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To paint like the old masters was always my aim since childhood-self-thaught-artist

November 8, 2020 Leave a Comment

To paint like the old masters was always my aim since childhood

Artwork by Harald Brumberg

I started to paint with oil colors when I was ten years old as an autodidact. I always liked the old masters like Rembrandt, Rubens and Dürer.

As a teenager I wanted to become a portrait-painter. After finishing school I went one year to Paris to study arts.
Quite often I was visiting the Louvre, fascinated by Mona Lisa.

Later I became an art therapist. Sketching and painting is something I do from time to time. I also like sketching caricatures.
Art is the ground of being free and to be a creator. To paint like the old masters was always my aim since childhood.
But I havn’t practise my skills very much. …

Filed Under: Art Competition Archive Tagged With: Harald Brumberg, portrait painter, Rembrandt, Rubens, Sketching and painting

Old Masters Academy review-how-to-paint-Vermeer self-portrait

February 20, 2020 Leave a Comment

Old Masters Academy review by V. Salonen

Artworks Before and After the Old Masters Academy course

Unfortunately, I do not have any “before” artworks to showcase as I just started on my artist’s way. I always thought that to draw you have to be an artist, and for me, as an IT support engineer, there is nothing to do with a pencil apart from making notes. I become an IT support engineer because it was my parents’ wish. I could not have my own opinion on this subject because as they put it, I was “too young to know for sure what is good for me and what is not.”…

My greatest hope is to become a self-sufficient artist. I’m twenty-eight right now, and I have calculated that I need at least three years of painting and preparing a strong portfolio of artworks to change my current profession for my dream occupation—to be an independent artist, specifically a portrait painter. …

Filed Under: Old Masters Academy ™ Reviews Tagged With: portrait painter, self-sufficient artist, vermeer self-portrait

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