Old Masters Academy

How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials

drawing portraits

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I am a full time artist but I have no training

Artwork by Lory Grimard

I am a full time artist since 2015. So art is at the very center of my life. I have been drawing portraits for a long time and have been painting for about 10 years but I have no training.

I struggle with painting people in a scene. I want to make the movement and position of the body look natural. I would love to learn the technics of layering.

I think Old masters academy is great, it shows that we learn from the great of the past. I love the precision and technics that are taught by the academy. …

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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. …