Rembrandt – Old Masters Academy

To paint like the old masters was always my aim since childhood

by Old Masters Academy
November 8, 2020November 30, 2020

Artwork by Harald Brumberg

I started to paint with oil colors when I was ten years old as an autodidact. I always liked the old masters like Rembrandt, Rubens and Dürer.

As a teenager I wanted to become a portrait-painter. After finishing school I went one year to Paris to study arts.
Quite often I was visiting the Louvre, fascinated by Mona Lisa.

Later I became an art therapist. Sketching and painting is something I do from time to time. I also like sketching caricatures.
Art is the ground of being free and to be a creator. To paint like the old masters was always my aim since childhood.
But I havn’t practise my skills very much. …

I am passionate about painting

by Old Masters Academy
January 8, 2020March 21, 2020

Artwork by Diana Licon

I have been painting for a number of years exploring a variety of mediums and styles. Art is healing for me through many instances in my life, including the drowning death of my only child. I do not have a child to leave behind, but can create artistic “children” that may last for hundreds of years.

I currently work in both oils and acrylic. I am exploring impasto techniques and have read that the old masters have explored and incorporated impasto in their work. I believe that Rembrandt, Titan and Rubens are a few who found value in this technique. I would like to learn more about this topic too. …

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I am a self-taught painter …

by Old Masters Academy
June 12, 2019August 30, 2019
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Artwork by Aleph

I am a self-taught painter and I have begun to draw since I was a child. I have studied the works of Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velasquez and in general the history of art up to our days.

Art plays an important role in my life since it allows me to meditate on things and people. There are some contemporary artists whose works are appropriate to my way of painting such as David Leffel, Sherrie Mcdraw, Gregg Kreutz, Cesar Santos and others because their painting represents a renaissance of Realism. …

Rembrandt’s mistress

by Old Masters Academy
March 26, 2019April 3, 2019

by Rosily Roberts

… In 1641, a fourth child, Titus was born, and survived. However, Saskia was unwell after the birth. In 1642, she made a will leaving Rembrandt and Titus most of her fortune, with the stipulation that Rembrandt’s share would be lost if he ever remarried. She died shortly after, aged only 30, most likely from the plague or TB, and Rembrandt was left alone with a young baby to care for. …

… The tragedy that marked Rembrandt’s personal life never stopped him from painting however, and he continued to work up until his death.

At the age of 63 now I still want to learn

by Old Masters Academy
May 18, 2018May 3, 2019

Artwork by James E Amidon

As early as I can remember, I wanted to make Art my life. Since the age of 5 years, I have been striving and pushing myself to be the best I could be. Drawing almost every day in my adolecent years up through high school, I spent hours on copying out of magazines and photos to achieve that most realistic level.

In High School there was no Art teacher so again I would take every opportunity after school to hide in my drawing, developing my shading and composition skills. …

Pursuing art and never stop

by Old Masters Academy
May 2, 2018May 3, 2019

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. …

I want to paint like the Old Masters

by Old Masters Academy
April 21, 2018May 3, 2019

Artwork by Nicolas Rodriguez

I’m a 28 years old painter from Santiago, Chile.

They say that to be a master at something the simple formula is: do what you love, and do it at the best of your abilities. Painting is my “what I love”.

When I see a painting by an Old Master, be it Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian, Hals, Degas, etc. something is stirred in me and the beauty and dedication of this masters to their works stirs something inside of me and makes me more noble.

I want to paint like the Old Masters. …

Creating art feels like you’ve suddenly become god …

by Old Masters Academy
March 31, 2018May 3, 2019

Paintings by Mariela Guerra

My name is Mariela. I am a self taught 18 year old artist. I aspire to change the world through the power of art, no matter how far fetched it sounds.

Before painting overtook all my other hobbies and convinced me to dedicate my life to it, I dabbled a bit with music, literature, and illustration. One day I decided to pick up a paintbrush and a canvas and since then my reality has changed dramatically. Something magical occurs while painting—as passion sweeps you off your feet, time ceases to exist. I remember finishing my first painting after working on it all day and feeling my reality soften. Not just metaphorically—but everything literally felt softer to the touch. Of all my hobbies the only one that has altered my perception of space and time is painting, and if that’s not enough of a reason to dedicate myself entirely to it, I don’t know what is!

Art honestly means everything to me. To me, looking at a work of art is like a chemical reaction between you, the artist, and the painting. The moment you look upon it, you, the painting, and the artist merge into one. You walk away from that painting never feeling the same again. …

I finally gathered the courage to quit my day job to learn art

by Old Masters Academy
March 25, 2018May 3, 2019
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Artwork by Parul Pancholi

My name is Parul. I am 30 years old and I reside in India. I completed my graduation 8 years ago as a software engineer. I never could find my heart with my career as a coder. Painting always came to my rescue then.

I left my job to find more jobs that paid the bills. I worked in fashion, in marketing for startups and also started my own online jewellery store but I got the feeling of belonging only during times I held my paint brush or my charcoal pencil.

Last year in May, I finally gathered the courage to quit my day job to learn art and pursue what I loved the most in life.It took me 8 long years to do this. Art courses are expensive and India doesn’t have courses that teaches classical art. So I had the intent but no direction and guidance. I realised very soon that I have to teach myself instead because it’s not going to be an easy path. Going abroad to study was not an option because I would never be able to afford the expenses. But I did not give up nor I succumbed and went back to the day job.

I am and have always been fascinated by works of the great masters like Rembrandt, Sargent, Repin, Bouguereau and so many others. I couldn’t really control the urge. So I started teaching myself to draw and paint. …

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The strugle

by Old Masters Academy
February 14, 2018May 3, 2019

Paintings by Luiz Henrique da Rocha Azevedo

During my life I always drew and, later on, painting in oil technique, introduced by my father’s collection of Fine Arts. I have this collection until the present. In one book, dedicated to Flemish and Holland Painting, was Rembrandt, Vermeer and many others.

I honour this old master and their way to make fine arts until now with my modest oil paintings and the Web Art Academy course help me to improve, and a lot, my work.
This can be seen in the later works at luizhenriqueazevedo.com

I would like to achieve my best. There is a relationship of this search and the works to be done. …