Mentorship is the fastest way to go from where you are today, to where you want to be! Learn How Mentorship Works or join this mentors group below. Not sure what stage you are? Click here for descriptions.
Mentoring Emerging Artists Not sure if you’re an emerging artist? Find your stage here.
MEDIUMS: Acrylic | Digital | Drawing | Gouache | Graphite | Ink | Mixed Media | Oil | Watercolor SPECIALTY:✔Technique
During the mentoring process, I focus on the work itself: how to present an idea, or how to translate a three-dimensional world into two-dimensional form. As a result of observing, analyzing, and exercising, I hope you learn to interpret what you see and feel critically. Visual artists cannot reproduce, so we don’t. Having a plan, a concept, and priorities is essential. In addition, we don’t wait for inspiration; the best ideas come from the process. In order to become a better artist, you must create.
Vladan’s EXPERTISE
Listed below are this Mentor’s specialty skills. Join this group if you want to grow in these areas.
Specialty:✔ Technique
Technique:
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Color & Composition
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Technique Demos
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Supplies and tools – what to use, where to save, and where to spend
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Providing Art Critiques
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Teaching how to self critique
Business:
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Approaching Galleries
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Running Your Art Business
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Studio Time Management
“Mastrius is a perfect balance of accountability, community and fun. It feels like family. Family that makes you a better you.” ~ Elizabeth, Emerging Artist
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Your Membership Includes (click here):
Mentorship Session: Meet via video conference for a monthly 2-hour session with your Mentor and small group. You choose the mentor, we provide the group!
Mid-Month Session: Meet via video conference for a 1-hour session with your small group and Navigator to connect, share progress, encouragement, and support.
Weekly Events: Attend LIVE weekly events online, on hot topics like Finding Your Style, Composition & Critiques, plus master DEMOS. Access event recordings!
MyStudio: Access your private online studio space equipped with business tools and Mentorship Session Recordings.
Chat Group: Access your private online chat group to connect with your small group and Navigator (group facilitator) anytime.
Discounts: Enjoy member discounts on LIVE and ON-DEMAND courses, art supplies, and more!
Emerging
Mentorship Membership
$ USD67/Month
Next session: May 14, 2025
On the 2nd Wednesday of every month 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM MDT Wed
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Vladan was born in 1955 in Serbia. He has a natural eye for art; one of his earliest memories as a child was his preference for a pencil and paper over the usual toys. Artistic talent runs in his family yet no one became professional; Vladan opted for a career in electrical engineering as a ‘practical’ vocation. During the summer months, between his studies, Vladan studied painting and printmaking amidst other art professionals. Eventually, in his late twenties, he became a full time fine artist in Belgrade. After arriving in Toronto in 1993, he began painting murals for commercial and residential spaces and participated in numerous local art exhibitions. Since 1995, Vladan has worked in the animation industry creating digital image backgrounds. For seven years, between 2009 and 2016, he was an art instructor at the College of Animation, Art and Design in Toronto.
“My practice revolves around the interplay of shape and colour and the interaction between abstract and representative, between intuition and observation. I am trying to suggest, rather than describe. Honestly, I think I paint one painting all the time, in variations. Mind you, there is no such thing as a single “meaning”, we all see differently.
As an artist, I came to terms with the fact that “reality escapes us every moment of our life”. Since it is impossible to capture these fleeting moments, let’s go search for the essence. The essence of painting is a transposition, not an imitation. At the final phase a painting should reach the fullness of its being, to become autonomous and independent of me. At that point, not before, it suddenly comes available for the emotional communication with a viewer. It’s not mine anymore, it has never been my destination.
The inspiration comes from my everyday experiences, a memory, an impression, a poem, a sudden insight, art in general. I love tackling the whole variety of approaches: sketching first, or turning into the white canvas, or to a textured, under-painted one.
My earliest memories are about drawing, hours and hours of drawing. Such an early infection was probably a response to a certain need. I think everyone is special in some way.
I admire the work of Michelangelo, Modigliani, Degas, Matisse, Schiele, Sargent, Moore, Rodin, Giacometti, amongst many.
Medias I explore are pencils, India ink, gouache, acrylics, oils, and digital media.”
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