Mastering Mixed Media
Creative Session: Soul Play with Tamara Laporte
Soul Play
In Soul Play, we’ll create a beautiful mixed media portrait filled with expressive colour, soulful features and playful doodled details.
This lesson explores the theme of PLAY through intuitive mark-making, childlike doodles, splatters, symbols and decorative elements. Alongside the portrait, you’ll be invited to add stars, hearts, houses, flowers, patterns, butterflies, swirls, dots or any other small details that feel meaningful to you.
The playful doodles are not just decoration; they are a way of loosening up, stepping away from rigid rules and allowing more intuitive parts of yourself to come forward. Through these marks, we’ll explore how play can become a gentle doorway into self-expression, imagination and the quieter language of the soul.
Using mixed media supplies, we’ll build a portrait that feels both tender and magical, then bring it to life with personal symbols, whimsical details and expressive layers. This class is perfect for anyone who wants to combine soulful portraiture with freedom, playfulness and intuitive creative expression.
Creative Session with Tamara Laporte
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Tamara Laporte’s free gift:
Self Love Affirmation Cards
Have you always been intrigued by mixed media art making but found it a bit intimidating looking? Well, look no further: I’m Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts and I want to show you how fun mixed media is and how you can create some really beautiful affirmation cards with relatively easy mixed media steps. I believe that everyone deserves to make art and I believe that everyone CAN make art. Yes, even you. 😊
To join this class for free, click here, and follow the steps on the page. 😊 Enjoy!
Artist’s Product Spotlights
Expressive Soul Portraits
Join me for 5 amazing weeks of expressive art making! On this course, we’ll be exploring expressive acrylics combined with mixed media while creating beautiful emotive portraits that capture parts of our soul! You’ll learn how to work spontaneously, intuitively and loosely with acrylics and learn about expressive embodied mark making which will add drama and dynamism to your paintings.
This is a transformative art course designed to guide you on a journey of self-discovery and emotional expression through the medium of acrylics and mixed media. Whether you are interested in portraiture or emotional expression, this course offers a unique blend of artistic technique and emotional exploration that will open your heart and mind to the depths of your creativity and soul.
As a member of Mastering Mixed Media you get 30% off this course use: YAY30MMM at the check out to redeem this offer! ?
A Year of Magic and Fairy Tales
Join Tam and 30 artists for A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales! This course is a year-long, immersive mixed media art course which explores the many facets of magic, story, and wonder, both in art and in life. This enchanting adventure is hosted by renowned artist and author, Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts. She is joined by 30 incredible guest artists to provide you with a truly magical creative experience! On this course, we dive deeply into the realms of fairy tales, story, and everyday enchantment, discovering how magic and imagination can transform our art, emotions, and self-expression. Join us for a journey through art, myth, and magic!
Watercolour Wildlife
Unleash your wild creative self! On this course, we’ll be exploring the beauty of watercolours & mixed media while creating stunning paintings of animals. You’ll learn how to work playfully and loosely with watercolour paints and combine them with other mediums like acrylic inks, etching tools, crayons, and markers. Together, we will create at least eight beautiful animal paintings. These include the Owl Odyssey, the Handsome Hare, the Rambunctious Red Panda, the Rosy Robin, the Glorious Gorilla, the Spirited Snow Leopard, The Sacred Sea Turtle and The Super Cute Corgi. Hope to see you there! ??????
As a member of Mastering Mixed Media you get 30% off this course use: YAY30MMM at the check out to redeem this offer! ?
About Tamara Laporte
Tamara Laporte (aka willowing) is a beloved mixed media artist, art teacher, and author known for her whimsical and soulful art. Her work blends vibrant folk-inspired imagery with themes of healing, hope, and self-discovery. Symbolism, storytelling, and layered mixed media techniques are at the heart of her unique style.
Since 2008, Tam has been running Willowing Arts, a creative sanctuary where she’s helped thousands of people around the world reconnect with their inner artist. Her classes focus not only on art techniques, but also on personal growth and emotional expression through creativity.
Tam’s work has been featured in various books, art magazines, podcasts, and summits. She’s passionate about creating inclusive, supportive spaces where everyone – regardless of experience or ability – can make meaningful art.
She lives in the South of England with her wonderful husband Andy, their two magical sons Dylan and Elliot, four hilarious dogs, and a gaggle of chickens.
Find out more about this teacher by visiting their site:
http://www.willowing.org/
Unlock Lifetime Creative Inspiration!
Join Mastering Mixed Media, where 37 incredible artists share their expertise in 40 inspiring art sessions – all designed to help you explore, experiment, and elevate your creative practice.
While the event is free to watch for a limited time, you can keep every session forever with the VIP Package! Valued at $760, this exclusive offer grants you lifetime, downloadable access to all lessons- so you can learn at your own pace, revisit your favourite techniques, and never miss a moment of inspiration.
Don’t miss out – secure your VIP access today and take your mixed media journey to the next level!
Buy now for only £99 £63!
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