Seminars and Mentorship

I have been working on my Seminars in the background for many years.  Gathering notes, testing my theories and discussing them with my peers. It has been a huge part of my own learning process and has been enriching my artistic development with a scientific aspect, which i find endlessly rewarding. 
I have had some very encouraging feedback from other artists. Some of which are big influences and inspirations to me and whose attendance and feedback honored me profoundly. 

I also offer limited, one on one Mentoring. This may include portfolio critique, tailored workflow advice or more in depth tutoring.
I currently teach my Seminars and personal Mentorship classes online via Zoom.
If you want to invite me to speak at your gathering, convention or like more information about my educational work, please contact me through my instagram profile @luxaltera

Keep reading for descriptions of the Seminars I am currently teaching.

Priorities

Design Theory for Visual Artists

This Seminar is a guide to a uniquely structured workflow and the successful capture of your audiences attenion. It is designed for all visual Artists and is not tattoo or genre specific.. 

As an Artists with a neuro-divergent learning disability like ADHD, i had to find structure in my workflow to help me not to get lost in unnecessary tasks. After my struggles with burn out and depression, with the help of these structures, I was able to find my own voice in the industry and remain driven and looking forward to more artistic exploration without boredom or exhaustion to this day.

I have started tattooing in 2003 and this was my first Seminar, written in 2013 and expanded and edited since. It has remained relevant to me and those who have taken it in all these years. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.

In this seminar I will explain by which rules our visual brain tells us where to look and what to remember before our personal taste kicks in; how visual memories are triggered and why this is important to artists.

I explain my system off finding reference and inspiration to help create art that feels unique and personal.

Connecting these skills, i will help you understand better how our audience decides which art is relevant to them or why some of us get noticed more than others.

Priorities is not a seminar about biomech or abstract art or requires a deep understanding in these subjects. 
But it will help tremendously if you are interested in abstract art like biomech. It is a great foundation for my second seminar “What is it?”

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What Is It?

A Seminar on Biomechanic Design for Artists of all Levels
by A. Dominic and M. Lenhard 

The question is as old as the subject matter of abstract art itself. Answering it poses a perpetually complicated problem even to the most experienced in this field. Complicated things are hard to sell and thus not very popular in our community. Armed with a metaphoric explanation and a simple structural understanding of this art form one can approach it with the confidence necessary to master it. 

In the last 10+ years Markus and Adrian have spent many hours discussing the problem of explaining what we do to the laymen. By doing this for so long they created a visual and language based narrative to describe something most find hard to put into words.
Making the subject matter less elusive and abstract, this seminar will help you to further your own understanding of the topic and make it easier to find your own language within the world of abstract aesthetics. I will do my bvest to help you to find it easier to stimulate interest for this style in ypur own clientele and surprise ypurself with a previously untapped source of creativity.

The seminar will be utilizing a descriptive library of images of photography, sketches, drawings and tattoos which Adrian and Markus have been collecting and sharing for years in order to communicate new and old ideas and to stimulate growth and inspiration for each other.

This Seminar is taught by Adrian and Markus together or solo. It is geared towards Tattoo Artists but will be helpful to anybody who wants to get started with abstract art but has no idea where to start.
Taking the Seminar “Priorities” will ideally compliment “What is it”. The order in which these seminars are taken is however not important. They build on each other.

A nice read on the subject of Biomech can be found on the WHAT IS IT? section of this Website

DI·A·LOGUE

In September of 2016 Markus Lenhard and Jeff both presented their seminars on tattooing with a accumulative of almost 30 years of tattoo experience and a decade of teaching all captured on camera. This one day event was held in Grants Pass, Oregon after two days of collaborating on a full back tattoo on an artist from Wales, UK. Which was also captured and edited into a 9 minute professional mini documentary all by Heartisan Films. All three videos adding up to over four hours of content is offered on a leather bound, embossed chrome flash drive to be viewed and re-viewed at your convenience. Downloadable onto your computer or viewable on your television. To attend Markus’ or Jeff’s seminars in person often cost $175-$250 each depending on the venue and the recorded one day event was $350 per attendee. Applying the knowledge, experience, and perspective shared in this production is sure to change your tattoo career and pay for itself perpetually and in multiple ways.  SOLD OUT