On 7 Dec, 2016 With
Hello!
My name is Nick, I am 24 yo, I live in Moscow, Russia.
I’m a self-taught amateur painter. I did not receive a special art training. My financial possibilities would not let me go to the Academy of Painting in Moscow.
In Russia you can get a free college education just once, the second education costs a lot of money. I began working in the field of trade and private workshops seeking to gain the skills of academic drawing and academic painting. But the Russian school of painting has deteriorated and become little resemblance to my favourite works. …
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On 4 Dec, 2016 With
Feedback from Jessica Dosseh
I have to say I’ve always loved art and it has always been a big part of my life.
At some point in my life, someone asked me, “What type of artist are you?” At that time I didn’t know. Determining who you are and where you belong is one of the most challenging things in life.
All I want is to learn and to keep on learning so one day my art may have an impact on someone else’s life no matter how small. …
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On 4 Dec, 2016 With
First ever oil painting from Albert Jerka, Web Art Academy student
Hello, this is my finished painting from the first lesson. I really love the Web Art Academy course and am proud of my achievement so far. …
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On 1 Dec, 2016 With
Feedback from Nancy Quin
My great aunt was a very successful artist and teacher in Mississippi, Marie A. Hull. As we visited Jackson often from Dallas, she was often teaching and allowed me to join in. The simple realization of how exceptional she became continues to drive me to grow as an artist.
Discipline, education and hard work prevailed in her example to artist. “You can not successfully break the rules until you know them all”. With this determination to take art seriously, really learn to see with detail, and sketch till you fall asleep, I hope to continue to know the growth and the achievement with the limited years I have ahead. …
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On 1 Dec, 2016 With
Feedback from Lis Engel
Art has always been my greatest passion and interest. I started to paint with oils when I was 12 year old, because an gallery owner at Bornholm (small Danish Island) liked my drawings and pastel paintings. He showed the basics of oil painting and from then I was completely dedicated that that was what I wanted to do.
But my family was poor and did not want me to go to art academy fearing that it would not be an education that would be able to support me in a secure way. …
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On 30 Nov, 2016 With
List of all Web Art Academy Competition Winners
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On 30 Nov, 2016 With
Thank you! Big thanks to all Web Art Academy Survey participants. All entries are listed here » We are also grateful to all supporters, who voted for the winners. And the Winners are: Mercedesz Farkas http://webartacademy.com/art-is-like-beeing-in-love-by-mercedesz-farkas “When I do something, I am really passionate about it. I like to create and learn new things but don’t have a creative career at the moment. I work in a hospital in an intensive care unit as a nursing assistant and am married with five children, two of whom have already moved out. Our family lives in an average sized Swedish town but we are originally from Hungary. Because of loving my own culture, language, literature and traditions I am able to do…
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On 30 Nov, 2016 With
I am a mother of 5 and grandmother of 10. I am 58 years old.
As a younger woman of 23 my husband and I were stationed in Germany with the Air Force. I had three young children and really wanted something to do for myself. A friend had taken classes from Mr. Hertzfeld and encouraged me to try it out. I thought about it and decided it would be what I needed. I didn’t understand then what a treasure I had stumbled upon. Since those days I often have wished for a different ending to my art experience. …
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On 29 Nov, 2016 With
Feedback from Kathy Winemiller
At age 17 I was awarded a scholarship to do fashion design at the Art Institute in Chicago. My parents felt I was to young to go to Chicago and I had to decline the scholarship.
As years passed I decided to take an oil painting class where I rekindled my passion for art. The past 3 years I have painted a few paintings, but currently am studying with an actual art instructor. I am drawn to the impressionist style of painting and feel this is what my style of painting is closest to. …
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On 10 Nov, 2016 With
Feedback from Anet Louw
I am a self-taught artist from Cape Town South Africa.
My dream as a small child was always to become an artist. Unfortunately I grew up in a town where art was not on the curriculum of subjects in High School and also not a very serious one in Primary School, and to top it all my parents thought like other older people did: art is for weirdo’s!
I always did my own and my friends Biography sketches during my High School years. One of my fellow pupils remember me as someone who was always drawing in class on pieces of paper. …
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