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Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci is my favorite figure in history not only because of his accomplishments in art, but also because of his unsurpassed amount of talents in almost every discipline, and his tenacious working ethics.

I first encountered art at the age of 3 and was drawn to it ever since. Throughout my childhood drawing had been a daily routine, almost equally as important as eating and drinking, and in a way it is, as it has become the sustenance for my mind and soul…

Find the right path

Hi everyone!

I was born and lived my whole life in Poland. Although my path wasn’t always clear, I finally found it. I believe that art is what makes my limbs move every morning. For some time I was trying to convince myself that I do not need it, that I can aspire perfection in any other field and be happy with it. That is not true. Without drawing and painting I was always missing something…

Following my Dream

I started drawing and painting very young with my first original oils from my sister’s leftover paint by number kit and on cardboard saved by my mother. I was always drawing on the back of paper she saved that was clean on one side. Nothing was wasted; it was recycling before it was cool.

I did not go to art school because it was not a practical choice to my family so I went for design instead. I ended up drafting architectural plans because they were needed for permits for contractors, architects and homeowners building their dreams with my drawing tools and never went into computer-aided design but I was able to help support my family with it when my husband was in college and my kids were little…

Art is My Life

I have always been interested in faces, no idea why. Sometimes, when I am speaking to someone, I find myself drawing their face in space with my index finger.

One day, out of the blue, I decided to start walking through my neighborhood, stopping people that I thought looked “interesting” and asking them if I could take their photo. I collected about 75 shots of people that lived here in my Chicago neighborhood.

Over the following year, I drew about 50 or so portraits, using graphite pencils. Looking back, I wouldn’t show these to anyone today, although I learned a lot about technique. I picked up some excellent hints from the Drawing Academy site (along with some YouTube videos) and have been continuing my journey…

Bored with the Mortar Board

My name is Peter Williams and I have recently graduated with a B.A. Hons in fine art from university. With my qualification well secured under my cap, or should I say mortar board, I feel ready to put this futile experiment behind me and to start to learn how to paint and draw. This may sound a little cynical, but these feelings are well founded and have their roots in the modern model of art tuition, a model which only serves as an engine for frustration. From this model, the idea or concept reigns supreme, and technique sits in the back benches, suppressed by the Lords of modern isms and conceptual constraints…

I dream art

My name is Ibrahim, I graduated from the law college in Egypt. Despite my education in law, I could not stop thinking of being an artist.

I draw and paint from very young age; learned every thing by trying over and over again and never give up…

practice doing shading with several rather then 1 pencil.

I’m an artist who studied drawing over 16 years ago and been drawing ever since…

My name is Joan Elizabeth White, I sign all my art with my middle name Elizabeth J White. I am a self taught artist. I have been drawing and creating since further back than I can recall.

I use to keep my art myself but at the urging of my (now late) sister Tyra I started to show my artwork, she passed away before my first art show from a long battle with Cancer. Since then I would say around 2011 I have really worked hard at getting my art into the public…

Artistic Hands of Faith

I was born in Los Angeles, California to wonderful parents. My mother was the oldest of 15 children, an aspiring artist, but never achieved her goals because she had to take care of her brothers and sisters. My father was a master carpenter and had artistic skills in building. Between the both of them I was given the artistic talent and a gift from God to be able to draw and paint as an “unschooled” artist. I have never taken art classes because I could never afford them…

…it was then that I carried you

I am a dreamer stuck in the real world. Art and music make my soul happy :)

That moment when the right brain is engulfed in artistic and creative focus, kind of like being in a dreamy trance, is like heroin for my soul…