Mentoring Emerging Artists Not sure if you’re an emerging artist? Find your stage here.
MEDIUM: Acrylic Paint | Watercolor Paint | Mixed Media Art SPECIALTY: ✔ Generalist
Teaching is my life, paired with painting and moving through the world creatively. Working with other painters to help them identify, refine, and express their version of beautifully different or compelling is one the passions I hold most dear. As a self-taught artist of 18 years, I came about this journey of art through unique circumstances and found that it held great potential for helping me learn to connect and express how I feel about my human experiences through the incredible combination of paint, pigment, and paper.
When I knew I needed a style I didn’t have an academic program, professor, or mentor to help me understand how to develop that, so I turned inward and committed a year to studying and defining what gives an artist their ‘style.’ That was the most important year of my life professionally because it equipped me with understanding the head space, skills, and heart connection that every artist needs to curate their own visual language and use it to express a narrative of their choice.
Ardith’s EXPERTISE
Listed below are this Mentor’s specialty skills. Join this group if you want to grow in these areas.
Specialty: ✔ Generalist
Technical:
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Colour and Composition
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Technique Demos
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Supplies and Tools – what to use, where to save, and where to spend
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Studio Setup for Art Production
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Providing Art Critiques
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Teaching How to Self Critique
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Developing Your Visual Language
MARKETING & BRANDING:
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Artist Statement & CV
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Social Media
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Marketing & Branding
Business:
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Teaching Live
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Pricing Artwork
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Approaching Galleries
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Selling Online
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Studio Time Management
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Products, Prints, & Reproductions
Ardith is a wealth of knowledge.
Ardith blows my mind every time!! Thanks you Ardith for you guidance, your insight and your kindness.
Ardith is so amazing sharing her knowledge and helping all of us individually as well.
Ardith always makes me dig deep and think about my why of painting… I love it!
Ardith is pure gold.
Ardith is such a wealth of knowledge and I like that she makes you really think. Massive respect!
“Mastrius has done wonders for my confidence. I have managed to step way outside of my comfort zone which has in turn given rise to so many more opportunities to further my art career.”
Deb Nicolaisen, Emerging Artist
I enjoy how Ardith hits all areas of an artists process, both in the studio and art business
It really is a game changer! I absolutely love everything about Mastrius.
I thought about getting a mentor for about a year and a half before actually going through with it, and I’m so happy I joined.
Debbie Halliday, Emerging Artist
Ardith leaves me feeling inspired.
Ardith’s mastery is a gift. She knows how to motivate and interrogate the mind of an emerging artist, understanding the ebb and flow of this creative calling.
Ardith’s energy is absolutely contagious and her strengths in supporting the emerging artist is inspiring and articulate
Ardith is AMAZING!!! Such a great leader, teacher, encourager and fountain of knowledge.
Ardith is an amazing mentor!! She brings depth and insight to our discussions as well as a strong business focus. She’s clearly making an effort to get to know our group members and our art on an individual basis.
I can’t tell you enough how amazing Ardith is. She fills my soul and makes me want to paint!!
Ardith keeps bringing fresh ideas and relevant advice to our group. She is so tuned into the areas we want to grow in, offering expertise and perspective in so many areas.
Every session with Ardith is more amazing than the last.
Ardith as a mentor has tremendous breadth of technical and business expertise, as well as compassion and eloquence.
Ardith makes me dig deep and think about my process, I love it.
Ardith is amazing, positive, encouraging and very knowledgeable with technical strategies
Ardith is so good in pointing us to our WHY and how that shows up in our work. So important!
Ardith is very engaged with the group giving feedback, asking tough questions, guiding the conversation to benefit the group as a whole.
Ardith is such a wonderful mentor for me… I always hear something that I need to hear and come away feeling energized and excited to be in my studio again.
I love Ardith’s openness to really hear each of us, and to respond in personal and corporate ways with ideas and challenges.
Ardith is such an amazing woman, mentor and inspiration to all of us!
Ardith is wonderful in pushing to look deeply at what and why we do what we do! Love it.
Ardith is an incredible mentor and instigates many ideas that are deep in the hearts and minds of the artist.
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Emerging
Mentorship Membership
$ USD87/Monthly Membership
Next session: September 24, 2024
On the 4th Tuesday of every month 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM MDT Tue
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
My framework is all about painting beautifully imperfect abstractions and figurative works in mixed media and acrylic with an emphasis on dynamic movement, complex systems, and a side of unpredictability. My art mirrors my life, how I see the energy around all of us, how we connect and move within spaces with others, and how the inner spirit of diversity and variety matter deeply. I build wall experiences through my art for a viewer because I want them to not simply see a painting on a wall, I want to impact their human heart through how I use paint, pigment, and story.
With a Master’s in Education, I have taught thousands of adult painters over the past decade by helping them improve their skillsets and identify the framework that is unique to them. I have a unique ability to help painters articulate what their intentions and goals are and then form the action steps they need to grow their skills, business sense, and professional scope for their careers.
I simply LOVE teaching and working with other working artists, it is part of the deep joy I have about being a painter and teacher.
My works have been collected globally and I have been in multiple solo and collaborative shows as well as publications. What I am most proud of though, finding a way to come off complete disability and build an amazingly successful Corporation as a Solo Creative Entrepreneur. I am a wild creative at heart and a sharp businesswoman, I teach both as a mentor.
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