Julie Rabischung 23 Jun 2011

Hi all !

I'm also self -taught and I create fantasy and magical paintings in watercolour.

I always loved to draw but I started to experiment with watercolour and to learn drawing techniques seriously two years ago.

Below is a thumb of my latest painting.

Feel free to leave me a message if you want to talk about fantasy art or share tips !

Peter Ceccon 01 Jul 2011

I started painting when I was 27 years old. I educated myself by reading art books, going to museums/galleries and by painting

Howard C Simpson 23 Aug 2011

Self taught, always a student of the arts!

Dave Priestley 16 Sep 2011

I'm self taught.

I used to paint quite surrealist cartoony stuff with acrilics, usualy on paper, just as a hobby, then 12 years ago my daughter was born, and as anyone with children knows, when a baby arrives, hobbies tend to get shelved for a while.

Anyway, I got out of the habit of painting and found lots of other things to do with my time, then about 3 years ago, I was watching a program about art and was suddenly inspired to paint again after all those years, but I wanted to do something different to what I had done before, something more traditional, I wanted to paint my daughter's portrait in oils.

Problem was, I had never been able to paint portraits, so I bought some oils and some canvases and sat down with a mirror and just practiced painting myself over and over again, until eventualy I was ready to paint my daughter.

That was just the beginning, now I have just started my own professional portrait painting business (and I'm also painting landcapes, still life, pets and wildlife too) called 'Pendle Portraits', it's early days yet but hopefully things will take off.

This is a painting I recently did for a friend of his parents to celebrate their Golden Wedding aniversary

Estrella Rivera 17 Sep 2011

I am self-taught and so new here. Check out my art and enjoy.... :)

Trsor Cath 19 Sep 2011

Same for me. I'm a autodidact artist too. I think that the art is already a question of sensibility. The learning comes during, of course, because are needed bases. But to be an artist, it is especially to let the creative energies invade us.

Elin Arwidson 28 Oct 2011

Hi! Im self thought, just started to paint a few weeks ago, and let myself go. Think it is about not thinking, not analyzing...

nichole sypher 08 Dec 2011

I'm self taught in my craft...cut paper art. I've never had a class on it, I wish there was one!

Melissa Davies 14 May 2012

self taught through many hours of watching bob ross and reading art books. I of course did the art classes in high school but I just from a single digit age have loved color on paper by my hand. I love the freedom of doing whatever I want on paper and I love hearing the reactions of others. My daughter is on the same path as well, each day she asks for her art mock and aper and painsss. shes 2 and her and I sit and paint together until she starts after my commisions but its been a joy to see her show the same love I did at her age and I hope it continues. I think self taught is better than schooling because what you learn is through you and what you love not anothers ideas. I dont think art class is bad, since now I have my own flow and style I would like to go to perfect and clean up but to start I believe a artist should develop their since and learn about the style that draws them the most..ooops I rambled sorry!

Jack Feagan 04 Jun 2012

Add me to the list of self taught artists. I did have a great art teacher in High School that pointed me in the right directions. With my natural born talent I have been very successful in my art career. I began as a comic book cartoonist and I still love cartooning. My fine art accomplishments include permanent paintings depicting the Civil War in a Museum in Beaumont, TX.

Mildred King 06 Jun 2012

wow! this is a first for me to see so many other self taught artists. Randy your ballpoint art is phenomenal. that looks like a Golden Eagle to me; Am I correct?

Millie King

Ricky Corbett 08 Jun 2012

Hi Everyone,

I am a self taught artist myself. I never had any formal art training...no art courses. I used to watch a show called "Captain Bob" as a kid, Captain Bob was an artist who drew in crayons every Sunday morning. But other than that, I'm completely self taught. Spent many hours studying the Old Masters and copying their works. They used Oils and I used graphite.

This is a great topic, I love to see responses from other self taught artists.

Charles Jones 08 Jun 2012

It looks very much like this thread will outlive the person who started it. :) I too am self-taught. When I went to public school there was no such thing as art class---though I do remember making a lovely swan from a large bar of hand soap in the third grade. And it floated!

In college I was an English major, having been severely bitten by the poetry bug, but I had already been drawing for years. I remember signing up for life-drawing class only to get bumped from it because I wasn't an art major. I went to the undergraduate art shows and---well, they WERE undergraduates. :)

The need to express ourselves has very little to do, ultimately, with Academia.

pat hedderman 20 Jun 2012

I do what I love and I love what I do. I taught myself how to use a computer and taught myself graphic design.

Edwardo setien 23 Aug 2012

Learning by myself was very good because I do not have influence from somobody else. I started to use my fingers and hans and created this huge artwork I called "Embryo" Fingerpainted with oils finished with brushes.

mustafa abdulhakeem 27 Aug 2012

Am self taught too...started darwing since age 7, in elementary school. Tried out a lot of media out of curiousity, I love doing ball point drawings too

Brittni DeWeese 16 Oct 2012

I do not paint. (Wish I could though.) But I am a self taught charcoal "artist". Just within the past few months, I fell back in love with drawing! Hope to make some extra cash at it, but if not, having fun just creating and growing and becoming better :).

stephen yochum 12 Dec 2012

i started off self taught but about to finish my bach. of art degree at SOSU love art

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Tina Hernandez 23 May 2013

Hi, I am a Self Taught Artist, Love to Draw, Paint, And Create, since I was a Little Girl.