Old Masters Academy

How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials

techniques of old masters

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I would like to impress people with my art

Painting by Victoria Lian

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. …

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I want to be someone like old masters

Artwork by Saghi Komaie

I’m an art enthusiast and I read several books about medieval art, high Renaissance to baroque painting as well as working as an artist.

As you see in the picture my skills are improving everyday by working hard on forms shading and more but my problem is turning them into something 100% perfect like old masters. …

… I want to be someone like old masters I want to form my ideas and stories into high quality perfect paintings and I want to do this in my whole life …

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I am a self-taught painter

Artwork by Jorge Quiros

I am Jorge Quiros, visual artist and self-taught painter, I am an art teacher and businessman trying to undertake, I am Brazilian and I live in São Paulo, I was born in 1989.

Art is my vocation, and what frees me from my own existential yearnings is, in a way, the engine of my existence; painting emancipates me and I always feel very good after painting, with a finished job, I feel that the time I spend with art is time spent for something truly important.

I always seek to express the best possible of what my intimate asks for, my best being what I most sincerely do, I seek that sincerity in painting, but combined with academic beauty, this beauty is something charming. …

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Rubens and his painting techniques learned from the Old Masters

by Rosily Roberts

… He used a large amount of greys, blues and greens and a variety of flesh tones, often incorporating deep and luscious reds and gold in exuberance. He employed various undertones to create the illusion of depth, and define light and textures as realistically as possible. He used an abundance of colour, which he felt would dramatize his images, and applied the paint onto the canvas in thick layers in order to make the image more prominent. In order to accentuate the tones of his subjects in various lights, he used a wide range of flesh tones. He is known for painting human flesh in an expressive way, emphasizing the body’s curves and bumps, or how it looks when engaged in dynamic movement. …