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Live Panel: Art Studio Tours! Sneak Peek Into Master Artists’ Studios
Thursday, January 30th
12–1pm MST
2–1pm EST
7-8pm GMT
6–7am AEDT (Friday)
Mentors: Robert Goldman & Calvin Lai
$19.00
Art Studio Tours!
Create the Art Studio You’ve Always Wanted!
Ever feel like your studio is more CHAOS than CREATIVITY? You’re not alone! As artists, we all have too many things on our minds - and too many art supplies in our studios. We can help!
Join Mastrius Master Artist Mentors Robert Goldman and Calvin Lay in this fun, practical and LIVE TOUR where they'll help you to set up your DREAM STUDIO. Peek inside their personal workspaces and get the inside scoop on what really makes a studio functional, efficient, and totally inspiring.
You’ll learn how to:
- Set up your studio to support the way you create
- Make the most out of whatever space you have available
- Organize the your tools and materials to enhance your practice
- Create a space that is functional and improves your efficiency
Have questions? Bring them! This is all about making your space work for you. Don’t miss it!
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Meet Robert Goldman
Oil Master
Robert Goldman is a painter known for his use of color and light in his landscapes of the Southwest, especially Northern Arizona and Utah. He resides in Prescott, AZ with his wife Barbara.
After graduating from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, Robert continued his study with Ray Vinella, John Asaro, Wolf Kahn, Wayne Thiebaud, Matt Smith, Phil Starke, Ray Roberts, Bill Anton, and Ned Jacob.
Some awards include Best of Show at the 2019 Grand Canyon celebration of Art (Juror Jean Stern), First Place, Oil Painters of America online show.
The Phippen Museum included four of his pieces in the “High Desert Masters” show in 2022. Robert also participated in a group show featuring the signature members of Plein Air Painters of America at the Booth Museum in Georgia.
Robert is represented by the Legacy Gallery in Scottsdale AZ, and theThunderbird Foundation / Maynard Dixon Legacy Museum in Mt Carmel, UT where has had four consecutive solo shows, participated in many of the Maynard Dixon Country shows and has been represented there since 2015.
Robert is a signature member of Plein Air Painters of America.
Numerous magazine articles have featured his work, including the cover article in the Artist’s Magazine (1989 September); the American Artist Magazine (October 1994), Southwest Art (December 2001, and January – February 2002), and Western Art and Architecture, June/July issue 2019.
Meet Calvin Lai
Oil Paint | Charcoal | Drawing
I collect moments. If you look through my collection you’ll see paintings of people I’ve met, places I’ve been, and things I’ve seen. Because of my background in classical realism, it is important for me to paint these moments realistically. But solely painting realism feels incomplete, and I find that it can become a bit too academic. It’s not only about the visual recreation that is my intention in oil painting. I want to make my audience feel they are walking down a rainy street, climbing up a sun drenched hill, or sitting in front of a beautiful figure.
I want a viewer to feel the moments I collect.
In my work, I find myself breaking free from traditional ways of painting and incorporating much more expressive means. I place highly developed detail next to looser, almost abstract, areas. I’m fascinated with how to combine near photographic rendering alongside the roughness of the palette knife, or the randomness of a loaded brush. This combination of realism and Impressionism techniques creates a natural tension in my paintings, as well as directs where I want the eye to travel. Even my choice of composition and subject matter are influenced by this part of me. I find that I create compositions outside of conventional rules and gravitate towards subjects that do not necessarily follow a standard of beauty. There is a bit of provocation in this, as I play off of the traditional ways art should be, but there is also an invitation to see what else beauty entails.