My name is Svetlana Djurdjevic, I was born in Serbia in Belgrade, 15 June 1969, I graduated from a school for massage therapists, in high school I had painting lessons I live now in USA Wilmington, and want to learn more about painting.
I sew my sister paint something and copied it, then I started painting airoplains with bombs on them that was when I was 6 or 7.
My main challenge in art is making the correct color.
Photographer Josef Fischnaller shoots portraits that recreate famous paintings by the Old Masters, often including some humorous modern day elements in the scene. To Your Creative Success, Natalie Richy and Vladimir London Web Art Academy Founders
I started to draw when my mom came home from a drawing class she was taking. I could see in her portfolio that she had a sketch of my sister and I. It triggered something inside that started my journey.
When I turned 17 a gallery accepted me to be an artist. I have been at this gallery ever sense. Its just I get commissions for paintings and I never got taught how to mix. I have been getting trained by a painter next store. I just hate to take her time. …
I have drawn and painted all my life.
It’s who I am.
Yet I find I am never satisfied and always yearning to learn,expand and further developed my skills.
I have won awards and also pioneered several art groups and creative recovery course as well as performance painted for 8 years with a band. …
I started oil painting at a very late time, in my sixties. I used to draw as a youth, but always thought that oil painting was too difficult a medium to attempt. As I reached my late fifties, I began to become more immersed in the experience of viewing great oil paintings in museums in America and Europe. I had always enjoyed viewing great art, but as I got older, I discovered that experience touched me more deeply, giving me a feeling of being in touch with the eternal. Some great works by 19th century realists such as Courbet had a particularly profound effect on me. …
I have always wanted to learn to paint and draw, as a child i was able to draw, even won a prize when I was 12. I drew my teacher in school, and this drawing was used in an exhibition of drawings made by students in my hometown in the Netherlands.
When I hit puberty life hit me too, I left home when I was 14 and stopped my creative learning process. Always longing to do that but had to struggle mentally and physically to remain healthy and alive. I managed quite well, got better at living and even managed to build a career.
Caravaggio’s crimes exposed in Rome’s police files Michelangelo Merisi, aka Caravaggio, was notoriously bad-tempered and violent, constantly getting into physical altercations, confident that his moneyed patrons would fish him out of scrape after scrape. They mainly did, as it happened, and when they didn’t, he just skipped town for a while until the heat was off him. The stories about him have become part of his legend — the bad boy artist who lived fast, died young and left a sunstroked/syphilitic/stabbed/lead poisoned corpse — and it’s difficult to tell fact from gossip. Rome’s State Archives contain a myriad primary documents detailing Caravaggio’s many brushes with the law (among other information about his life and work) but until recently they were on…
Drawing and cartooning since a very young age. Appreciated the Renaissance masters, but youth and lack of discipline blocked a true growth. Now older, I have set to learn more and apply such skills in my vocation of caricature.
I am 42 been painting as therapy for 20 years, I have been HIV positive for 24 years. For the past 16 years I have worked as hiv educator in South Africa but my mental heath forced me to live in a home for disabled. The only thing that keeps me going is my art, I spend my government grant on rent and art supplies. Thank you for this opportunity. …