Are you ready for a new approach to creating, thinking, and moving?
Are you ready to become "unstuck"?
During four live 90-minute sessions, learn how to get out of your head and into the creative zone, make BOLD and decisive marks, add rich, varied and expressive movements and develop personal marks and a confident and personal style.
This course includes five sections with 10 original video demonstrations, four live, online instructional meetings with Q&A and additional material and three-month access to the recordings of the live sessions and course videos. Additional handouts, exercises and enrichment materials that extend beyond these sessions are also included.
Concepts covered in this course:
- Apply Eastern philosophy to contemporary expression.
- Develop a new vocabulary of line, texture, pattern, and value. Get "out of your head" and into your work through inspiring exercises and by moving in a centered and fluid way.
- Generate scores of ideas and a visual vocabulary for your other bodies of work.
- Utilize numerous ink-on-paper pieces that can stand alone, or with other media such as encaustic, acrylic, and more! be mounted to a board or panel; or used in collage.
Be better prepared to work abstractly in any media.
Work large and make bold marks that are spontaneous and confident!
A bold mark can be a statement that pulls a piece together.
TOOLS
The unusual tools you make and alter
introduce you to new ways of working.
They create lines and patterns
that are unique.
They are an extension of your wrist, arm and whole body.
LISTEN
...to your inner voice.
Do what feels right.
Explore in the moment.
Through experience and practice you will learn to trust your own judgement and your own innate sensibility.
EDIT
Create a collection of works.
Build a lexicon of marks that
you can draw from.
Improve composition, balance, line,
value and your vision with abstraction.
Chi, the life energy, makes the mark, not the brush.
Mark-making is a sensory and physical experience. Gestural energy is made visible through intuition, instinct and imagination.
This course is for you if you are an adventurous beginner, a skilled artist or designer, or an art or mindfulness enthusiast of any stripe.
FAQ:
Q: Do I need to be in my studio for the live sessions? Will we be working then?
A: You will not be working during the live Zoom meeting. The Live session is a time to review works from previous assignments; watch my videos of demos for the next assignment; and for a Q&A.
Q: When will I have access to the class material? When does access end.
A: Upon registration you will have access to the supply list and you should begin making orders, if needed. On June 23, two weeks prior, you will receive a pre-class video assignments which include gathering materials on meditative walks, making simple tools/brushes, and exploratory marks with ink. We will show some of your results at the first live Zoom class on July, 7. Access to all class materials ends three months after the course start date.
Q: Does this course require special equipment?
A: No equipment is required at all. Papers, brushes, inexpensive and found materials to fashion tools, and India ink, are the primary materials needed.
Q: Will we use encaustic? Do I need experience with encaustic?
A: No encaustic is used in this course. However everything we create and experience in this short course is applicable and usable in wax/encaustic works on paper or panel. My follow-up courses, Dipped and Saturated, the Carbon Lab, and Zen and Encaustic Monotype Mark-making, will utilize encaustic and the material and conceptual results from this class.
Q: What is the format of the class? Is it live or recorded?
A. Both are part of the course. Paula's demos are recorded and there are live sessions for Q & A, sharing of works, or additional demos as needed. Upon purchase, you will have access to the Welcome Videos, supplies, entertaining video assignments (due at our first meeting), and a detailed agenda of the course.
Zoom links and instructions will be sent before our first class meeting. These live sessions will also be recorded and made available so that you may review them and not have to worry about taking notes.
Q: I have more questions. How do I reach you?
A: You can email Paula at [email protected]
STUDENT WORK
testimonials
Paula's workshops always provide the inspiration and space which allows for doors to open I
didn't even realize were closed…thank you!
~Alissa W.~
Creative sharing of techniques and thoughtful approach to art-making, chance to try tools and processes I haven’t done before, fantastic feedback about what I was doing and what I might try.
... you know I came in frustrated and blocked and left with ideas, processes and feeling like I had my groove back.
~Leslie~
We spent one afternoon finding our chi' through spontaneous brush work . This exercise caused a creative paradigm shift that has always stayed with me.
~ Amelia C.~
What I love about Paula Roland's workshops, in addition to her vast technical expertise and
experience as an educator, is her unique ability to cultivate an open creative space that is
supportive of both independent exploration and collaboration. I find that she attracts high caliber
artists and it is great to share time with them in Paula's comfortable studio.
~Deb ~
A belated thank-you for a wonderful workshop. You provided a great environment for
exploration and creation. I loved developing new practices of mark making and trusting myself
to try new techniques. Great inspiration! I hope we can stay in touch- maybe I'll be back for
Round Two with another workshop in a year or so.
~ Julie G.~
"The workshops were more than I could have imagined. Great teaching. You got me over some problems that you had no idea were there—me either for that matter—It was a great experience. I would do it again and probably will! Thank you."
~ Clara W. ~
