karen Weihs
MASTER ARTIST
Mastrius Artist Mentor
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Mentoring Emerging and Aspiring Artists
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MEDIUM: Oil Paint | Palette Knife
SPECIALTY: ✔ Generalist
Using mostly palette knives and particular brushes, Weihs applies pigment in lush impasto layers interspersed with thin glazes that enrich colors and result in canvases that glow with mysterious light and form. The vague forms and evocative spaces in her paintings become magnets that draw audiences into the mystery of creation by way of human imagination.
Her works radiate an otherworldly ambience of shimmering colors and swirling shapes. Weihs galvanizes her audience’s natural curiosity with compositions that border between abstraction and landscape. She alludes to the familiar without telling the story. Her abstracted representational subject matter is deliberately simplified to capture the “idea” or essence of a place, not the reality of it. Her abstracts show her skill at mark making and texture.
Karen’s EXPERTISE
Listed below are this Mentor’s specialty skills. Join this group if you want to grow in these areas.
Specialty: ✔ Generalist
Technical:
Colour and Composition
Technique Demos
Caligraphy
Studio Setup for Art Production
Providing Art Critiques
Teaching How to Self Critique
MARKETING & BRANDING:
Writing Bios
Shows and Exhibits
Business:
Running your art business the day-to-day
Studio Time Management
Confidence Building
“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, Emerging Artist
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Emerging
Mentorship Membership- Next session: March 28, 2023
- On the 4th Tuesday of every month
- This global group meets at:
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM MDT Tue
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDT Tue
12:00 AM - 2:00 AM BST Wed
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM AEDT Wed
...and your timezone too!
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Aspiring
Mentorship Membership- Next session: March 27, 2023
- On the 4th Monday of every month
- This global group meets at:
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM MDT Mon
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDT Mon
12:00 AM - 2:00 AM BST Tue
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM AEDT Tue
...and your timezone too!
Contact us if you need help
MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Weihs is a master of following creative impulses that inspire courage, uplift the spirit and elevate art-making to a new level of intellectual stimulation making her an extraordinary teacher known for giving permission to students to explore their creativity, encouraging them to make marks with joyful abandon and experiment with tools and techniques that lead to her individual style. Weihs studied with LaMar Dodd at the University of Georgia, USA, earning a BFA degree. His repetitive, coloristic modern style was great influence.
Karen was born and raised in Charleston, SC, raised two sons and worked with and sold 7 restaurants there with her restauranteur husband, Chris Weihs, also a European trained professional chef.
They now live in Sarasota, FL where she maintains a private home studio. Member of AWA, OPA, Salmagundi Club, Weihs is skilled in painting en plein air realism to abstracts to special commissions. She has published two books.
