Old Masters Academy

How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials

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Old Masters Academy review by Barbara 

Before and After by an Old Masters Academy student

I am a happy grandma of three grandchildren.

I’m a single mom of two, and I work as a social worker. When I was a child, I did quite well in art classes and enjoyed drawing a lot. I was thinking that one day I would start living my life as I had dreamed. Each New Year I wrote a new year’s resolution with a hope that I would definitely find some time for learning art again. Sometimes I felt so desperate and hopeless that my dream would ever come true. …

…I can only imagine what my painting skills would be today if I’d taken this course thirty years ago, when I was a bit younger.

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I’d like to be more efficient in painting

Artwork by Patrick Shields

I’m an artist that likes to create whatever I’m feeling like. I have a multitude of “styles” if you will, though I look at it like I’m just creating whatever I want. Art takes me to an energized state of imagination while I’m “conjuring,” and a contemplative state (most of the time) while I’m working. That old 1% inspiration and 99% prespiration thing.

I like the feeling I get when I complete a piece and now have something in the world that represents my own vision.

Some of my artistic challenges are, what I consider, a need to streamline my process. I really just mess around until I feel it’s done. I’d like to be more efficient. I also wish I could keep the “whole picture” in my mind as I’m working instead of focussing on one little bit at a time. I like when I see an artist work up a piece section by section whereas I tend to address the whole work with the one thing I’m dealing with at that time, such as highlights/glazing/etc. Though I remember one of Odd Nerdrum’s students saying that he repainted a figure’s arm about 6 times! I guess I’d like to learn how to proceed methodically through a painting without having to redo so much of it. …

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Paintings by Aaron Cristofaro

I really like to draw and paint

My name is Aaron I have been drawing and painting since I was around ten. I like to paint landscapes in oil and I’m starting portraits art take a huge place in my life as I paint and draw throughout the day. I try to capture feeling and emotions on canvas.

I think the Old Master Academy is great because it can teach you how to paint the way the old masters did with modern materials. …