Mastrius

What if your paintings could feel deeper, richer, and full of light?

Layering is one of the most powerful ways to create luminosity, atmosphere, and movement in your work – but it can be hard to know where to begin.

In this LIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP with Yvonne Reddick (), you’ll learn how to build a painting in layers, starting with a strong tonal foundation and gradually adding transparent glazes, opaque colour, texture, and expressive mark making.

Over 3 sessions, you’ll paint along as Yvonne guides you through creating a semi-abstract atmospheric seascape – while teaching techniques you can apply to your own style and subject matter.

You’ll learn how to:

• Use an imprimatura and grisaille to establish composition and value
• Build depth with transparent glazes and opaque colour
• Use both palette knife and brushwork with more confidence
• Add texture to create movement and atmosphere
• Bring more luminosity and visual interest into your paintings

If you’ve ever wanted your paintings to feel less flat and more alive with depth, glow, and atmosphere… this workshop is for you.

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What if watercolor wasn’t about controlling every outcome… but learning how to follow the paint?

In this mentorship group for aspiring artists, Sarah Yeoman () helps you build both skill and trust in your own creative voice.

This is about learning the foundations of watercolor while making space for discovery, experimentation, and the creative process itself.

Inside this group, you’ll explore:

• How to find and develop your own creative voice
• How to let go of expected outcomes and follow the paint
• How to make space for experimentation and growth
• Composition, color, and expressive mark making
• Beginner and intermediate watercolor techniques

Sarah offers honest, supportive feedback that meets you where you are, helping you refine your technique, move through creative blocks, and build more confidence in your work.

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What if your art felt more focused… more exciting… like every design choice helped tell your story?

In this mentorship group with Alicia Farris (), emerging artists will build more confidence, clarity, and creative focus in their artistic practice while learning how to use strong design to bring their work to life.

You’ll explore how composition, value, color, shape, and other design concepts can help you create work with more drama, stronger impact, and a clearer artistic voice – while still painting the subjects that inspire you, in the medium you choose.

Inside the group, you’ll explore:
• Using design to bring more drama and excitement to your work
• Strengthening composition, value, color, and shape
• Choosing tools and materials that support your practice
• Building your artistic voice, style, and brand
• Sharing successes, challenges, and learning moments
• Entering shows and competitions with more confidence
• Preparing and shipping artwork safely

This group is for emerging artists ready to grow their confidence, sharpen their design skills, and create work that feels more personal, powerful, and true to their artistic story.

👉 Join Alicia Farris’ mentorship group today: link in bio .official

What if your art felt braver… freer… like you could finally trust your choices and push your work further? ✨

In this mentorship group with Stephanie Schirm (), emerging artists will build the creative courage, clarity, and confidence needed to move beyond hesitation and create work with more freedom, intention, and impact.

Rooted in Stephanie’s background in design, color, and expressive figurative work, this group will help you experiment beyond your comfort zone while still keeping structure, purpose, and direction in your process.

Inside the group, you’ll explore:
• Growing your comfort zone through creative experimentation
• Using and layering color with more intention
• Loosening up without losing your plan
• Building stronger design and visual structure
• Learning how to critique your own work more effectively

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What do you actually get inside a Mastrius mentorship group?

You get more than a monthly art class. You get a mentor, a group, and a rhythm of support that helps you keep growing.

Inside your mentorship, you’ll:

✨ Choose a mentor who fits your goals
✨ Join a small group of artists at your stage
✨ Meet monthly for live teaching, feedback, and support
✨ Get homework, accountability, and encouragement
✨ Stay connected through your group chat
✨ Access recordings, live events, and member perks

Because growing as an artist is easier when you’re not doing it alone.

Find your mentor and join a small-group mentorship at Mastrius today.

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What if this summer helped you create stronger work, explore new materials, and finally build a body of art that feels connected and intentional?

Our Mastrius Summer Residencies are designed to help you grow with structure, support, accountability, and real creative momentum.

Choose the residency that fits what you need most right now. Here are a few of the many options:

How to Create a Series with Sheldon Greenberg ()
Learn how to take a single image or idea and transform it into an engaging body of work through variations in color, composition, scale, technique, and media.

Build a Body of Work Around a Single Theme with Shannon Amidon ()
Discover how to identify meaningful themes, sustain creative momentum, and create a cohesive collection of work that reflects your unique interests and artistic voice.

A Little Knife Music: Oil and Cold Wax Exploration with Casey Cheuvront ()
Experiment with cold wax, palette knife techniques, layering, texture, and abstraction while exploring a fresh and exciting approach to oil painting.

Paint Along with Lin with Lin Luciano Fiore ()
Paint alongside a master artist as you learn traditional oil painting techniques, composition, color mixing, value structure, and the timeless methods of the Old Masters.

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT – Save 10%!
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Sale ends June 3rd.

July – August 2026

Give yourself the time, support, and creative focus to go deeper with your art this summer.

What if your paintings felt clearer… more convincing… like every color, shape, and choice had a purpose? ✨

In this mentorship group with Nicole Santiago (), aspiring artists will build the visual foundation and studio confidence needed to create work that feels intentional, expressive, and fully resolved.

You’ll learn how to move beyond muddy color, uncertain compositions, and overworked paintings, and start making stronger decisions with color, light, form, and narrative.

Inside the group, you’ll explore:
• Seeing and mixing color quickly and accurately
• Creating convincing volume, form, and spatial depth
• Using light and color to reveal structure
• Building stronger pictorial narratives
• Designing compelling, well-structured compositions
• Painting effectively from observation and photo references
• Developing healthy, sustainable studio practices

This group is for aspiring artists ready to stop second-guessing their process, and start building paintings with stronger structure, deeper purpose, and a clearer artistic voice.

👉 Join Nicole Santiago’s mentorship group today: link in bio .official

What if having a clear painting process helped you feel less stuck, more focused, and more confident in your work?

In this mentorship group with Gavin Glakas (), you’ll build a stronger foundation in the fundamentals while learning how to think through your paintings with clarity and purpose.

This group is designed to be the kind of space Gavin always wished he had as a student: friendly, straightforward, no-nonsense, and full of room to ask questions, kick around ideas, and experiment.

You’ll focus on:
🎨 Building a reliable painting process so you have a plan for any problem
🎨 Strengthening your compositions to make your paintings more dynamic
🎨 Using color intentionally instead of just “chasing” it
🎨 Creating stronger depth and space in your work

This group is for emerging artists who want to understand the fundamentals more deeply, develop better studio habits, and approach painting with more confidence, direction, and creativity.

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What if this summer changed the way you approach your art career, your creative process, and your confidence as an artist?

Our Mastrius Summer Residencies are designed to help you grow with structure, support, accountability, and real creative momentum.

Choose the residency that fits what you need most right now. Here are a few of the many options:

Stop Waiting to Be Discovered with Kristen Palana (.palana_arts)
Learn how to build a sustainable online art business, grow your audience, create multiple income streams, use AI tools practically, and stop feeling invisible online.

Digging Deeper: From Passion To Creative Expression with Dusti Gomery ()
Explore how to take one creative idea further through experimentation, variation, process, and deeper conceptual development.

Still Life Speed Painting from Life with Alex Kelly ()
Strengthen your observational skills, simplify visual information, and learn to paint faster, more confidently, and without overworking.

Composition Intensive: From Foundations to Advanced with Nicole Santiago ()
Develop stronger, more intentional compositions that create clarity, movement, atmosphere, and lasting visual impact.

This summer:
✨ Build momentum
✨ Strengthen your skills
✨ Explore new ideas
✨ Develop confidence
✨ Connect with other artists

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT – Save 10% for 1 week only!
Use coupon code: residencyearlybird
Ends June 3rd.

Your next breakthrough might come from finally giving yourself the time, structure, and support to go deeper.

Make this the summer you move forward. ☀️

Our 3rd annual Mastrius Summer Art Residency is here – a casual, fun, focused way to keep growing through July and August.

Choose the residency that fits what you need most right now. Here are a few of the many options:

Urban Landscape After Dark with Gonzalo Ibanez ()
Learn to paint glowing city lights, rich night scenes, and atmospheric watercolor landscapes.

Fast & Fun Painting Exercises for Overthinkers with Julie deBoer (.deboer.art)
Loosen up, quiet the inner critic, and build confidence through playful, intuitive painting exercises.

Abstracting the Landscape with Regina B Quinn ()
Move beyond literal landscape painting and learn how to capture the feeling, mood, and essence of a place.

Abstracting the Flowers You Love with Caroline Reid ()
Experiment with expressive floral abstraction, playful mark-making, and vibrant creative studies.

This summer, TRY something new, DEVELOP a skill, HONE a technique, or OVERCOME a challenge.

Save 10% with our Early Bird Discount for 1 week only.
Use coupon code: residencyearlybird
Early Bird SALE ends June 3rd.

Choose your Summer Residency .official and give yourself the structure, support, and creative momentum to keep growing.