Old Masters Academy

How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials

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A Sixty Year Journey – I started drawing as a teenager

Artwork by Sharon Mick

… In 2013 my second husband and I moved to Hemet, CA. I am grateful for all of his support. On my 65th birthday I decided to become a certified instructor. I located an renown artist, Wilson Bickford and studied and received my certification from him.

Within a short time I stared conducting classes in the Colonial County Club recreation center and I have been actively pursuing my artistic efforts ever since.

The greatest gift for an artist is the beauty that surrounds us daily.

I have difficulties with color and values. I hope to someday learn the proper way to add value. I have always admired and respected Old Masters Academy for their material and professionalism.

I want to win this course so I can pass it on to a young inspiring artist who can’t afford to attend this fantastic academy. …

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Oil Paintings by Patricia Melanie Beauchamp

Painting my way to recovery…

Once upon a time, a young happy athletic girl found herself with a narrow existence struggling with a chronic pain from my head to my toes throughout her life. In 2013 a diagnosis of Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS). This autoimmune disease is a type of arthritis of the spine. No cure, but at least I had confirmation. I am still determined and optimistic.  There is always light at the end of my road, field of trees or even darkness.
 
Everyday my hope was that my words, actions and my creative self will encourage the observer to seek a moment of kindness and reflection each and every day of our lives through my art.

One day I found a surgeon to fix the mechanical defect in my back. After many years, it felt foreign yet holding a paint brush in my hand.
Because of that desire to create no matter what obstacle. 

My own art became my physical therapy for my hand, arm and back during that first recovery. …