Kerry Vaughn Erickson
MASTER ARTIST
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MEDIUMS: Acrylic | Oil | Drawing
SPECIALTY: ✔ Technique
My membership group will focus on all aspects of the production of strong and compelling paintings:
- Starting from the search for inspiration
- Collecting and preparing dynamic reference material
- Choosing substrates and medium(s)
- Executing the works using various tools and mediums (including 30 years knowledge of tips and tricks)
- Final varnishing and framing
Following this, members will learn about creating a body of work, and the importance of a “series” to commercial galleries.
Kerry’s EXPERTISE
Listed below are this Mentor’s specialty skills. Join this group if you want to grow in these areas.
Specialty: ✔ Technique
Technical:
Color & Composition
Technique Demos
Studio Setup for Art Production
Providing Critiques
Teaching How to Self Critique
Supplies and tools – what to use, where to save, and where to spend
“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
Kerry has been an artist all his life. As a kid, he won several school competitions, and in grade 11 got his first job in applied arts as a draughtsman. Following this, he worked at print shops and then advertising agencies as a designer and illustrator. During this time, Kerry attended the fine arts program at Kwantlen College, while also working with his Mentor, artist Don Li-Leger.
In 2001, after a few months of being an art director for an internet startup, he decided to change direction and become a full time artist. At this time, Kerry also started working as a painting instructor in Quebec, and found he was equally as passionate about teaching as he was about creating his own work.
Kerry’s current work is influenced by travel – both locally and abroad. In 2022, he spent a month in Paris, which was the inspiration behind his solo exhibition “Visiteur” at This Space Gallery in Vancouver.
Kerry works with water based media. His latest works are a combination of acrylic and water mixable oil on canvas. Thematically, his paintings depict city related imagery – people and urban settings. His style could be considered “loose realism”, where strong underdrawing is combined with heavy texture and expressive brush work.
