On 1 Jul, 2016 With
Feedback from Guy Keon
I have drawn and painted since my childhood. I leaned toward fantasy and comic book art as a teenager and thought my future lied in illustration.
I applied and was admitted to a number of art schools including Carnegie Melon, Brown / RISD, Temple Tyler and ultimately chose Syracuse.
I became convinced that I was talented and creative enough to change direction and drifted into a painting major. Alas college life was not for me and I quit, convinced that I was learning nothing and could learn more by doing. The ego of youth. I drifted around the fringes of being serious about art and had a few opportunities in advertising and graphic design but never had the discipline to take it to the level needed to make it a career. …
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On 1 Jul, 2016 With
Feedback from Nautaja
I am a teenager who lives in a country where people with degree can’t find a job. You can work at a private company and be treated like a trash, paid poorly of course.
It’s rear to work what you love and most of intellectual people leave my country. I don’t want to have same destiny as them, so I stayed at school, it’s going well but the problem is that we don’t have the art class, the only thing I enjoy studying in which I can get much better and try to getting in art university, it would be a dream come true. …
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On 1 Jul, 2016 With
Feedback from Don Lomas
I have been retired for the last 2 years and have regained my love of drawing portraits and full body sketches.
I managed to do a short life drawing class whilst still working and it helped me immensely, having said that I would love to improve my art to a higher degree and feel that the Art Academy course would let me achieve this. …
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On 30 Jun, 2016 With
Feedback from Kevin Nunn
Hi my name is Kevin Nunn. I am a struggling Artist from Tennessee.
I have a daughter of 9 years and a 5 year old son. A shitzu named Jasper and two kitty cats named Tiny and Bubbles. I love all of them so much!
My first paintings were terrible but I kept trying. I’ve probably painted nearly 200 paintings which mostly reside in my garage awaiting a place in a museum! …
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On 28 Jun, 2016 With
Feedback from Mariel Ypil
Scribbles on the walls. Drawings on dictionaries and storybooks. Paint between the fingernails. Ever since I was a child I have always been drawing. I didn’t think of it as much because it was just the way things are with me. It was the way I spoke my mind and my feelings, the way I could tell anyone my humble yet quite far-fetched stories. There were always the crayons that could create the landscapes, and the pencils that would magically put the characters in my stories brimming with life. It was, what I could think of at the time, the kind of magic that I could possibly have, even without the sparkles.
Grown up and still living with art, I have had so many struggles with this so-called artist life. The trials and errors, the wrong techniques, the inexperiences with mediums and color theories – there are so many things that have stumped me and left me stuck in a stage of non-progression. …
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On 22 Jun, 2016 With
Feedback from Natalie Head
I’m a visual artist who works from my little cottage studio in the Pineywoods of East Texas. There has never been a career plan B, because I have only ever wanted to be an artist. This is not a hobby or a second job. I love what I do!
As a child I remember flipping through old art history books, and learning to distinguish between the visual language or style of each artist. I felt a particular connection with the old masters; and the classical style rooted in realism sparked in me an emotional response. Art came alive for me then, and began this lifelong love. …
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On 20 Jun, 2016 With
Feedback from Sandra Alina
I was graduated as a theater critic in 2005 at the National University of Theater and Cinematographic Art, Field: Dramatic Critics, Bucharest, Romania.
From 2006 till 2008 I have worked at the “Maria Filloti” Theater, in Braila, as theater critic and festival organizer.
I hold a diploma in Fine Arts in the field of painting and experience in byzantine painting as I was involved in different art projects for churches in Romania.
Currently I am living in Valencia, Venezuela.
I want to learn how to paint like the old masters and this great site is my best opportunity.
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On 20 Jun, 2016 With
Feedback from Craig Lafferty
I studied art and graphic design 30 years ago before switching to medicine. It was actually the art that lead to a love for science and medicine. This began while researching images for an intaglio class. (These images can be seen on my site at rakedlight.com) I was so fascinated with the process of how cells and “living-connected-parts” worked, that eventually a career in science and medicine evolved.
I am now completing a full circle return to art which was initiated by my teaching anatomy & physiology at Arkansas State University.
Currently I am exploring materials and techniques in encaustic and cold wax, but it is my love for classic styles of drawing and painting that remain true after many years. …
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On 20 Jun, 2016 With
Feedback from Deivet Molina Solano
I dedicate myself to art occasionally, but I want to learn everything I can and devote full time to it. I have over 15 years of doing oil paintings and art pastel’s; experimenting with mixed media such as watercolor and pastel technique (these can be viewed on my website deivet381.260mb.net)
I have no interest in copying any other artists, I have enough clear ideas to go my own way and develop my own style, as Pablo Picasso. …
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On 19 Jun, 2016 With
Feedback from Sarah Poole
My name is Sarah. I am a mom of middle school age boys and my husband teaches math at and international school, I received a BFA in fine arts from Oregon State University way back in 1994. I am an American citizen, but presently I live in Kiev, Ukraine.
In University I found a natural inclination towards sculpture and 3D art so I focused on this while there and pursued skills in making bronze sculptures and works carved from stone. I loved it but found this sort of boundary work outside of school hard to keep on doing.
Drawing and painting have always been somewhat difficult for me, but now that I am about to be 50 years of age and I have done many interesting things with my life and am almost done raising three great boys I want to tackle the 2D arts of drawing and painting. …
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