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 Aspiring Artists Not sure if you’re an aspiring artist? Find your stage here.
MEDIUMS: Oil SPECIALTY: ✔ Technique
Our focus will be on honing the essential, hands-on skills of painting—everything from choosing what to paint, getting the image onto the canvas, preparing the palette, and executing the piece, all the way through to self-critiquing your work. I’m genuinely excited to see your skills grow, whatever your preferred medium or style. As a representational painter, I can guide you in creating realistic form and color if that’s something you want to explore. Or, if your style leans toward simplifying, abstracting, exaggerating, or amplifying, I’m here for that too!
One of my strengths is color mixing, a skill I fine-tuned years ago working in a paint store, back when we matched colors by eye rather than machine. I’ll share everything I know to make color mixing easier for you.
I’ve also spent many years working with aspiring artists, often around my dining room table, helping them break through self-critique or past judgments that told them they “couldn’t draw.” Art is all about self-expression, and if you have a self to express, you can make art. Plus, I’ve got tips, tricks, and shortcuts to make the process smoother. I’m here to help—let’s get started!
Janet’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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Colour and Composition
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Technique Demos
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Teaching How to Self Critique
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Studio Setup for Art Production
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Supplies and Tools – what to use, where to save, and where to spend
Business:
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Pricing Artwork
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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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If the group you’re interested in has a waitlist, you have the option to join another group to get started. When your group opens we can transfer you over.
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
$ USD64/Month
Next session: January 15, 2025
On the 3rd Wednesday of every month 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM MST Wed
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Growing up in the suburbs of Ontario Janet never dreamed that being an artist was in her future. Or that flowers would become so important. Marigolds were her town’s flower of choice, and they never appealed.
Though she studied art in university it was always with the aim of teaching, not self expression. When her first child was born she began to realize how integral creating was to her mental health and overall wellness.
How she wished that someone would walk into her studio (which has usually meant her laundry room) and say to her “you are an artist.” But that didn’t happen. Like many others, Janet has slowly walked forward, diligently creating, trying to let go of the need for validation and grab the calling to simply create beauty for the world to enjoy. To paint because this is what she’s been made to do, and this is what brings joy to her life. Over time she came to realize this is what it means to be an artist: simply, to create.
Currently Janet’s works explore colour and depth of field, moving from crisp lines to blurred edges, from realism to abstraction. She believes beauty can transform a house into a home, a boardroom into a table of open discussion, a facility into a place where community flourishes.
Janet has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Greater Vancouver, Saskatoon, and Victoria. Her works are held in local, national and international private collections. She is represented by the Gallery at Matticks Farm.
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