Mastrius

What if your landscape paintings could move beyond “what a place looks like” and begin to express what it feels like?

In Abstracting the Landscape, Artist and Mentor Regina B Quinn () will guide you in moving away from literal landscape painting and toward creating a more expressive, abstracted sense of place.

You’ll explore how to identify the essential qualities of a landscape, the light, atmosphere, rhythm, color, memory, and emotion, and use them to create work that feels more personal, evocative, and alive.

You’ll learn to:

✨ Shift from depicting a place to expressing its essence
✨ Build stronger compositions that support your visual intention
✨ Use color and value to suggest time of day, atmosphere, and mood
✨ Pare down the landscape to what feels most compelling
✨ Create a more emotional and sensory sense of place

Whether you’re inspired by mist on the shoreline, sunset silhouettes, morning light, forest shadows, or the memory of a place you love, this residency will help you move past literal representation and into more expressive landscape painting.

Join Regina this summer and learn how abstraction can help you capture not just the landscape, but the feeling of being there.

🔥 Sign up through the link in bio at .official

Do you overthink your paintings before your brush even hits the canvas?

In Fast & Fun Painting Exercises for Overthinkers, Professional Artist and Mastrius Founder Julie deBoer (.deboer.art) will help you loosen up, quiet your inner critic, and build trust in your artistic instincts.

Through quick painting exercises, creative constraints, limited reference material, and expressive mark-making, you’ll learn how to move past perfectionism and respond more naturally to color, value, composition, and emotion.

You’ll learn to:
✨ Release perfectionism and paint with greater flow
✨ Build confidence through repetition
✨ Trust your artistic intuition
✨ Convey emotion through loose brushwork and marks
✨ Prioritize color and value before detail

Every artist overthinks sometimes. This residency will help you get out of your head and back into the joy of painting.

Join Julie this summer and discover how fast, playful exercises can unlock more authentic, expressive work.

👉 Sign up through the link in bio at .official

🎨 Ready to master watercolor with more confidence, control, and personal expression?

Join Gonzalo Ibáñez () for an Aspiring Artists mentorship focused on developing stronger, more impactful watercolor work through technical mastery, bold experimentation, and personalized guidance.

Gonzalo’s goal is to help you command the medium with greater clarity and confidence, offering the feedback, structure, and support you need to refine your process while developing your own distinctive artistic voice.

In this mentorship, you’ll explore:

• Fluid water control and precise pigment behavior
• Color theory, tonal values, and composition
• How to create images with stronger visual impact
• A bold, spontaneous approach to watercolor
• How to strengthen your graphic line and refine your personal style
• Personalized feedback and ongoing critique to support your growth

With Gonzalo’s guidance, you’ll build a deeper understanding of watercolor while learning how to approach the medium with more freedom, intention, and confidence.

✨ Join Gonzalo’s group by going to the link in bio .official

What if one reference image could become several stronger, more dynamic paintings? 🎨

In Creating Compelling Compositions, professional artist and Mastrius Mentor Jordan K. Walker () will help you move beyond simply copying what you see, and start designing paintings that truly engage the viewer.

In this live online workshop, you’ll explore how to:
• Build stronger compositions for any subject matter
• Use proven design structures that work
• Balance detail with simplicity
• Create stronger focal points with color and value contrast
• Develop multiple unique compositions from a single reference image

Whether you paint landscapes, still life, figures, or something in between, this workshop will give you practical tools to create paintings with more clarity, impact, and intention.

👉 Join Jordan K. Walker for Creating Compelling Compositions at Mastrius. Link in bio .official