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MEDIUMS: Oil | Watercolor | Pastel | Colored Pencil SPECIALTY: ✔ Finding Your Artistic Voice ✔ Artistic Process & Mindset ✔ Creating Bodies of Work
My rural upbringing greatly influenced my lens on the world. I use my artwork as an outlet for contemplative exploration of deeper concepts, reflecting on how I (and we, as humans) relate to an ever-changing landscape and environment. My subject matter is both a cathartic and documentative means to record a way of life that is slowly disappearing. It serves as a history of the people, homesteads, animals and the agriculture of this land. I want to illuminate subjects that sometimes can easily be overlooked. To transform the mundane into something beguiling. Most importantly, I want to share my passion with others so that these stories can be heard, seen and live on.
Crystal’s EXPERTISE
Listed below are this Mentor’s specialty skills. Join this group if you want to grow in these areas.
Specialty: ✔ Finding Your Artistic Voice ✔ Artistic Process & Mindset ✔ Creating Bodies of Work
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Providing Art Critiques
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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
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Watercolour – realism, texture, animals
Marketing:
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Website Design
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Artist Statements & CV
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Shows & Exhibits
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Marketing & Branding
Business:
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Pricing Artwork
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Studio Time Management
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Running Your Art Business the Day to Day
Crystal is always organized, sensitive to the needs of the group. She is informed and informative.
Crystal is SO knowledgeable on every subjects related to art in general, she is always so informative.
Crystal is really organized, gives lots of good info. She stays focused and leads the group well. She leaves room for questions and discussion. Great classes especially for those who want to become more professional.
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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!
Aspiring
Mentorship Membership
$ USD90/Month
Focus: regular Critiques, improving your craft, and assignments to help build a cohesive body of work
Next session: February 05, 2025
On the 1st Wednesday of every month 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM MST Wed
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Crystal Beshara is an International award winning, contemporary realist painter. Born to two artistic parents and inspired by her rural upbringing in Eastern Ontario, Canada, she has been drawing and painting since childhood (with a particular affinity for animals, farms & florals).
Largely a self-taught artist, she holds a BFA in Studio and a Botanical Illustration diploma from the Society of Botanical Artists (UK). Her work has been featured in Pleinair Magazine, American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur and International Artist Magazine, CBC radio, CTV television and more.
Crystal's role as an Arts Educator has taken her all over the world teaching workshops in Santa Fe, Greece, Wyoming, Newfoundland, France, England and Mexico and more. After spending 20 + years in Canada’s Capital as a professional artist, illustrator and art instructor (and full time momma), she moved back to the country near the area where she grew up. She works in both oil and watercolour painting away in her sun filled studio nestled between Ottawa and Montreal Quebec where she lives with her husband and their two senior dogs.
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