How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials
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. …
Hi, I’m Brodie. I’m a 19 year old aspiring painter. I’m entirety self taught and have had no formal training in painting at all.
Art is the most important thing in my life and it has been for as long as I can remember really.
My greatest ambition is simply to be able to say that I’ve created something that can be called a “masterpiece”; I want to be able to compete with the greatest painters of the history of art.
I think the Old Masters Academy Course offers a great service to those who are seeking a way to make art that just isn’t taught anymore. They offer help and advice and tutoring on the methods of the greatest painters who have lived and many people have highly regarded them for their efforts in this. …
