Mastrius

What if your landscape paintings could move beyond “what a place looks like” and begin to express what it feels like?

In Abstracting the Landscape, Artist and Mentor Regina B Quinn () will guide you in moving away from literal landscape painting and toward creating a more expressive, abstracted sense of place.

You’ll explore how to identify the essential qualities of a landscape, the light, atmosphere, rhythm, color, memory, and emotion, and use them to create work that feels more personal, evocative, and alive.

You’ll learn to:

✨ Shift from depicting a place to expressing its essence
✨ Build stronger compositions that support your visual intention
✨ Use color and value to suggest time of day, atmosphere, and mood
✨ Pare down the landscape to what feels most compelling
✨ Create a more emotional and sensory sense of place

Whether you’re inspired by mist on the shoreline, sunset silhouettes, morning light, forest shadows, or the memory of a place you love, this residency will help you move past literal representation and into more expressive landscape painting.

Join Regina this summer and learn how abstraction can help you capture not just the landscape, but the feeling of being there.

🔥 Sign up through the link in bio at .official

What if breaking away from your usual tools helped you paint with more freedom, intuition, and drama?

In this mentorship group with Mark Stopforth (), emerging artists will explore a more expressive, instinctive approach to painting, using paper towels, rags, and creative mark-making instead of relying on brushes alone.

Inspired by the drama, atmosphere, and emotion of Turner, Constable, and the Romantics, this group will help you loosen up, trust your instincts, and create work with stronger light, texture, mood, and movement.

You’ll focus on:
🎨 Using alla prima techniques in a free and intuitive way
🎨 Creating expressive skyscapes and seascapes full of drama
🎨 Building a painting from start to finish with confidence
🎨 Layering texture, light, and atmosphere to create mood
🎨 Breaking old habits and trying something new
🎨 Finishing and presenting your work to an exhibition standard

This group is for emerging artists who want to move beyond careful technique, take creative risks, and let intuition become a guiding force in their painting process.

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Step into figurative sculpture with curiosity, confidence, and trust in your own vision.

Join Alexandra Slava () for an Emerging Sculptors mentorship group designed to help artists build technical skill, creative confidence, and a more personal sculptural language.

Through Alexandra’s supportive approach, you’ll explore traditional sculpture methods while learning how to adapt them to your own ideas and artistic voice. This mentorship is about progress over perfection, creating work that feels expressive, meaningful, and true to you.

In this mentorship, you’ll explore:
• Armatures and clay modelling
• Human anatomy, proportion, and gesture
• Sculpting from references and imagination
• Composition and creative decision-making
• Mold-making, casting, and finishing techniques

✨ Join Alexandra’s group by going to the link in bio .official

Do you struggle to capture the glow, mood, and mystery of the city after dark?

In Urban Landscape After Dark, Professional Artist and Mentor Gonzalo Ibanez () will guide you through the essentials of painting nocturnal urban scenes in watercolor.

Through reference preparation, tonal value studies, color exploration, and hands-on painting exercises, you’ll learn how to transform photographs into expressive cityscapes filled with atmosphere, artificial light, and visual impact.

You’ll learn to:
✨ Analyze a reference photo for composition, value, and color balance
✨ Paint streetlights, glowing windows, and artificial light sources
✨ Understand how night scenes shift your color palette
✨ Create atmosphere using watercolor’s natural flow and fluidity
✨ Build loose, expressive urban landscapes with mood and contrast

Painting the city after dark requires a different way of seeing. This residency will help you understand light, simplify complexity, and bring nocturnal scenes to life with confidence.

Join Gonzalo this summer and discover how watercolor can capture everything from the golden hour of sunset to the deep contrasts of night.

👉 Sign up through the link in bio at .official

Do you overthink your paintings before your brush even hits the canvas?

In Fast & Fun Painting Exercises for Overthinkers, Professional Artist and Mastrius Founder Julie deBoer (.deboer.art) will help you loosen up, quiet your inner critic, and build trust in your artistic instincts.

Through quick painting exercises, creative constraints, limited reference material, and expressive mark-making, you’ll learn how to move past perfectionism and respond more naturally to color, value, composition, and emotion.

You’ll learn to:
✨ Release perfectionism and paint with greater flow
✨ Build confidence through repetition
✨ Trust your artistic intuition
✨ Convey emotion through loose brushwork and marks
✨ Prioritize color and value before detail

Every artist overthinks sometimes. This residency will help you get out of your head and back into the joy of painting.

Join Julie this summer and discover how fast, playful exercises can unlock more authentic, expressive work.

👉 Sign up through the link in bio at .official

🌿 Step into the landscape with courage, curiosity, and colour.

Join Caroline Reid () for an Aspiring Artists mentorship group designed to support and empower women artists as they build confidence, skill, and a more expressive soft pastel practice.

Through Caroline’s bold and exploratory approach, you’ll be encouraged to work freely, experiment fearlessly, and connect more deeply with the places you paint. This mentorship is about more than technique, it’s about creating work that feels authentic, alive, and rooted in your own experience of the natural world.

In this mentorship, you’ll explore:
• Soft pastel materials, surfaces, techniques, and pigment behaviour
• The science of light, colour, and atmosphere
• How geology, soil, rock, and water systems shape the landscape
• Experimental approaches to daily art practice
• Working outdoors and building a stronger connection to place
• How to be brave, bold, and feisty in your landscape paintings

With Caroline’s guidance, you’ll learn to approach landscape painting with more confidence, curiosity, and creative freedom, while creating work that is technically informed, personally meaningful, and deeply connected to the land.

✨ Join Caroline’s group by going to the link in bio .official

🎨 Ready to master watercolor with more confidence, control, and personal expression?

Join Gonzalo Ibáñez () for an Aspiring Artists mentorship focused on developing stronger, more impactful watercolor work through technical mastery, bold experimentation, and personalized guidance.

Gonzalo’s goal is to help you command the medium with greater clarity and confidence, offering the feedback, structure, and support you need to refine your process while developing your own distinctive artistic voice.

In this mentorship, you’ll explore:

• Fluid water control and precise pigment behavior
• Color theory, tonal values, and composition
• How to create images with stronger visual impact
• A bold, spontaneous approach to watercolor
• How to strengthen your graphic line and refine your personal style
• Personalized feedback and ongoing critique to support your growth

With Gonzalo’s guidance, you’ll build a deeper understanding of watercolor while learning how to approach the medium with more freedom, intention, and confidence.

✨ Join Gonzalo’s group by going to the link in bio .official

🎨 Ready to feel more confident, and more relaxed, at the easel?

Join Karen Daigle (.daigleart) for an Aspiring Artists mentorship focused on the fundamentals of Alla Prima oil painting.

Karen’s goal is to meet you where you are in your painting journey, offering the knowledge, support, demos, and visual examples you need to strengthen your work while making painting feel more enjoyable.

In this mentorship, you’ll explore:

• How to choose supplies, paints, mediums, brushes, and palette setups
• The full process of working through an Alla Prima painting from start to finish
• Composition, values, edges, and color harmony
• Color mixing, brushwork, and paint handling
• How to develop your artistic voice and stay true to your painting style

With Karen’s step-by-step guidance and encouraging approach, you’ll build a stronger foundation and a more confident painting practice.

✨ Join Karen's group by going to the link in bio .official

What if one reference image could become several stronger, more dynamic paintings? 🎨

In Creating Compelling Compositions, professional artist and Mastrius Mentor Jordan K. Walker () will help you move beyond simply copying what you see, and start designing paintings that truly engage the viewer.

In this live online workshop, you’ll explore how to:
• Build stronger compositions for any subject matter
• Use proven design structures that work
• Balance detail with simplicity
• Create stronger focal points with color and value contrast
• Develop multiple unique compositions from a single reference image

Whether you paint landscapes, still life, figures, or something in between, this workshop will give you practical tools to create paintings with more clarity, impact, and intention.

👉 Join Jordan K. Walker for Creating Compelling Compositions at Mastrius. Link in bio .official