Paintings by Robert Clark
I started painting several years ago and love to paint.
Most of my paintings are landscape and seascapes.
Several people ask if I can paint portrait or animals, and the answer is mostly no. …
How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials
I started painting several years ago and love to paint.
Most of my paintings are landscape and seascapes.
Several people ask if I can paint portrait or animals, and the answer is mostly no. …
I live in Croatia where is very bad art education. In Croatia, there is only one academy of art and four art schools. I have been surrounded by art all my life and art made a lot of influence on me.
My dad has when he was younger painted some paintings and made some wooden sculptures what were in the time displayed in the school, my mother has been fascinated by photography.
My challenge is to paint or draw something that I like and stop painting paintings that would people with some knowledge of art call pure ugliness. I would love to learn the techniques of the old masters and how to properly use art materials.
I would also like to impress people with my art. …
After my four children were all grown, I finally started painting as an almost daily practice again.
I love watching old master’s paintings, learn from them and try to make paintings inspired by them. I am trying all kinds of materials, like egg tempera, acrylic paint, watercolor and pastels, and I bought oils but die not use them because they kind of impress me.
When I was young I was always drawing and when I was eighteen I went to art school. But my parents were not very happy with it so I became a primaryschool teacher instead, and I loved teaching children, and loved doing art with them.
All those years raising my own children and teaching at school there never seemed to be time to do some painting myself. …