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Live Panel: No Brushes Allowed! Unconventional Tools for Painting
Thursday, August 1st
5–6pm MDT
7–8pm EDT
12am–1am BST (Friday)
9am–10am AEST (Friday)
Mentors: Kathleen Conover & Chantel Barber
$7.00
Free For Mastrius Members.
Explore Unconventional Tools for Painting: No Brushes Allowed!
Are you an artist looking to break free from traditional methods and explore new ways to create your masterpieces?
Join Mastrius Mentors Chantel Barber and Kathleen Conover for an enlightening discussion where they’ll share their discoveries and experiences with unconventional painting tools.
This event addresses the challenges and rewards of stepping outside the norm to expand your artistic expression.
You will learn:
- The BENEFITS of using unconventional tools in your artwork.
- Different FOUND objects or HANDMADE tools that you can use.
- Creative approaches to FINDING and EXPERIMENTING with new tools.
- How to OVERCOME common obstacles when trying out new methods.
Bring your questions and join us for an intriguing session to help you step outside of your comfort zone!
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Event Details
Date: August 01, 2024
Start time: 05:00 p.m. MDT
End time: 06:00 p.m. MDT
Venue: Online
Email: [email protected]
Meet Kathleen Conover
Watermedia Master
Helping artists reach the next level in their personal creative work is foremost in my critiquing and teaching. This includes looking at a collection of an artist’s work, helping them see what they do that is special and unique, and give suggestions on how to increase those strengths as well as continuing to develop new skills. Encouragement is paramount. Presenting appropriate questions help artists identify their interests, goals, frustrations, etc. and helps me to best guide them in the direction they need to best place their energy. Awknowledging art is subjective, I keep an open mind to the artists’ personal aesthetics and can help them in several directions: conceptually, skill building, materials experience, and suggestions for growth in realism, abstraction, or non-representational painting.
I believe good paintings result from a marriage of the intuitive (right side of the brain) and intellectual (left side of the brain). Artists are encouraged to embrace free, loose and expressive painting in their work. But, there is a time for critical thinking, and analyzing what’s happening in their painting(s). Is it what the artist wants to happen? How do they get from here to there? When we engage both sides of our brain, we are creating from “our head, our hands, and our heart” and are truly creating our best art.
Learning to self-critic is important since most of our time is spent painting alone. I have my “cheat-sheet to self-critique”, developed over many years of teaching, which works well with mentoring. It prompts the artists to ask their own questions and I can teach them how to find the answers.
Meet Chantel Barber
Acrylic Master
Chantel Lynn Barber yearns to promote the human spirit in her work. She believes that when it comes to the human race, there is more that unites than divides. There is beauty in everyone, regardless of whether they measure up to society’s definition of beauty. Not only their joys, but their sorrows too. She wants to show the beauty in the human condition.
Chantel is on a journey to capture the vision in her mind’s eye – the one blood we as humans share. And she does it all in acrylic – with strong color, energetic brushwork, light and story.
Her loose style draws the viewer’s attention, visually beckoning them to wonder at the essence of life.
