Art Competition Winners – Autumn 2019
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.
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Becoming a Painter
Artwork by Janice Heligman
I have been an artist in some capacity or other for most of my 62 years. I have been creating since I was a small child.
Art is the biggest part of my life now that my children have grown and moved away.
I need to learn the proper way of layering paint so to create deeper, richer paintings. Your classes look so interesting to me and the students who post obviously have learned a great deal from them. I want to win the Old Masters Academy course so that I too may be a student who can post her paintings in a testament to your class. …
Real master
Artwork by Hans Mozer
… My home is my workshop. My living room is 30m2 also packed with paintings and my 4 studio easels. So i work at 6-8 paintings at the same time. 2 easels are handmade by me. In the summer i can work in my garden.
All i’m missing now is the technic to lift my work to a next level.
Cutting Through the Canvas
Artwork by Linder Kaur
Me? I guess it’s about living life in the fullest way possible including the placement of Art in your life. I paint sporadically. Sometimes full of Passion turning out a dozen paintings.., and then sometimes abject disappointment with my projects that lie sitting on the shelf.
I think its due to lack of learning the basics why the drawings and paintings never match what goes on inside my head. I am battling through the Anatomy Master Class and have learned a lot. Takes a lot of repetition to train the brain. I have seen the difference the course has made with my figurative paintings. Now the people I paint look more lifelike, have movement and don’t look so arthritic. …
Old Masters Academy review by Maria Ohamsky
Before and After by an Old Masters Academy student
…At my lowest point, a friend of mine from the college gave me a book titled Better Than College. This book has changed my life. I took it as guidance. I stopped playing the victim and started to find alternatives to college. One day, I stumbled upon the Old Masters Academy website. There, I realized that what I really want to do is not illustration but classical oil painting. This was a big shift in my understanding of art.
I am a Self-taught paintress
Artwork by Catalina Diaz
… I was attracted like a moth to the fire to the Old Masters technique since long ago, and I set myself to the quest of it, I found a teacher that brought to me the Venetian Technique, a blending of Temperas and other materials used by the Old Masters. I want this, I want to know how they do it, I want to master it, I want to reach the same beauty, boldness, contrast, textures, light that they master. …
… I’m impressed about what you teach here, I’m excited about the wealth of information here, I’m eager to find that this is the next step in my quest. …
… I want to bring new ideas and new art with the power and beauty and technicity of the Old Masters Technique.
Art now occupies about 80% of my time
Artwork by Brian F Alward
I am 79 years old, retired, and about 10 years into making my senior years productive with fine art. …
… I also taught myself about the mediums of watercolor and acrylics and took some oil lessons.
Art now along with moderate exercise occupies about 80% of my time. …
… I think that, from the description presented in the outline of this course, that the Old Masters Academy can help project me to that end.
The one with the flaws!
Artwork by Dhrumil Patel
… I came to know about Old Masters Academy recently and just amazed how good it is, to learn and understand the process of paintings. I am excited to find something so real!
I want to learn and expand my skills as I am aware that I need a lot of practice and skill development. But for that, I need a guidance and Old Master Academy can surely provide me that. …
I want to leave a legacy behind through art
Artwork by Yasmeen
… The Master’s paintings seem so effortless and unique however when I watched videos on old masters academy website, I realised that dead layer was used with various other techniques. Such valuable information is not readily available on YouTube, and I am sure Old Masters Academy has a much bigger treasure of knowledge that an artist can learn from.
I have tough times and sometimes I am not happy with the outcome of my painting, I would consider myself fortunate if I get selected, I would utilize every lesson and perfect the techniques to better myself as an artist.
I am 40 and can’t go back to school to learn if I win this competition I will be able to fulfil my dream without quitting my job. Art is how I wish to leave my legacy behind.
I woke up and had the urge to just paint and create…
Artwork by Amanda Rozanski
I’m a single mum of two who in all honesty only recently discovered a love for painting. …
… I’m wanting to learn more how to create depth and atmosphere. The old masters Academy seems like the perfect fit!
I love the idea of being to learn from great artists like they’re still here, in an age where so much of our lives is on a screen, we need to make sure the ability to create beautiful art that tells a story and can be passed down the generations as a physical piece not just an image on a screen is not lost. …
