Todd Bonita
MASTER ARTIST
Unlock Your Artistic Potential
Mentorship is the fastest way to go from where you are today, to where you want to be!
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Mentoring Emerging Artists
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MEDIUMS: Drawing | Oil
SPECIALTY: ✔ Generalist
My mentorship group has three goals; (1) Identify your Individual artistic goal(s) and chart a clear vision for an achievable course of action. (2) Isolate the most problematic area(s) of your painting habits and provide you with the tools and skill set to remedy. (3) Develop your understanding of the language of art to ultimately enable you to critique your own work in the absence of instruction and thereby, be in complete control of your personal artistic growth.
A Student / Mentorship relationships begins with a conversation where I collect valuable information about where your artistic path has been, where it is currently and where you aspire to be. I will help you understand that for more than 600 years, the Masters who came before us have already established clearly defined paths to navigate the long term strategy of progressing from emerging, to mid-career, to ultimate artistic mastery. I will pass this knowledge on to you in this unique mentorship portal. Whether you are on painting 0-50, 51 -100 or more than 100, I will help clarify your vision moving forward and firmly plant your feet on the path of a mile of canvas with focused goals and exercises specific to your current place and aspirations.
I will introduce you to what the masters referred to as, “The language of art and the seven elements of picture making”. We will look at your work using this criteria and identify the weakest areas of your craft, isolating what works and why, what does not work and why, and how to fix what is not working. We will place your weakest area at the metaphoric bottom rung of a
ladder and using tools and skill, chip away at it, until it is no longer your weakest area. The second rung of the ladder now becomes your weakest area. We will repeat this measure, always progressing, continuously climbing the ladder towards mastery.
Todd’s EXPERTISE
Listed below are this Mentor’s specialty skills. Join this group if you want to grow in these areas.
Specialty: ✔ Generalist
Technique:
Color & Composition
Technique Demos
Supplies and Tools – what to use, where to save, and where to spend
Providing Art Critiques
Teaching How to Self Critique
Studio Setup for Art Production
Marketing:
Shows and Exhibits
Marketing & Branding
Business:
Approaching Galleries
Pricing Artwork
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
MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
I fell in love with the ocean while growing up in Winthrop, Massachusetts, a small New England harbor town outside of Boston. After graduating from the Art Institute of Boston, I continued study of classical painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. After a twelve year career as an Illustrator, I focused full time on fine art oil painting in 2006, creating works for art galleries and collectors. I currently maintain an studio space at The Button Factory artist studios in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I love painting coastal New England imagery outdoors in plein air, equally as much as crafting more involved compositions in my studio. Above all, I love the process and simple joy of being with my tools and painting.
My work is currently represented by ten art galleries around New England, Florida and the UK. and is in hundreds of corporate and private collections world wide, including 41st U.S. President, George H. W. Bush. I have had the good fortune to have exhibited in four Art museums and I am blessed to call this craft that I love my full-time occupation. I currently own and operate the Todd Bonita Art Gallery in both Ogunquit, Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I am also owner of the Ogunquit Art Colony School, where I teach painting classes and art workshops year round. I live on the New Hampshire seacoast with my son Max and daughter Kate.
Life is good.
