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Taking a Good Look at Myself

My name is Christie Nicklay and I was born 50 years ago in Southeast Minnesota. I am a contemporary realism and sometimes painterly artist who works primarily in acrylics and oils, but also enjoy watercolor, pencil, pastels, colored pencil and pen and ink.

My artistic journey began as a child when I would draw anything and everything on anything and everything I could find. I drew constantly. There was a time when you could even find my artwork on the walls of my father’s dairy barn. Early on, teachers recognized and encouraged my artistic abilities. Eventually, I became the primary artist for my high school newspaper, clubs and organizations. As I grew, I had dreams of being a doctor, but my father encouraged me to attend school for my art, which I did and acquired my Commercial Art and Fine Art degrees…

Wanna be an artist

I am a carpenter specializing in designing and building Outdoor Living Spaces. I.e. Decks, Patios, Walkways and Outdoor Kitchens.

I took up photography for an artistic release because I always had trouble with freehand drawing especially proportions. Then I was introduced to the Andrew Loomis method and we’ll look at my submission.

Although that is copying, I want to be a real artist and I truly believe Drawing Academy will help me to accomplish this…

Love to paint

I have a dream – I want to share my art with the world.

I’m a self-taught artist with no art school education, but a draw every day to develop my gift of creativity…

AS – Art

I am Alenka Svetec from Slovenia, a self-thought artist.

I started drawing ten years ago. I did oil and pastel painting and several times I sopped for some reason. Two years from now I decided
seriously to draw and I did not stop. I am hungry for knowledge. I started to draw portraits with pencil and continue with charcoal.

For a while, I visit Drawing Academy and I decided to enter the Art Competition…

Creativity Junkie

I am 57 and have been a life long creative devotee. I chose music as my art form and found that in order to make a living as a musician that I needed to funnel all of my time into developing quite the extensive amount of variable talents. During my career I have performed for 80,000 people and for 8, toured internationally, sung on hit records, played in wedding bands, music directed plays, written jingles, lead original bands, become a multi-instrumentalist, produced records and taught piano, guitar, accordion, vocals, and songwriting to kids and adults. Four years ago I suffered a nerve injury that forced me to quit my band. During my convalescence I started drawing and found that I enjoyed it tremendously. Now I am in a different phase of my life, where I am mostly teaching, and find that I am just not that compelled by music as my route of creative expression…

Figure drawing – nude female

I am getting close to retirement and wish to spend this free time drawing for the rest of my life.

Drawing Academy is a very good way to learn classical drawing methods…