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My name is Em and some of my earliest memories are of me drawing and painting. It has always been a way for me to process my emotions and express my personality. About 5 years ago, I decided that I wanted to take art as my career and so I started to study more seriously. I worked under an internationally awarded artist for 4 of those years and then tried to take on the art world by myself.
As a child, I dreamed of a life in art. In my twenties, I realized that I simply could not make that dream happen. For the next forty years, I built a successful career—it paid the bills but was never chosen from the heart.
At 65, I retired, and for the first time I had the freedom to return to the dream I had set aside so many years before. The last six years have been the best years of my life. Every day, I wake up eager to explore, learn, experiment, and create. I finally feel that I am becoming the person I was meant to be.
Kristin Abhalter Smith makes, performative objects, and collaborates as a designer and builder of wearable sculpture. As a curator, she co-directs RomanSusan.org since starting the artist-run exhibition and creative experimentation initiative in 2012.
I’m an animator and art enthusiast with a dream of becoming a scientific or medical anatomy illustrator. I love exploring different approaches and techniques to deepen my understanding of art.
I don't paint to impress people. I paint to leave them calmer than I found them.
My name is Natalia Samarina, a Fine Art Artist based in West Sussex, UK, known for my floral, landscape and portraiture oil paintings that blend classical elegance with a modern touch. Creativity has been part of me since childhood - from drawing and sewing to cooking and inventing - it has always been my way of exploring and celebrating life.
The Drawing Academy looks like a solid course with tutors who know the skills of craft, and that is why I would like to get this course. The best thing for me in this course is that I can receive critique on my art. My previous teachers could only tell me "well done" regardless how bad my drawings were. After checking the Drawing Academy articles with critique, I see that the teacher-student communication can be very different. Drawing Academy teachers are not afraid to tell what is wrong with students' art and how to fix those mistakes. This is exactly what I need at this time - someone who can guide me on my mistakes and teach me how to avoid them.
