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April 21, 2026

I Need Your Help + Almost 20,000 of You Said YES 🤩 Take a Peek at my abstracts + other news!

By Maddie Turner  |   in mixed media  | Tags: A Year of Light , year long mixed media art course , mixed media art course , scholarships  

I Need Your Help + Almost 20,000 of You Said YES 🤩 Take a Peek at my abstracts + other news!

Dear Creative Friend,

I hope you’re having a beautiful week so far. I have some exciting things to share with you and I need your help too please!

First up: I am currently prepping future projects and would love your input on something. I’ve created a little survey with only 4 shorts questions. Would you be willing to answer the questions for me? Thank you! I appreciate you! ✨🙏✨

Answer the 4 questions here

As a token of my appreciation, I’m gifting my colourful printable collage pages PDF to those who fill out the survey. (Info on how to download the PDF becomes available once the survey is filled in.) Thank you! ❤️🙏❤️


In other exciting art news!!

🎨 Almost 20,000 People Already Have Signed Up for Mastering Mixed Media Expo 2026! Holy Moly Guacamole Batman! 🤩

I am genuinely blown away. We haven’t even reached May yet and nearly TWENTY THOUSAND creatives have already signed up for our free Mastering Mixed Media Expo! 🤩 The energy and excitement building around this event is just… wow. Thank you SO much to everyone who’s already signed up your excitement is everything. 🥹

And if you haven’t joined yet? Maddie, it’s FREE. It’s two whole weeks of mixed media workshops from 35+ incredible artists. It starts 1st May. There is literally no reason not to. Come PLAY with us!

👉 Sign up for free here: Mastering Mixed Media 2026

🖌️ Abstracts: My Beautiful Nemesis

So here’s a confession. I find abstracts genuinely challenging. Every time I sit down to make one, there’s this little voice going: “But where’s the FACE, Tam? Where are the big eyes?!” 😂

And yet… I keep coming back to them. There’s something about the freedom of it, the not-knowing, the surrendering to colour and texture and movement, that pulls me in every single time. It’s like the creative equivalent of that friend who’s a terrible influence but SO much fun.

I do think I’m getting better at them, I love how the above piece came out! But it’s often still a bit ‘hit and miss’. I’ve been sharing some of my abstract process on Instagram Reels lately, including those oh-so-satisfying border peels (you know the ones where you pull off the tape and everything suddenly looks SO crisp and beautiful? 😍😍😍). If you haven’t seen them yet, they’re the kind of thing you watch on repeat with a cup of tea.

👉 Watch my abstract process reels here: Abstract Reels with Tam

I’d love to know; are you an abstract lover? Do you find them freeing or terrifying (or both, like me)?! 😃


🎁 50% Off My Collage Paper Packs!

And finally, a little something special! ArtStacks who license my artwork for their gorgeous collage papers, are currently running a 50% off sale on my ArtStack bundled paper packs!

If you love collaging with beautiful, painterly papers with my art on them, this is a brilliant time to stock up.

👉 Grab them at half price here: Tam Paper Packs

Alright my creative friends, that’s me for today! I hope something in this email made you smile or sparked a little creative itch.

Go make something! Even if it’s messy, even if it’s imperfect, even if you have NO idea where it’s going. That’s where the magic lives. ✨

Happy Arting! 🎨

Love,

Tam

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