Michael Freeman

MASTER ARTIST

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MEDIUMS: Soft Pastel
SPECIALTY: ✔ Technique ✔ Marketing & Branding

*Mentoring alongside Julie Freeman

Michael is an international award winning hyperrealistic artist from New Zealand who has had a fascination with realism since childhood and his main medium is pastel. In his artwork he strives to create images that have greater depth and feeling than can be achieved with a photograph.

Starting initially with acrylics, before discovering the wonderful medium of pastel – which suits his hyperrealistic style and love of detail.

Michael’s subjects range from his current series of still life paintings featuring iconic New Zealand toys and objects, through – landscapes featuring old weathered sheds, barns, railway carriages, windows and doors, old locks, and farm animals (mainly cows) – all inspired from photographic trips along New Zealand’s roads.

Michael’s EXPERTISE

Listed below are this Mentor’s specialty skills. Join this group if you want to grow in these areas.

Specialty: ✔ Technique ✔ Marketing & Branding

Technical:

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Color & Composition

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Technique Demos

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Studio setup for art production

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Supplies and tools – what to use, where to save, and where to spend

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Teaching to Self Critique

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Providing Art Critiques

Marketing:

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Shows & Exhibits

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Social Media

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Artist Statement & CV

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Marketing & Branding

Business:

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Pricing Artwork

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Approaching Galleries

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Running your art business the day-to-day

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Studio time management

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Products, prints, & reproductions

“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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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST

Michael is in the Master Circle of the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS/MC), is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America (PSA), and a Master pastellist of Pastel Artists of New Zealand (MPANZ) and has a Master of Fine Arts degree (MFA) University of Illinois, USA, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (BFA) Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University, NZ.

Michael went to Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, to be a painter and left a product designer. However after a successful design career in 2010 he decided to return to his passion for painting.