My expertise lies in critique, technique, narrative development, and creating cohesive bodies of work.
A huge part of Crystal’s journey has revolved around residential architecture and the idea of what home means to different people and cultures. Canada is a melting pot of culture with a huge variety of definitions of home.
Home can be:
Where your belongings are
Where you feel safe
Where you sleep
Where people you love most are
Where you share similar values with people around you
Where you work
Where you play
Where you value time spent
Where your best memories lay
A place you fight for
A climate you’re surrounded by
People, places, and politics you’re familiar with
My narrative work gives a partial and biased view of how Canadian culture lives or desires to live. I can never represent all people in Canada but share observations of the lifestyle of the people I am surrounded by, the places I’ve lived, and the culture I grew up in. These narratives are driven by the landscape and plein air paintings I also produce. At times, these studies are a way of expressing the unique and beautiful environment Canada has to offer and also drives my exploration of basic painting elements like color, line, value, and composition. Paintings like these enhance my growth as a narrative artist.
Crystal’s EXPERTISE
Listed below are this Mentor’s specialty skills. Join this group if you want to grow in these areas.
Specialty: ✔ Technique
Technical:
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Color & Composition
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Technique Demos
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Providing Art Critiques
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Teaching How to Self Critique
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Developing A Body of Work
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Storytelling
Business:
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Studio Time Management
“Mastrius is a perfect balance of accountability, community and fun. It feels like family. Family that makes you a better you.” ~ Elizabeth, Emerging Artist
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Mentorship Membership
$ USD64/Month
Next session: October 01, 2024
On the 1st Tuesday of every month 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM MDT Tue
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Crystal Rassi is an award winning, internationally collected artist who’s been painting throughout her lifetime. Her journey began in a small prairie town in Saskatchewan, Canada where she was always either drawing, designing residential architecture, or building forts out of sticks and snow.
After three years of university studies in fine arts in Alberta and Saskatchewan, she decided to switch her degree to design with a concentration in architecture at the University of Manitoba where she received her bachelors degree. During her time as a designer and detailer, she raised her family with her husband in Saskatchewan for 13 years while also painting, showing and selling her work and teaching art in her community. Prairie culture and landscape were a major theme in her art during this time.
A life would have it, the pandemic greatly affected their life and a door opened in the West and they moved to North Vancouver where she now practices art full time and teaches art part time at her local recreation and culture centre.
