Old Masters Academy

How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials

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Go for oil – might be the right time for me

Artwork by Burkhard Leitner

I was painting since I was a child, with crayons, watercolors, pencils and everything else. With 14 I tried to enroll at artschool, but they refused me. So I turned away from drawing and painting for about 10 years.

Then I startet again and taught myself and learned from books and magazins. Watercolors and acrylics on canvas were and are my favourite materials, some attempts I made with digital painting on a drawing tablet, but it is not like painting with brushes and real colours.

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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. …

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I love painting portraits, I paint regularly but I am aware of the challenge ahead

Paintings by Ptak Evelyne

I am always entranced by classical paintings, especially the great mastrer’s paintings like Vermeer, Rembrandt , da Vinci, Veronese…

I was a boat people who had fled VN in 1980, when I was 25 years old. I have endured seven attacks from pirates during the flight and I still suffer from PTSD. I had difficulties to concentrate and to memorize. I had nervous breakdown and I have been hospitalized in psychiatry twice. Because of that, I could not continue working.

Doctors encouraged me to have some creative hobby. I have a fascination for old masters’ paintings and as I have a sister who painted well, and I admired her very much, I naturally choose painting and I have enrolled your drawing courses in 2013. …

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I want to paint every day a new portrait

Oil Paintings by Ton Willems

My name is Ton Willems a part time artist from the Netherlands beside a full time job in Information technology.

As a child I was always drawing comic strip characters or Cars and Trucks from examples or out of my imagination. During my school period the drawing type became a more technical type of drawing like constructions or engineering type of drawing. But after a change of study I became a Information Technology person and only working on very abstract schema like drawings. Only artificial non realistic products where produced.

A few years back I restarted with the drawing of all other things than systems and rediscovered the fun of drawing again. Drawing with pencil and ink was what I would like to do. I always told everybody that I did not like start painting because I thought this was nothing for me. “Only ‘old’ people do that when they retire.” Was my defend then.

Now at the age of 49 and not old I discovered that oil painting is fun to do and is very relaxing, although I’m exhausted after a painting session of 3 hours. …

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Paintings by Edward J Merrell

Artist engineer

I am a retired engineer who had a hidden interest in art and can now let it come to the fore.

I paint in oils several times per week and try to improve my ability. Being rather conservative, I appreciate the art of the old masters particularly Vermeer whose paintings I love to copy. …