Painting by Polina Kosh
My story
I’m a self taught artist who does portrait pencil drawing & painting in watercolour. My father is a fine-art teacher, so his skills and art atmosphere is always around me from the childhood…
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I want to learn art
Feedback from Aleksandra
I was born in Vladivostok, Primorsky kray. I am left-handed and draw anywhere, anytime, as long as I can remember. As a kid I was a sickly child, so in the art school managed to study for only one year, during which the teacher said that I have an extraordinary talent for drawing…
Web Art Academy Survey Winners – Spring 2016
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The goal of life
Painting by Svetlana Belova
Hello! My name is Svetlana Belova. I am from Russia.
I return to art during all of my life and now I decided to be a professional artist. I have some experience in digital illustration and oil painting. I do commissioned works. However, I realize that I need to study. I love painting and want to do it my main thing in life…
Finding joy and relieving stress through art
Story by Lori Lewis
I have spent my whole life working in a job that has nothing to do with art but always felt something was missing in my life. As a child I always drew and colored on any surface that was in front of me. As I got older, I became less involved in drawing and painting but still went to museums and collected the artwork of others. About ten years ago, my son became a green beret in the army and while I am truly proud of him, the stress of it is very real. I became depressed and gained weight worrying about the danger he was always in and had to find a better way of dealing with my emotions…
Realize your passion, and make it happen!
Story by Elizabeth
To tell you about myself, and my love of art, would take a lifetime. However, I shall try and give you a brief synopsis. My love for art started very young. Even at a young age, I wanted to learn how to draw and paint, just like the old masters. I would try to learn all I could about the old masters, not only their life but how they painted and why. I would spent hours trying to find out anything that I could, to help me learn. But, my yearning was never to be fulfilled. For the family I was born into, wasn’t a happy one. On the outside, people assumed we were happy and had a loving, caring family. But behind closed doors it was quite the opposite. I tell you this, not for pity, but to help you understand just where art takes place in my life…
Artworks and story by Romessa Rahman Shinwari
My highly uncertain,dependent future
My name is Rromessa Rahman Shinwari (female) and i am 17 years old. I have developed great interest in art since my childhood, not that i had some inspirational personalities in my life.
Artworks and story by Butterfly-Gift
The artist who became broken
I am an artist with a broken heart. I drew ever since I was little but I remember that one day painting my pictures in Crayola watercolor palette with my little pink chair and table saying. “when I grow up I want to be an artist.” From that point on drawn but the real person who told me never give up my was my 5th-grade teacher she loves to see what I made only to seen later on I was multi-talented between singing and my art never gave up on either. But I think art help through life the most…
Artworks by Adelina Kuzmina
From coldest place to warmest hearts!
I am 53 year old asian woman from russian Siberia who lives in Thailand. My birthplace is very, VERY cold! It is coldest place on the whole world. That is why I have decided to move in Chiang Mai when I retired. Chiang Mai is best place for artists and creative people. Lovely nature, lovely people. So many warm hearts around me! 2 years ago I recalled my children’s dream to become an artist and tried to draw. Now I have enough time to do what I really want. My favorite materials are charcoal and pencil, but last month I became to painting by oil colors and it is wonderful! …
Thirst and Passion
Feedback from James Eugene Amidon
I was born in Downey, Calif. May 20, 1955 (today’s date).
As early as I could remember, I had the passion and desire to becoming an artist, and told my mother so when I was only 5 years old. I soon saw that my drawing skills were different than my classmates as far as detail and accuracy, and continued to draw as much as I could.
In High School, being from a low income and rural area, there was no art instruction to gain any other knowledge from, so I continued to spend hours on my own after school drawing everything from National Geographic and other magazines I found interesting. …