Cheryl St. John

MASTER ARTIST

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MEDIUM: Oil
SPECIALTY: ✔ Technique

Basic skills in composition, design, easy perspective, color mixing and technique will be a large focus.

I share my favorite tools, canvas, how I make my own boards for painting, how to keep things light for plein air painting and specific tools for plein air.

I have lots of experience in Art Festivals and how to find the right gallery representation.

Artwork by Michaela Hoppe
Artwork by Michaela Hoppe
Artwork by Michaela Hoppe
Artwork by Michaela Hoppe
Artwork by Michaela Hoppe
Artwork by Michaela Hoppe

Cheryl’s EXPERTISE

Listed below are this Mentor’s specialty skills. Join this group if you want to grow in these areas.

Specialty: ✔ Technique

Technical:

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Color & Composition

Z

Providing Critiques

Z

Teaching How to Self Critique

Marketing:

Z

Shows & Exhibits

Business:

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Approaching Galleries

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Pricing Artwork

“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):
  1. 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!
  2. 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.
  3. Weekly Events: Attend LIVE weekly events online, on hot topics like Finding Your Style, Composition & Critiques, plus master DEMOS. Access event recordings!
  4. MyStudio: Access your private online studio space equipped with business tools and Mentorship Session Recordings.
  5. Chat Group: Access your private online chat group to connect with your small group and Navigator (group facilitator) anytime.
  6. Discounts: Enjoy member discounts on LIVE and ON-DEMAND courses, art supplies, and more!

MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST

Artwork by Michaela Hoppe

Cheryl is an artist that paints primarily in the plein-air-tradition. She is a fourth generation Colorado native, with a great appreciation of nature and the environment and the preservation of both. Born and raised at the foot of the Rocky Mountains and with parents that enjoyed the outdoors, Cheryl was introduced at an early age to the beauty of the Colorado mountains and developed her own love for the landscape that influences her artwork today.

Cheryl paints mainly with oil but loves to work with watercolor as well. Each medium has its own characteristics which when using clean vivid colors and as few brush strokes as possible makes for a loose impressionistic finished work of art. She states, “Keeping the painting fresh, not over-worked is part of the fun and challenge of a good artist. “I want the viewer to be able to feel what I felt when painting the piece….. feel the warm sun, or the cool breeze, or whatever else is going on nearby and therefore capture the essence of the scene for themselves.”

Cheryl’s paintings have been presented in prestigious national shows such as The American Impressionist Society, Oil Painters of America, Gilcrease Museum, Customs House Museum,Windows to the Divine and the Governor’s Invitational to name a few. Cheryl studied fine art and design at The Rocky Mountain College of Art and at the Colorado Institute of Art. She also studied with well known artists, Scott Christensen, Kim English, Quang Ho, Ken Bachaus and Michael Workman.

She is a current Signature Member of Oil Painters of America and The Art Students League of Denver. She is also a Signature member and Vice President of the American Impressionist Society and a Signature member of Plein Air Artists of Colorado. She has won numerous awards and is currently in Corporate as well as Private collections around the world.

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