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Art Critiques: Level Up Your Composition & Color!
Wednesday, October 23rd
12–1pm MDT
2–3pm EDT
7pm–8pm BST
5am–6am AEDT (Thursday)
Mentors: Desmond O’Hagan & Marie Massey
$19.00
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Free For Mastrius Members.
Level Up Your Composition & Color with Art Critiques!
Submit your art or just come and learn.
Experience the power of constructive art critiques from Master Artists and watch your art improve faster than you ever imagined.
Learn how to take the right steps to refine your artwork and craft compelling narratives through expert feedback. Join us for an interactive session where you'll get valuable guidance and insights to strengthen your work.
Mastrius Master Artists Desmond O’Hagan & Marie Massey will share their wisdom on how to improve the use of color and create balance and interest with compelling compositions for powerful results in your artwork.
Here's what you’ll learn:
- When to FOLLOW or BREAK THE RULES of composition for impactful storytelling.
- The collaborative relationship between COLOR DYNAMICS and COMPOSITION.
- Strategies to draw viewers into your painting, by capturing their ATTENTION and IMAGINATION.
NOT READY to have your work critiqued? Just come and learn.
Want LIVE feedback from Master Mentors on YOUR art?
- Click here to submit your artwork.
- ANYONE registered for the workshop can submit art.
- Five pieces will be selected for live critique during this event.
- Artists MUST be in attendance to have their work critiqued.
Mastrius events are always LIVE & INTERACTIVE so you can get your questions answered and see real progress in your work!
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Meet Marie Massey
Acrylic | Oil
My Mentorship group will be geared toward representational painters working in oil and acrylic. I will introduce them to the Painting in Layers Method of painting. My mentorship group will focus on each artist becoming a more skilled painter in order to better express their unique vision and inspiration. I will give conceptional and technical critiques of paintings in progress or in need of improvement. This will include critiques and coaching on design and composition, use of color, edges, shapes, values, atmospheric and linear perspective, and using technique to convey movement and vitality.
I am especially skilled in painting water and can share the techniques that I have discovered and learned over the years in conveying the transparency, reflective quality and movement of water. I am also an accomplished plein air painter, participating in 6 to 7 plein air painting events annually.
I will share all the practical and artistic knowledge that I have to help artists be more successful in plein air painting. I will also do demos and paint-alongs of the Painting in Layer Method.
I will also provide art career coaching:
1. Defining goals and developing a strategy for achieving them
2. Developing a signature style that is unique and recognizable, a brand
3. Building, growing and nurturing a collector base
4. Building a distribution strategy for the artist’s work
5. How to promote and market your work online.
Meet Desmond O'Hagan
Oil Paint | Pastel Art | Charcoal Art
All art is a form of story-telling, and mine tells the story of interpreting light – a constant element in my paintings. Whether it is the subtle colors of dusk, or a simple stream of light in a dimly lit interior, all these effects motivate me to capture the image on canvas of paper.
Throughout the years, I’ve worked in watercolor, acrylics, charcoal, pen & ink, and monotypes, but my primary focus is oils and pastels.
With oils, I enjoy the expressive brush strokes and the way paint can be manipulated on canvas or paper. With pastels, I love the texture, the explosive color, and the bold strokes I can achieve.