VIRTUAL LIVE ART LABORATORY

VIRTUAL ART STUDIO & CREATIVE COMMUNITY

Monthly Artistic Laboratories Starting January 2024

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 ...

 

  • You are an experienced or aspiring artist/creator and you are looking for inspiration and support to nourish, refresh or anchor your art practice
  • You feel the need to honour your creative call
  • You would like to share your artistic journey with an open minded and supportive community of creative souls
  • You are already students in any of my courses ... or part of my professional training for expressive arts facilitators
  • You are an expressive arts facilitator, coach, therapist, group leader, and you are looking for creative/artistic inspiration and nourishment for yourself or your professional practice
  • You want to make artistic expression & conscious creativity active parts of your life and your decisions making
  •  You intuitively know that artistic expression can be a guiding force in your life
  • You are committed to experience and share the transformative power of the arts and how they can foster holistic consciousness

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

  • Bridging body heart mind & soul awareness
  • Presencing, experiencing deep seeing and listening
  • Letting go of assumptions, pre-conceived ideas, evaluation & judgements
  • Developing an attitude of inquiry and open curiosity
  • Sensitizing to art materials & artistic modalities
  • Using aesthetic analysis & creative journaling to guide your artistic process

Hoard your attractors and define your creative frame

  • Following your attractors and what is alive in you to guide your creative process
  • Working with space, time, frame and limitations
  • Clarifying your subject, theme and intention/direction
  • Sensitizing to visual language & symbolic language

Embrace your creative process

  • Experiencing the creative forces of flow & structure, chaos & order, intention & accident, details & overall composition
  • Navigating the unexpected and the not knowing
  • Fostering synchronicity 
  • Meeting the mystery of the relationship between yourself and your artwork 
  • Building up your own artistic vocabulary and skills
  • Becoming aware of the subtle balance between repetitions & variations, empty & full, busy & quiet, form & no form, finished & unfinished
  • Dialoguing with your art & your inner critic

Break through blockages and dead-end situations

  • Transforming your inner critic into an efficient observer/collaborator
  • Extending your range of play and allowing take 2
  • Engaging your imagination, discovering new links to foster emergence and innovation
  • Transforming accidents, mistakes, challenges, randomness into opportunities for new
  • Transferring to other art modalities/disciplines to uncover hidden layers within your work
  • De-centering and shifting perspective
  • De-constructing & re-constructing
  • Changing your gestalt or perception of your work
  • Using the mirror of the other

Communicate and present your artwork/project

  • Deepening your phenomenological observation - extended consciousness - of your creative process
  • Using different art modalities to extend your means of communication about the work
  • Becoming familiar with the practice of aesthetic analysis
  • Using creative writing as a starting point to develop content texts
  • Embracing full aesthetic responsibility for your work
  • Harvesting meaningful insights and transfer them to your life or or to professional projects.

Collaborate with others and grow

  • Being witnessed and seen by other fellow creators in a supportive environment
  • Fostering artistic conversations around your creation and others' creation to discover the full spectrum of your creative process
  • Using group dynamic, phenomenological mirroring, aesthetic response, creative exchange, and human connections

How does it work?

Our creative platform/community brings together participants wishing to engage and commit in their creative process.
We will start with a FREE OPEN LAB in January 2024 to celebrate our community of creators. We will then meet every 5 weeks on Zoom (with a stop in August) till December 2024 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:

  • Short meditation & visualisation, embodied explorations & warm up, play & sensitising
  • Music Playlist
  • Guided live creation experiments with a set of art materials
  • Creative sharing, witnessing and feedback

 4 OPEN LABS with Roseline & Team
Open Labs are 3h live online in which participants create artworks that are part of their personal artistic project or exploration.
Sessions include:

  • Short meditation, guided warm up/sensitising
  • Music Playlist
  • Creation time: participants design their own artistic experiment and work with the art materials /art modalities of their choice
  • Creative sharing, witnessing and feedback

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

  • Regular INSPIRATIONAL VIDEOS from Roseline to inspire and support your art practice. Private Course Webpage with SEED LABS recordings and videos.
  • PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP to share and present your artworks
  • Inspirational Spotify Music PlayLists created with love by Roseline for each Lab
  • ACCESS to the ART LAB team Mini Labs program designed to support your art practice including:
    4 "drop in" Digital Creation Mini Labs with artist facilitator Mischa Fulljames and other team members (cost 15 euros per mini Lab).

    4 "drop in" Creative Writing Mini Labs with facilitator Emmanuelle Pass and other team members (cost 15 euros per mini Lab).
  • Surprise Invited Artist Guests
  • Sharing of inspirational Video Tutorials, Art Documentaries and articles ...

Click here to see the list of basic art materials you will need
  • 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

  • Along the year you will create 1 (or more) creative journal /inspirational scrapbook. You could make the base yourself with some of the large white sheet or find a large drawing book with white pages that you would like to use as a base. Both options can also be mixed. There will be an inspirational video about that in February

  • 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

  • I also recommend for mixed media collage: satinated varnish glue (works well with all kind of paper) and/or acrylic medium for thicker materials. 

  • 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.

  • ATTRACTORS :
    One (or more) cork board + pins to create attractors board
    1 or more boxes (recycling) to keep your attractors such as: Images, wrapping paper, pieces of fabric, natural materials, recycling bits, objects, old toys etc… Any thing that draws your attention as something that could be used in your art.
    Anything else that you have from your own studio and art supply stash that inspires you

  • A small tripod for your phone/camera (optional) + Printer (optional) 

  • For the Digital Zoom Labs you will need a computer + your phone or tablette

  • A colour printer to print your own created images is cool …

How much does it cost?

YEARLY MEMBERSHIP COST INCLUDING ALL THE ABOVE 
160 euros 
REGISTRATION OPEN!
The group will be limited to 20 participants

When are the LIVE LABORATORIES?

VIRTUAL ART LAB 2024 CALENDAR
All Labs are on Thursdays starting @ 5pm CET on Zoom

FREE OPEN LAB - 11 JANUARY 
SEED LAB - 15 FEBRUARY
OPEN LAB - 21 MARCH
SEED LAB - 25 APRIL
OPEN LAB - 30 MAY 
SEED LAB - 4 JULY
OPEN LAB - 5  SEPTEMBER
SEED LAB - 3 OCTOBER
OPEN LAB - 7 NOVEMBER 
SEED LAB - 12 DECEMBER


Click here to read participants testimonials

"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 2023 & 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 

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