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I love painting how-to-paint-self-taught-artist

I love painting and it is a very big part of my life

Artwork by Himanshi

… I am still struggling through sketching and oil paints. Yet I would love to learn new techniques for painting. There is a saying in our culture that you can’t ever have enough knowledge of anything and you are always learning and i wish to learn more and to enhance my skills in something i put my soul in. Trying to find a way to fulfill my dream i came across with old master academy.

I want to win because i want to learn and as being a full time student and part time employee I can’t earn enough to pay for my passion, so i will great full if i got the scholarship.

And finally please my words doesn’t matter here but my art work does so vote me based on my art work:)

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Self taught at 65 and still willing to learn

Artwork by ANTON BUTNARU

Thirty eight years ago, my best friend’s father who was a mosaic tile worker all his life, but a self taught painter, being passioned by the French and Italian old masters, showed me a few reproductions made by him, after paintings by Constable, Boucher and one by Caravaggio’s Saint Jerome Writing. The sunset came through his room’s curtain and a red drapery and suddenly the color of it was a brilliant orange. …

…I think because my painting is a humble attempt from someone aged 65, who tries to become better at understanding the way the Old Masters painted

I am a full-time artist

Artwork by Batool Khderat

… Art is what I really enjoy, I spend most of my time with it if I don’t draw or painting you will find me reading about art or watching art demo somewhere, as they keep telling me ” Batool you are eating and breathing art ” !!

“You don’t know what you don’t know “! that is exactly what I want to discover and learn, still wondering about the layers that I should use or not in each painting.

I want to learn all about the old masters, their techniques, and the materials they used. …

Art is life and life is Art

Artwork by Reni von Bifamo

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It’s never too late!…to paint!

Artwork by Terry Pike McBee

I’m a 70 year old grandmother from South Carolina. Thanks to my high school art teacher, I have always loved to paint and draw. She introduced me to all art forms…from collage to pottery to creating my own fashion catalogue to drawing and watercolors.

My “art studio” is a drop leaf table which sits between two single beds in my guest room! It’s beneath a window, looking up into a grand elm tree…very inspiring! …

Art Competition Winners – Winter 2021

Thank You!

Big thanks to all Old Masters Academy Art Competition participants and voters!

In nominating the winners, we considered how many votes they have received from other people.

And the Winners are:

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I have always had an ability to draw what I see

Artwork by Richard Lewis Westover

… When i decided to learn how to paint, i struggled; learning without a logical structure and progression. I searched; eventually setting up a five-year self-study plan like the 19th century academic painters in France. I have learned a lot since then!

Sites like Old Masters Academy are an amazing asset by showing vs telling how to draw and paint with great skill like those who influenced the Salon and École des Beaux-Arts in the first place—the old masters. It also respects art history as much as getting brushes dirty. Old Masters Academy is a contributing force breathing life back into the dead art of painting and drawing in a guild-like manner. I wish to be a part of that revolution.

I am a completely self taught artist

Artwork by MAKIS

My name is Makis Koulianos i am 35 years old i am an active duty solider in the greek army for 15 years i have no academic training or any kind of training in the arts i am completely self taught .I leave in a very small town at the border of my country and it is impossible for me to have any kind of training under an arts teacher or an atelier plus the crazy amounts of hours i put in the military…

I love the approach of the old masters

Artwork by Jerry L Gadd

The love in my life is art and painting. It’s what I think about every day. Where ever I am and what ever I see I’m thinking about how I would paint the tree or the landscape in front of me. I’ve been painting and drawing all of my life, and I paint every day and love the challenges of painting, I don’t just paint one subject or thing. My current interests include not only the Mid-Atlantic Region but places and things from all over the United States, including landscapes, seascapes, portraits, florals, and still life. …

Don’t waste your time!

Artwork by Raimonda Balandytė

Here I am. At the age of over 50 I decided to go back to drawing and painting…

Who am I? Officially a teacher of drawing!!! But… I had a dream to become a stage artist and participated in competition to become one. What did happen to me? My favorite artist in review of my paintings told me: “You can’t call this a painting, that is just soul disease.” …

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