SUMMER RESIDENCY
Fast & Fun Painting Exercises for Overthinkers
with Julie deBoer, Professional Artist & Mentor
You’ll loosen-up your style and learn to trust your artistic intuition without overthinking!
You Will Learn:
Release perfectionism and paint with greater freedom and flow
Build confidence through repetition and increase trust in your innate artistic instincts
Convey emotion and energy through loose brushwork and mark-making
See and prioritize color and value relationships before detail
Audience: Fine Art Painters
Medium: Appropriate for All Painters
Stages: Aspiring, Emerging
Session Dates & Times:
July 8, 15, 22, 29 August 5, 12, 19, 26
10 am-11 am MDT / 12 pm-1 pm EDT /
5-6 pm BST
$198.00
12 in stock
WORKSHOP Description
Loosen-up your style and learn to trust your artistic intuition without overthinking!
Paint-a-long with Julie deBoer and learn a variety of fast and fun painting exercises, designed to engage your creative brain and turn off perfectionism.
By working within short time limits, using a variety of limited reference material, and other creative constraints, you’ll learn how to bypass over analyses and respond more naturally to color, value, and composition to create more authentically and uniquely.
We’ll also talk about confidence, the inner critic, and imposter syndrome and how to overcome it.
Want to paint with more expressive brushwork? Want to convey emotion in your work? We’ll examine the work of masters and learn the tools and techniques at our disposal to convey meaning and emotion in our own work.
You’ll be amazed at how quickly your confidence and artistic intuition will grow!
🎥 WORKSHOP RECORDINGS available for 1-YEAR after the workshop ends!
🎥 NOTE: Workshop Recordings may be offered for sale at a future date at Mastrius, with the consent of the instructor.
High School, University, and College students get 20% OFF. See FAQs at the bottom of page.
Supply List
•10-20 small canvases (canvas boards is fine) OR watercolor paper and watercolor tape for canvas boards – variety of small sizes is ideal: 8×8, 10×10, 8×10 etc (no larger than 12×12) if using watercolor paper you can tape off small sizes
• a variety of paint colors plus white in whatever medium you use: acrylic, oil, watercolor, pastel, etc
• Large, medium, and small paint brushes
• A variety of random tools: Acrylic or India ink pens, markers, pencil crayons, chalk pastels, rollers, palette knifes, spray bottle, paper towel, sponges, etc
• Some exercises are best done standing, so an easel or wall mount is ideal, but not required.
• Pen and paper for notetaking.
• An adventurous spirit!
Instructor Bio
My life is art. It’s about the creation of art, the support of artists, and impacting the world positively through art. I believe in and am building a non-competitive community at Mastrius, where artists can grow their skills and pursue their passions together, because…
ART is powerful and purposeful. It is not about making pretty things to hang on the wall, to match the curtains. Art changes our perspective and opens us up to something much deeper, higher, and grander than ourselves.
Creating unique impressions of the world as I see and experience them, is life-giving to me, and it seems, to those who enjoy my work. I am a deep-welled person, sensitive in every way a person can be, which heightens my awareness and ability to connect with people through my art. Though it also makes life more painful, it also makes it more beautiful and I’m grateful for it.
My smooth, flowing, moving landscapes capture the interaction I experience with nature.
God says “the sky speaks, the heavens proclaim, even the rocks cry out, the mountains and hills break into singing, the trees of the forest sing for joy!” This is what I see glimpses of and hear whispers of when I’m in nature.
THIS is my JOY and PURPOSE in creating art, to translate my experience into a visual, inspiring, joy-filled, and powerful visual display.
