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Life Book Tam Edition Life Book 2017 The Tam Edition
Buy all of Tam's awesome lessons from Life Book 2017! :)
Learn a wide variety of mixed media techniques in 9 in-depth lessons and 3 bonus lessons all from Tam! Themed around self-development and healing, Life Book 2016 The Tam Edition is a celebration and honouring of self. Create loose mixed media art journal pages which you then bind into a glorious journal (a Life Book)!
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Life Book Tam Edition Life Book 2019 The Tam Edition
Buy all of Tam's awesome lessons from Life Book 2019! :)
Learn a wide variety of mixed media techniques from Tam! Themed around self-development and healing, Life Book 2019 The Tam Edition is a celebration and honouring of self. Create loose mixed media art journal pages which you then bind into a glorious journal (a Life Book)!
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Animals Give Your Story to Wisdom
Join Give Your Story to Wisdom :)
Learn to create a trusted elephant friend (the elephant is a muse of mine) :) -
Faces / Portraits The Song of Me
Come and create your own personal ‘dreamboard’ with Tam!
Tam shows you how she creates her interpretation of a ‘dreamboard’, in this beautiful paint over collage class.
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Faces / Portraits The Happy Traveller
Com join The Happy Traveller, learn to make a beautiful front facing girl with her animal friends!
Join this wonderfully inspiring course. You’ll learn how to draw and shade a front facing girl with her owl and elephant friend on a mixed media background. Includes a meditation, an in depth PDF and approx 4 hours of video content.
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Skin Tones Winter Soul Flakes
Learn to create wintery ‘lollipop’ girls in 3 different skin tones and little whimsical animal friends!
Learn how to create beautiful different skin tones and whimsical girls with their animals friends. This is a 4 week course with a bonus on how to draw snowflakes. Come join now!
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Art Journalling The Beacon of Light
Come and create a ‘whimsical figure’ that represents a ‘guiding light’ for you!
Tam shows you how to be create a whimsical looking being which we’ve come to -affectionately- call: ‘The Beacon of Light’ :) The character represents your connection to ‘the divine’ however way you interpret ‘the divine’ to be.
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Life Book Tam Edition Life Book 2016 The Tam Edition
Buy all of Tam's awesome lessons from Life Book 2016! :)
Learn a wide variety of mixed media techniques in 9 in-depth lessons and 3 bonus lessons all from Tam! Themed around self-development and healing, Life Book 2016 The Tam Edition is a celebration and honouring of self. Create loose mixed media art journal pages which you then bind into a glorious journal (a Life Book)!
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Life Book Tam Edition Life Book 2015 The Tam Edition
9 in-depth mixed media art lessons plus 3 bonus lessons by Tam from Life Book 2015 :)
Learn a wide variety of mixed media techniques in 8 in-depth lessons and 3 bonus lessons all from Tam! Themed around self-development and healing, Life Book 2015 The Tam Edition is a celebration and honouring of self. Create loose mixed media art journal pages which you then bind into a glorious journal (a Life Book)!
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Art Journalling The Sacred Inner Eye
Create a life like eye and get in touch with the inner spark that knows how GOOD ENOUGH you are!
The Sacred Inner Eye lesson is all about getting in touch with that inner divine/ sacred spark of you that actually DOES know your worth and how incredibly amazingly GOOD ENOUGH, you actually are!
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3 Dimensional Art Doll Angel
Learn to make a beautiful intricate art doll angel out of creative paper clay!
Come and have a wonderful time creating your own mixed media art doll angel! Learn to make a beautiful intricate art doll angel out of creative paper clay in this magical class!
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3 Dimensional Christmas Elephant
Learn how to create your own precious little Christmas Elephant with paper clay!
Make an adorable little elephant figurine with Tam. Then hang this cute elephant your Christmas tree or just put up on your window sill!
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Creating Cuties
Join Tam in her newest SOLO course and paint a series of super cute cutie pies! 😃 Learn to paint sweet, cute, adorable animal characters full of joy and innocence!
Join Tam in her newest SOLO course and paint a series of super cute cutie pies! 😃 Learn to paint sweet, cute, adorable animal characters full of joy and innocence!
Expressive Soul Portraits
Join Tam in her newest SOLO course and paint a series of Expressive Soul Portraits with her!
Join Tam in her newest SOLO course and paint a series of Expressive Soul Portraits with her!
Mastering Mixed Media – Expo – 2025 – VIP
Purchase your VIP - All Access Pass for Mastering Mixed Media!
Mastering Mixed Media – Expo 2025 is a two-week, online mixed media art event celebrating the joy of creative play, experimentation, and expression. Hosted by renowned artist and author Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts, this event brings together 35+ inspiring mixed media artists from around the world. Together, they’ll share a wide variety of lessons exploring texture, layering, colour, and mixed media magic to spark your creativity and expand your skills. – Life long and downloadable access available for VIP students!
This painting (2014) was a bit of a turning point in my creative process. I started becoming more deliberate with my marks, colour placement, and composition. I remember struggling with the background for ages (it felt boring and flat) until I added those orange marks and the black grungy border. Suddenly, it transformed into one of my all-time favourite pieces. It’s wild how a few small changes can make such a huge difference.
Looking at it now, I’m struck by how almost all the characters in my work have little companions by their side; usually animals. They feel like familiars, guardian angels, or ‘dæmons,’ as in Philip Pullman’s books, where animals are extensions of the soul helping you wherever you go. Weren’t those books just magical? I’m thinking of re-reading them.
It’s fascinating (and a little sad) that nature hasn’t given us this in real life; a constant supportive friend built right into our existence. Imagine a little being who’s always with you and also part of you. You’d always have a little friend with you, some of us wouldn’t be so alone. I worry about human beings and about how so many of us feel so alone. 😔
I think a lot about how humans thrive in connection, yet capitalism and individualism have eroded so much of that. I wish for everyone to have friendship, family, belonging, and a sense of home.
Also; the little fox from this very painting now lives on my friend Bekah’s skin as a tattoo. What an honour that is!
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This is day 12 of a ‘gentle return to social media’ read more about this practice here: http://bit.ly/3IHFxir 🌱
Hello my lovely friends, I have great news! My friend @idaandersenlang is running her FREE retreat called ‘Art Soul Gathering’ again this year aaaaand … YOU are invited! 😃 Yay! 🥳🎉🎊
Celebrate the Wonders of Nature and the Beauty of the Human Spirit with 12 days of artmaking.
Come, hear the winds of your intuition whisper, and let the waves of blissful nature infuse creativity into your art. 🎨🌿
In the Art Soul Gathering 2025, you’ll enjoy free lessons from 16 celebrated artist teachers. Each are gifting you with their beautiful visions and artistic techniques to inspire your creative journey with Nature and Spirit.
For my lesson I want to teach you how to paint a beautiful happy dolphin that is jumping out of -what can only be called- a CONFETTI OCEAN. 😂😁😆
Look how joyful!
You will become part of a worldwide community of creative souls and get to know the teachers. And oh, there will be plenty of art bonuses, give aways and surprises all the way through the gathering.
This free event is suitable for creatives of all levels - beginners, intermediate and experienced. The lessons are designed for you to enjoy, from just where you are in your creative journey. As we move through this experience together, we will lift each other up and hold creative sacred space. ✨🙏✨
Join us here: https://bit.ly/4lhZYjy (or link in bio/ linktree/ stories). ♥️♥️♥️
Much Love,
Tam 💕
Mental health struggles and trauma made me a seeker. I’ve been drawn to the spiritual from a young age. I started dabbling in ideas like astral travel at 15 (attempted doing it but never managed it, by the way 😅), read books about out-of-body experiences (hello, Robert Monroe!), and devoured stories by hypnotherapists who regressed their clients to past lives. It was (and still IS) deeply fascinating to me. A part of me was always looking for deeper answers through the spiritual.
Though I never felt called to the major religions (aside from a soft spot for Buddhism and Zen), I became intrigued by the more modern spiritual teachers of our time. I follow(ed) Eckhart Tolle, Matt Kahn, Ram Dass, Gangaji, Teal Swan, Adyashanti… and perhaps most notably, Byron Katie. I also loved listening to Alan Watts wax poetic about the nature of existence and the universe. For a while I worshipped these people in many ways and felt they held the answers to all of life’s mysterious problems.
Many of these figures have since fallen from their pedestals a bit, but their ideas and approaches to life helped me enormously in times of distress.
Byron Katie, in particular, was a huge influence on me for a time. I even interviewed her for my YouTube channel (the video is now private). During that conversation, she gifted me a scholarship to her "9 Days for The Work" program. I was deeply honoured, jumped on a plane... only to discover that the experience didn’t resonate with me at all. In fact, I found parts of it quite harmful.
I haven’t spoken publicly about this much, but those memories have been resurfacing lately. It feels important to acknowledge how easy it is to place ‘beloved gurus’ on pedestals, forgetting that they, too, are human. Flawed. Sometimes even dangerous.
In my own journey, I’ve learned to take what works from a teacher or teaching, and leave the rest behind. This painting (2014), featuring a powerful and beautiful quote by Byron Katie, reflects the love I had (and still have) for parts of her work. I still find some of it deeply helpful. But now I hold it all through a more balanced, humanised lens.
What about you? Have your gurus ever `fallen`? ♥️♥️♥️
✨ One Week to Go! Come Join the Cutie-Ful Fun ✨
Friends! Here a joyful reminder that Creating Cuties starts in ONE WEEK!
I’m so excited to begin this adorable, joy-sparking journey! Over the coming weeks, we’ll be painting the cutest animal characters, exploring playful colour palettes, and learning how to infuse our work with charm, expression, and warmth.
If you’ve been thinking about joining us, now’s the time! Doors will be closing soon and so does the 25% off early bird discount code, and I’d so love to welcome you in before we begin!
Here’s what Creating Cuties is all about:
🌈 You`ll learn to draw and paint whimsical animals in sweet, joy-filled scenes
🎨 I’ll guide you step-by-step with accessible, mixed media techniques
🐾 It’s beginner-friendly, playful, and full of feel-good vibes
💖 Most importantly, it’s all about creating art that lifts your spirit
The course officially starts on 12th August and you’ll get instant access to the classroom as soon as we begin.
✨ Don’t miss your chance to join this heartwarming, creativity-boosting adventure!
👉 Click here to sign up now:
https://bit.ly/CreatingCuties
Let’s paint some cuteness together; it would be an honour to have you in the class. ♥️♥️♥️
Big hugs and sparkly paws,
Tam
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I`m doing final preps for my new course (Creating Cuties) and just bumped into this super sweet image, totally forgot that I`d made this cute little character with funny speech bubble. One of the perks of perimenopause BRAIN FOG, is that you also forget the fun stuff you did for others and then are pleasantly surprised when you find random funny/ sweet things you did! 😂😁😆
