Apprenticeship, Oil Painter-to-be, Influences

I’m  Painter  Rogerio Baungarten’s apprentice and for now I’m acquiring the necessary skills as a drawing copyist, copying of new and old masters that I enjoy. For a better understanding of where I’m at I’ll share  the school curriculum. It comprises of drawing fundamentals in pencil applied to the acclaimed Charles Bargue method,  copies from Old Masters of Oil Painting with charcoal while exploring all medium possibilities, sight-size drawing ,  still life, live model  sessions, training in soft pastel paving the way to oil painting.  

 My  goal is to become an oil painter with original work when I complete the curriculum.

I’m seriously in love with illustration, especially with James Gurney's and Glen Orbik's . The reason why I try to learn so much from illustration is due to illustrators canny solutions to  pictorial problems drawn from nature making the painting/drawing into a more dramatic piece, adding twists and turns to it.    I also look up to James Bama, Donato Giancola, Morgan Weistling, Michelangelo, Peter Paul Rubens, Teresa Oaxaca, Robert Liberace, Casey Baugh, Robert Wade, Mary Whyte, Rembrandt, Andrew Loomis, J.C. leyendecker, John Rowe, Daniel Greene, David Kassan,  Anthony Ryder, Jeffrey Mims,Gil Elvgren, John  Howard  Sanden, Paul Brown,  Pat Devonas, Giovanni Civardi, Antonio Ciseri, blanes, Tiepolo, Canaletto, William Maughan, Richard Lundgren,  Henry Yan, William Bouguereau, Richard Schmid, Howard Terpning, Martin Grelle, Robert Griffing ,Jacob Collins, Daniel Gerhartz, Steve hanks, Max Ginsburg, Michael Grimaldi, Mian Situ, Steven Assael, Yu-Tang Yang, William Whitaker, Roy Andersen,Nelson Shanks,Lorrain, John Singer Sargent, Zhaoaming wu, Shane  Wolf, Nancy Glaizier.