is a living proof of that dedication. …
… Though I have been drawing and painting for many years I am still not able to draw what I imagine or create any drawing on my own, which is one of the biggest struggles I have.
I just want to get better every time.
I was browsing for some drawing lessons when I found the old masters academy course. I think the skills you share is what’s missing in me as an art lover. And so glad that I found this course. …
… Here and there, I started to buy some art supplies. I tried to paint in the style of the masters, but always came short. I even took a couple classes at the local college, but found that even the instructors didn’t know how to paint like the masters. Doing research, I realized that the old type of schooling, where masters would take apprentices under their wing and teach them their techniques was nearly non-existent. I almost gave up, until one day, almost by accident, I found the Old Masters Academy course. It was almost too good to be true!
I graduated from college with a BA in Art History. I have always been very passionate about art. I worked as an art consultant and was an assistant gallery manager.
Now I want to create art. I want to learn everything about creating art. I loved the methods of the Old Masters. I love how drawing and painting come together. I love how much effort and time went into making these great works of art.
My artistic challenges are mostly finding a local art teacher who does not teach alla prima, organizing the process of painting, and brushwork. …
As a child, I was rather shy and solitary and lived in my imagination. I fantasized about the world in rain puddles and beyond the reflection in my bedroom mirror. As I grew up and moved into the real world, my artwork developed from my need to explore my feelings in both worlds.
My parents were not encouraging. My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist. My father was fixed that I would be a doctor. By the seventh grade, when my art teacher told me that I had ruined my project for the art fair by being rather free in my treatment of the background space, I stopped doing any drawing and painting until my early twenties and really didn’t think about art.
In the first semester of my senior year of college, I went on a foreign studies program to Japan. I took three classes, one of which was Japanese art history. The class captivated me and awakened a new interest in art work, especially painting. I loved sumi-e paintings and wood block prints and went searching to buy old prints. But even more, the design orientation of the society kindled a sleeping passion.
I came back to school in America for my last semester and only took art history classes and independent study in art history. I then prepared to go into the field of art restoration, even apprenticing for a short time with the conservator of American art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I needed additional undergraduate credits to apply to programs in this area, but as soon as I took my first studio classes, I knew I was a painter. …
