VIRTUAL ART STUDIO & CREATIVE COMMUNITY
Monthly Artistic Laboratories Starting January 19th 2023
The Virtual Live Art laboratory is an online creative platform for a community of artists and creative souls that has been growing over a few years. Artists, designers, coaches, therapists, group leaders and creators from all fields come together because they believe the arts have a role to play in their personal and professional life.
We draw from the principles of Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts and Art Based Research to anchor, inspire, refresh and renew our art practice. Artistic expression and the creative process become an experiential laboratory to explore, observe, try out and discover, while engaging the imagination and cultivating awareness.
Our ART BASED monthly laboratories combine inspirational interdisciplinary artistic experiments, community art practice, mindfulness tools and group dynamic to support everyone’s creative process. We work with a range of artistic practices: drawing, painting and mixed media techniques as well as artistic rituals, installations, improvisations and performances. Weaving hands-on analogue and digital creation with creative writing and journaling, artistic conversations and inspirational talks, we nourish our creative process and keep our art practice alive.
This community is for you if ...
During this process you will get access to inspirational teaching videos to support and inspire your creative process. My expressive arts tool box will guide to ...
Cultivate the artist attitude and use your art practice as a research Lab
Hoard your attractors and define your creative frame
Embrace your creative process
Break through blockages and dead-end situations
Communicate and present your artwork/project
Collaborate with others and grow
How does it work?
Our creative platform/community brings together participants wishing to engage and commit in their creative process.
We will start 2023 with a FREE OPEN LAB on January 19th to celebrate our community of creators. We will then meet every 5 weeks on Zoom (with a stop in August) till December 2023 for a total of 10 Artistic Laboratories.
5 SEED LABS with Roseline & Team
SEED Labs are 3h live online guided artistic experiments during which we all create "seed artworks" that serve as starting points to inspire personal art projects in the following weeks.
Sessions include:
4 OPEN LABS with Roseline & Team
Open Labs are 3h live online in which participants create artworks of their choice.
Sessions include:
What is needed?
A basic range of art materials (List below), specific art materials lists will be communicated 4 weeks before the guided Labs.
+ BONUSES
Free access to our library of inspirational videos about the creative process + tutorials for analogues & digital art making
PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP to share and present our artworks
Small group zoom meeting for those who want to deepen artistic conversations
Spotify Music PlayLists by Roseline for each Lab
Surprise Invited Artists Guests
Art Documentaries and articles ...
20/25 sheets of white paper + 2 sheets of black paper 200g or/and 250g - size around 50 x 70cm or 19 x 27 inches. These sheets will serve as a base to draw, paint & collage. The size doesn’t need to be exact as each country has different standards. 250g is better for paint while 200g is better for collages, so if you can get both qualities.
A pack of sheets of WHITE A4 100 gr + some sheets of A4 colour paper of your choice. Choose at least 3 or 4 colours you like. Optional A4 white Rice paper.
At least 5 sheets of thin tissue paper some white + some colours of your choice
A range of coloured pastels either oil and/or watercolour (water soluble)
Your favourite pencils, crayons, markers or felt tip pens
Your creative journal, format of your choice
A range of basic acrylic paints in large tubes (at least black white red blue yellow + green orange + optional some extra colours that you love)
Tools: brushes (thin to large at least 3 sizes), sponge, spatulas, optional small roller
Scissors and cutter
500 ml white glue + 1 sticker glue
Some meters of string, a basic sawing kit with thick wool needle
1 Paper tape roll
Some plasticine (polymer clay) white or coloured - or natural clay - 500 gr or 1kg
A neutral white mask in cardboard
2 or 3 cardboard boxes (recycling) that you like, we will use them in different ways for creation.
One or more cork board + pins
1 or more extra boxes (recycling) to keep a collection of items such as: Images, wrapping paper, pieces of fabric, recycling bits, objects, old toys etc… Any thing that draw your attention as something that could be used in your art.
Anything else that you have from your own studio and art supply stash
A small tripod for your phone/camera (optional) + Printer (optional)
For the Digital Zoom Labs you will need a computer + your phone or tablette
Watch the video to inspire you with art materials / coming soon for participants!
How much does it cost?
YEARLY MEMBERSHIP COST INCLUDING ALL THE ABOVE
150 euros
REGISTRATION OPEN!
The group will be limited to 20 participants
When are the LIVE LABORATORIES?
VIRTUAL ART LAB 2023 CALENDAR
All Labs are on Thursdays starting @ 5pm CET on Zoom
FREE OPEN LAB - 19 JANUARY
SEED LAB - 23 FEBRUARY
OPEN LAB - 30 MARCH
SEED LAB - 4 MAY
OPEN LAB - 8 JUNE
SEED LAB - 13 JULY
OPEN LAB - 7 SEPTEMBER
SEED LAB - 5 OCTOBER
OPEN LAB - 9 NOVEMBER
SEED LAB - 14 DECEMBER
"The art assignments allowed for amazing transformation for me. Yes, they were intense, lots of work, but I wouldn't want it any other way. It was all this hard work that allowed for deep, thoughtful, meaningful work. I worked really intensely for 3 months, mostly on your class. What emerged for me felt like a year's worth of experience and unexpected, immense forward movement." Cristina from USA - Web designer & artist
"The Art Lab experience with Roseline was a wonderful 3 months process, a journey of exploration and discovery, creative and personal. Roseline's personality drive and commitment make the course flow and happen for everyone. She is also a compassionate woman, this comes through in her interactions, there is a caring supporting nature that holds the group and at the same time drives them forward." Satty from Netherlands - Yoga teacher & artist
"The lab experience was a great gift! It helped me to move through the darkness and refresh my creativity in an embodied way finding new tools and company to move along through the difficult months of the COVID pandemia.
It was wonderful to share with you and so many other artists from different parts of the world. It seemed magical, that in the midst of so much pain and restrictions going on worldwide, we could share such an enlivening, creative and inspiring experience to go on creating, learning and responding to our deep selves and to the world´s need….In EXA terms, we could say that your lab promoted POIESIS at its best. Thank you very much, Roseline!". Pilar from Peru - Expressive art teacher, art therapist & artist
"It was inspiring and enriching to have the opportunity to be part of your workshop. It gave me a frame to research and step into the world of visual arts with its many possibilities. I loved to experiment with colours and get to know different art materials, to learn how to work on a piece over a period of time and develop it, working with collage gathering images which spoke to me and see what would enfold out of it. The teaching about art and the documentaries were very inspiring and gave me new insights." Sandra from Spain - Dancer and dance retreat facilitator
"This Art Lab came at just the right moment for me, during the Covid quarantine and in a moment of processing the passing of my father. It felt like a moment to reconnect to my inner creativity and find release and flow of emotions. I thoroughly enjoyed Roseline’s methods of deconstruction and harvesting our work. I made discoveries and surprised myself in the process of letting go of expectations. I loved how we started each session with meditation and connection to our body, mind and soul. The incorporation of movement also helped to loosen up and work with freedom. This lab has pushed all the buttons and set me off on my art journey again. I feel a lot of inspiration. Thank you Roseline!" Mischa from Spain - Visual artist & musician
"The diversity of the participants and the new connections I have developed through the course have been extremely enriching. Roseline, your ability to be present and to witness everyone in a meaningful way is inspiring.
While taking the class I was kayaking down a river and reached a small area of faster moving water, which was also shallow. I was worried I might hit bottom and get stuck there. I could feel my body tense up and brace itself. I then remembered that the water will flow where there is least resistance so I took a deep breath, let go, lifted my paddle out of the water, and just allowed the faster flowing water to guide me and my kayak down the river. That is what your class has helped me learn, not to resist the bumpy parts, let go, and trust that I will make it to the other side. As a consequence I have started a new series of paintings that I am feel are some of the best I have made. Thank you." Sylvia from USA - Psychiatrist & artist
"In Roseline's workshops I was able to let go of my pre-conceived ideas and limitations to create meaningful and valuable art works I would have never imagine I was capable of" Oscar from Spain - Language teacher
Watch videos presenting participants' final artworks from the LAB 2021 & 2022
Professionals interested in completing the Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts Accredited Training Certificate with the European Graduate School please contact me.
Needing hands-on art making
Needing 1-1 online creative coaching