April 18, 2024

I painted another owl!

By Tamara Laporte | in art journal | Tags: art musings , art journal , tamara laporte , Willowing Arts

I painted another owl!

Dear Creative Friend,

Well, I said I’d do a series of owls and lo! I painted another owl, however, he was not happy about it. Look at his grumpy face! 😆 ->

He was all like: “Excuse me, here I was all nicely non-existing and then you, annoying painter, decided to try and paint me! I was have a relaxi non-existent time and felt NOT in the mood for being RUDELY conjured into life, being painted in ridiculous confetti colours, what were you thinking …” Needless to say; I wrestled with this owl but in the end, we had a good old chat and became friends! 😆😅😬

I even made a video about it for my youtube channel! What?
2 Videos in 2 weeks? That’s kind of unheard of in Tamland!
I’m so proud of myself.

Come listen to me warble/ twitter about how art imitates life and how life imitates art and that sometimes characters you create are telling you hilarious or challenging things and sometimes your struggles on the canvas reflect back the struggles in your life. And sometimes you discover that the grumpy character you created is actually YOU in real life, just disguised, as a colourful, grumpy, confetti owl! As they say: humans are just God in Drag. In my case; this grumpy owl is just me in confetti feathers. 😉 It’s all very fun with a cuppa, too. ♥️♥️♥️

Watch Grumpy Confetti Owl Here

As part of my owl series being released on youtube; I’m still running the 30% off discount code for Watercolour Wildlife as you can learn the style of the owls on that course! Use: WILD30 at the checkout.

Join Watercolour Wildlife Here

Have a great rest of your week!
Much love,
Tam ❤️🌟💕

PS. I’ve been posting some more reels lately (am enjoying figuring out how to make interesting ones, check out this one on ‘how to create tints, shades and tones’ as well as a pretty reel showing off all my colourful affirmation cards. 😍😍😍

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Another little abstract in slightly more muted tones this time (although the red violet/ purple does really make the whole thing more vibrant.) 😍😍😍

Another little abstract in slightly more muted tones this time (although the red violet/ purple does really make the whole thing more vibrant.) 😍😍😍

Many of you asked for a little timelapse of one of my abstracts. Here you go! 😊 and yes it includes a satisfying border peel! 😍😍😍 #mixedmedia #abstractart #artjournal

Many of you asked for a little timelapse of one of my abstracts. Here you go! 😊 and yes it includes a satisfying border peel! 😍😍😍 #mixedmedia #abstractart #artjournal

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