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Sun of culture !!!
Feedback from Faramarz
I have been painting since thirty years ago with twenty years of teaching and the reason is because I love painting but it was too hard to start and I was facing with many difficulties to reach a little satisfaction.
I believe that painting make me relief and steady in my life so I can give it to others for the cultural reasoning. …
My paintings Before and After the Course
Artwork by Nathalie Bernard, Web Art Academy student
Artist’s pursuit of happiness.
Feedback from Sandeep Soni
I am a petroleum engineer, working in oil industry in abu dhabi, uae. My hobbies include paintings, drawings, playing guitar, traveling.
I want to make my career in fine art field. For this I need to gain more confidence to get in this field, and leave my current field.
I started painting and drawing since my childhood. But during my engineering and job, I was not frequent.
I did two exhibitions during my art career.
It had been a while (3 years) since I again started painting. Now I am more serious and wants to pursue my art career with all energy and passion. …
Always An Artist
Feedback from Elizabeth Hancock
I’ve always been an artist. As a young girl I used to enjoy drawing and mixing the real with the imaginary. I think creatively and am always attracted to all kinds of art expression.
I’ve always wanted to experiment with oils. They are intimidating, complex, yet forgiving and soft. There is so much variety to an oil painting’s creation which really attracts me.
I’d love to learn to paint like the Old Masters with precision, control, confidence, and beauty. I know that if I can learn the proper techniques this medium will be very rewarding for me! …
If I am ever going to be an artist I better get started before I run out of time
Feedback from Maurice Hershberger
I am now in my 80th year and only began painting from books, videos and workshops 10 years ago.
So why did I start so late in life? Like so many others out there, when I was a teenager I wanted to study art but my father and the counselor at high school totally dissuaded me from going to art school, so I headed out on a different path.
I picked something that could earn me a living and something I would like. As the years rolled by I found myself describing all the paperwork I was doing as “works of art”, even though they were far from that, being merely columns of numbers. …
Never to Late Artistic Awakening
Feedback from Barbara
I was born in England of Polish descent, the third child of five children.
My parents came to England after the Second World War. Art was not part of my life. My parents and grandparents struggled to keep us fed and clothed.
During my early teenage life I loved to draw and paint but it was not encouraged.
Throughout my teaching career as a computer teacher I incorporated the graphic arts into the curriculum as much as I could. I recently retired and art has become the center of my life.
I am a beginner with an avid desire to learn how to draw and paint realistic portraits, figures, objects and scenes. I am learning how to paint with gouache and acrylics and practice my drawing and painting skills daily. Art releases tension, frees me from restrictions, and brings joy, peace and satisfaction. …
What helped Michelangelo to keep creating masterpieces.
… Letters written by the artist suggest his hand symptoms appeared late in life.
According to a letter written to his nephew in 1552, they caused him great discomfort.
Nevertheless he continued to create one masterpiece after another and was seen hammering only a few days before his death in 1564, three weeks before his 89th birthday.
By then, he was unable to write, and could only sign his letters. …
$174 millions for Rembrandt – Louvre breaks record
France and the Netherlands signed a historic deal on Monday acquiring two large Rembrandt portraits for €160 million ($174 million), the French culture ministry announced.
He added it was a new concept in the museum world for two countries to work together to obtain works from a private collection.
In 1634, the year Rembrandt completed the portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, he was, at the age of only 28, the most fashionable portrait painter in Amsterdam.
These portraits are among the grandest he ever painted —lasting tributes to the status of his sitters and the importance of their patronage to the young artist. …
Starting Where I Left Off
Feedback from Nell
I have been drawing since I was six years old. I was always able to look at an image and become inspired to come up with something of my own.
While growing up though I had eventually stopped because I didn’t have the support and encouragement to do it; I was actually laughed at by my family instead of encouraged, but as I am an adult and mother now I am at the point in my life where I want to do what makes me happy.
I would like to learn more about art and paint more. I’ve been painting now for a while and it’s very therapeutic for me. I find I can get lost in it and feel free. I also plan on trying to take an art class at night if time allows me on campus so I can continue in my creative endeavors. …