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MEDIUM: Mixed Media SPECIALTY: ✔ Artistic Process & Mindset ✔ Technique & Demos ✔ Finding Your Artistic Style
My mentorship group focuses on abstract composition/techniques/ color. Open a dialog in direction, creating a body of work, production, working large scale, commissions, keeping self motivated, visual triggers, recognizing ones skills and comfort zone, pricing your work, artist talks and inspirations and resourcing.
Michael’s EXPERTISE
Listed below are this Mentor’s specialty skills. Join this group if you want to grow in these areas.
Specialty: ✔ Artistic Process & Mindset ✔ Technique & Demos ✔ Finding Your Artistic Style
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Colour and Composition
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Providing Art Critiques
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Technique Demos
Business:
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Running Your Art Business the Day-to-Day
“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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$ USD87/Month
Next session: June 05, 2024
On the 1st Wednesday of every month 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM MDT Wed
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Shem is an abstract artist living and working in Northern California. Largely self-taught, he did not emerge on the art scene in a conventional fashion. His career has crisscrossed the world of applied arts and visual expression. His work has evolved over the last two decades, shaped directly by a close engagement with material and process, and a focus on abstraction and design. His experiences as a teaching artist over the last eight years have inspired and deepened his appreciation for creative community and collaboration. Shem is represented by several galleries in the US and Canada.
ARTIST STATEMENT My work has evolved over the last two decades shaped directly by a close engagement with material and process. I became interested in the changes in art-making stemming from shifts in technology. My response was to re-evaluate traditional materials such as paper and paint, thus simplifying my approach to abstraction. I was inspired to further the pursuit of abstraction and design by streamlining the materials and employing processes as integral to his work. The result is my Surface Tension series, which is based on an organic process involving water, paper, pressure, friction and time. And the g + p series based on working exclusively with a Gypsum + Paint medium.
In addition to art-making I teach the principles of Abstraction by Design (AbD) to students and fellow artists via workshops and private mentoring. My experience as a teaching artist over the last seven years have inspired and deepened my appreciation for creative community and collaboration.
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” -Leonard Cohen In my creative journey I visit this quote often. As a self-taught artist these words have provided me with a launching pad and a landing site in pursuit of my work.
Awareness of the light has assisted me in recognizing my aesthetic and informed my teaching skills and sensitivity to the light has guided me in choosing the paths presented before me.
