How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials
… My artistic challenges is the technical part of art. The “rules” of art. I struggle to find someone to teach me more in depth understanding of art and how to use the rules to express yourself.
Everybody just tells to just express myself, but I want in depth understanding of art and its form of expression.
I have followed the old masters academy for over a few years now. Its one of a few art institutions that will bring back good art and the skills of good art. …
I saw an Old Masters Academy’s student’s feedback, where she shows her before and after portraits, so I decided to share my progress as well. …
Thank you for the course and above all for explaining how to mix paints more efficiently; it was a big challenge for me, as I often mixed wrong colors and wasted a lot of paint.
After years of putting my artistic pursuits aside and working to provide a comfortable home and lifestyle for my family, it is now my turn to return to those dreams and develop a strong artistic position within the world of Artists. …
I aim to learn and promote the traditional classical style of painting to a high degree as I feel this skill has been lost over the past 150 years or so. I want to lead the way in realist painting and teach upcoming artists there is more to true art than throwing paint at a canvas and making up a story to suit the result of the splattered paint on the canvas.
From what I can gather, the Old Masters Academy is what the world needs now to bring reality (and Realism) back. …
… I am certified in Scientific Illustration and have recently completed an Associates degree in Graphic Design, though these are merely tools and methods, they will not take me where I need to go without the soul power found in the depth, elegance and lavish detail utilized by the Renaissance masters. …
… The knowledge that you offer in your Old Masters Academy course would allow me to endow my paintings with a more robust sense of realism, to create a visual space which the viewer could almost enter and also act as a door way through which I can finally pass and find myself in the long awaited companionship of the of the blue moon.
This is an old painting. I painted it two years ago as a gift to my daughter, who is depicted together with her newborn.
I must admit I do not have enough discipline to do all the exercises from the Old Masters Academy course. I skipped some of the exercises on color theory — I wanted to paint my children and grandchildren straight away — that’s why I started from painting technique lessons. …
I’m a CG artist who has always dreamed of doing more with my personal artwork.
I have always admired the old masters since my childhood when I collected magazine prints of DaVinci and Raphael.
The Old Masters Academy Course is something I believe that will allow me to take my art to the next level. …
