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You are here: Home / Art Competition Archive / I felt the urge of painting my dearest persons face…
I felt the urge of painting my dearest persons face…

October 20, 2024 Leave a Comment

I felt the urge of painting my dearest persons face…

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Artwork by Emil Tirca

My name is Emil TIRCA , a 62 yo male from Romania , trained as Electronics Engineer who had nothing in common with art since drawing in elementary school and also doing space representations for solving geometry problems and being retired since April of this year.

This situation changed much some years ago, when, honestly, my marital status changed dramatically as I was suddenly and violently left alone. So I felt the urge of painting my dearest persons face, and very strange thing, I felt from the beginning I could do it .

Together with my daughter we started drawing all kind of simple objects from life. As I could see she was gifted enough, after a while i was happy to find a place at the city popular artschool and that was in 2018 as she was ten yo and I always spent some time in the atelier with the class until I finally joined that environment. Surprinsingly I had no problems in drawing still life models, feeling depth, proportions and perspective even without too much measuring after some practice .Once I heard an outsider of the atelier saying that human hand would be the most difficult to represent and those who could draw hands could draw anything, that determined me to learn from different artists such as Glenn Vippu, Marc Leoni, Stan Prokopenko, Stephen Bauman and many others on internet, books of George Bridgmann and Burne Hogarth, simultaneous with the general lockdown in 2020.

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I began studying by myself the human anathomy for artist purpose because after hands, human figure were too hard to allow me any hopefull progress.Finally after some months I managed to draw an understandible human silouette, after a photo reference, of course, realising slowly the existence of a certain philosophy ruling the process of representing objects and simulating depth of space, volumes, composition etc, everything seeming to come from life principles.

Before quitting school I succeded drawing in graphite the existing head models of Laocoon and David , or the Girl with a Mask after Stephen Baumann realising suprisingly encouraging likeness. Since portrait was my goal, I continued working with some picture references, trying directly a couple of monochrome portraits in oils. I started then adding colours , learning again some colour theory but this was the moment when I soon began to feel somehow helpless, without human advice and critique.I feel like having learnt too much with too little practice, and also problems with finishing and rendering my work.From this point of view the Old Masters Academy seems to be the most trustfull environment to reorder and strenghten my little achievements, to finally free my creative spirit, because I feel that having a master as a guidance is the true spirit and way of art. I have to admit that my destiny left no other presence of beauty and harmony , no other real joy at my age and I understand to humbly live for this purpose the rest of my life . Realising epic mythologic paintings for spiritual growth, building healthy emotion, is now my last and most valuable dream and of course winning or achieving a remarcable position in this contest would be a great push forward , a wonderfull and challenging impulse for me .I can confess that learning from so many generous artist demos on the internet made me believe that the Old Masters Academy could be the shortest path for me to reach this late but magic dream of my life and to express , in the time left, what my soul has to tell and to thank , all the gratitude for me to be born and passing threw this magnificent world.And of course this would be the reason for asking this Art Academy People to vote for this dream of mine.

Thank You, all teachers, for giving us all this chance .

I want to win this Competition and I need your help!

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