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Live Panel: Start with WHY: How to Find and Develop Your ARTISTIC VOICE
Thursday, June 6th
5–6pm MDT
7–8pm EDT
12am–1am BST (Friday)
9am–10am AEST (Friday)
Mentors: Lynette Melnyk & Dorrie Rifkin
$7.00
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Join Mastrius Mentors Lynette Melnyk and Dorrie Rifkin to discover what drives you.
Learn practical steps to express yourself authentically and honestly through your art. This panel will help you tap into your one-of-a-kind perspective. Take advantage of this opportunity to explore the 'why' behind your art.
Join us as we dive deep into the fundamental question, “Why do I create?”
You will learn:
- The importance of understanding your WHY for creating and how it will help you inform and strengthen your artistic voice.
- How personal motivations and inspirations speak into what you create and how you create it.
- Techniques and tips for uncovering and defining your artistic voice.
- How experimenting and taking creative risks will help you develop your voice.
Discover how your personal NARRATIVE and EXPERIENCES can shape your artistic voice and help you refine your artistic practice.
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Meet Lynette Melnyk
Acrylic | Mixed Media
Do you resonate with these thoughts?
Deep down, you know you are capable of more, but what is holding you back?
What steps can you take to breakthrough your roadblocks and move forward?
If so, as a Creative Mentor, I help with aspects of your artistic life including your thoughts and emotions. I help you dive deeper and ask yourself questions to determine what you can do to manifest your creative potential, to get unstuck, to rebound from self-doubt and external criticism, and understand yourself to live a balanced and inspired life.
A safe space is held for you to express your concerns and dreams, such as:
- How to uncover your purpose and clarity.
- Assessment and determine strengths, interests, desires.
- Investigate blockages, fears, self-doubt, anxiety, imposter syndrome.
- How to overcome obstacles and challenges, overwhelm and burn-out.
- Adding play and laughter to your days.
- Build confidence.
- How to gain better problem-solving skills and make better decisions.
- How to think more creatively for idea-generating in your work.
- Marketing, branding, goal setting, strategy.
- Develop an action plan and follow-through.
- Commissions and partnerships.
- Motivation and support.
- Accountability
Meet Dorrie Rifkin
Drawing | Watercolor
I changed careers from an advertising art director to watercolor artist in 2010. It took hard work, luck and talent.
It took hard work, luck and talent. This would never have happen if I didn’t take a workshop in 2010I and a master watercolor artist saw something in me, that I didn’t see in myself. He gave me the confidence in my ability, direction and tools to help me. I have been lucky that I have had many mentors that generously have helped me. Now it’s my turn to pay it forward.
An Englewood, NJ, resident, Dorrie paints from her passions. Thirty years’ experience as an award-winning art director ignited and cemented a life-long love affair with typography. Her other passions — music, New York City, and family – are palpable in her work. Every painting has a personal story. Her paintings have been accepted in over 100 international and national juried shows, and are exhibited in private collections, worldwide. She also have won awards in many of the these shows.
She is part of the Paintings on Loan Program and has paintings in Kathmandu and Muscat Omen Dorrie was featured in the article “Ones to Watch,” Watercolor Artist (December 2010), and her work was selected for Splash 14, 15, 17,18, 19 and 20. Her painting, “Leaving the Highline” was selected for the cover of Watercolor Artist magazine (February 2015). She is a signature member of the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, and the Northeast, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Garden State Watercolor Society, New Jersey, In 2023 she became a Master Signature member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society. Dorrie teaches local classes in New Jersey, workshop through the US and online classes.