Old Masters Academy

How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials

old master's painting techniques

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Old Masters Academy review by Mojca Novak

Before and After by an Old Masters Academy student

As a child, I had art lessons, and afterwards our family friend taught me to paint in oils. He was a good painter, but the techniques he used and taught me were very different from what I saw in museums. …

… Shortly after enrolling in the Old Masters Academy online painting course, my approach in oil painting started to shift. I no longer paint in all-prima. Even though this technique is fast and straightforward, I want to attain in my paintings a different feel, which is only achievable with multiples glazes. I’m still learning. It takes much longer to make one portrait with this new technique I learned in the Old Masters Academy, but the result is worth it. …

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Pursuing art and never stop

Paintings by Yue Wang

I like doing art when I was young, I don’t remember for what reason I would like to join in an art class to learn professional art skills, but I do remember that I really admired my classmates who can drawing a 3D geometric shape with whole rendering. That was so cool to me at that time, so I told my parents I want to take an art class to learn drawing, then learning art has never stopped.

I like realistic artworks, like the old master’s painting. Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Vermeer and so on. My artistic challenges are mixing color and rendring method, like mixing a skin color that looks transpenrant and smoothly transfer to another color. Recent years, I’m learning the classical oil painting techniques, but I coulden’t find any comprehensive, detailed and understandable oil painting technique course. I bought the book, but it is hard to understand for some parts. Until I found several videos of OLD MASTER ACADEMY, which talk about the old master’s painting techniques and what oil paint they used, that really helpful to me as a self-learner.
I realize this is what I’m looking for. …