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Life Book Tam Edition Life Book 2023 The Tam Edition
Buy all of Tam's awesome lessons from Life Book 2023! :)
Learn a wide variety of mixed media techniques from Tam! Themed around self-development and healing, Life Book 2023 The Tam Edition is a celebration and honouring of self.
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Life Book Tam Edition Life Book 2024 The Tam Edition
Buy all of Tam's awesome lessons from Life Book 2024! :)
Learn a wide variety of mixed media techniques from Tam! Themed around self-development and healing, Life Book 2024 The Tam Edition is a celebration and honouring of self.
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Life Book Tam Edition Life Book 2022 The Tam Edition
Buy all of Tam's awesome lessons from Life Book 2022! :)
Learn a wide variety of mixed media techniques from Tam! Themed around self-development and healing, Life Book 2022 The Tam Edition is a celebration and honouring of self.
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Life Book Tam Edition Life Book 2018 The Tam Edition
Buy all of Tam's awesome lessons from Life Book 2018! :)
Learn a wide variety of mixed media techniques from Tam! Themed around self-development and healing, Life Book 2018 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 2020 The Tam Edition
Buy all of Tam's awesome lessons from Life Book 2020! :)
Learn a wide variety of mixed media techniques from Tam! Themed around self-development and healing, Life Book 2020 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 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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A Year of
Registration is now open! Join us on a year-long mixed-media art adventure inspired by magic, myth and fairy tales. Learn new techniques, create enchanting artwork and connect with a supportive community of creatives.
A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales is a year-long, immersive mixed media art course exploring the enchanting worlds of magic, myth, and story. Hosted by renowned artist and author Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts, and joined by 30 inspiring guest artists, this course invites you to embark on a magical creative adventure. Together, we’ll dive deeply into the art of fairy tales, exploring how story, imagination, magic and wonder can transform both your artwork and your inner world.
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!
Posting this one again now that I`ve properly scanned it! --> I’ve been playing with chiaroscuro lately — that dramatic dance between light and dark you see in old black-and-white portraits. Never painted just in black and white before (well, a little indigo crept in 👀). I love how moody it feels!
For my next Year of Light lesson we are exploring `chiaroscuro` (which is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition). I`ve always loved the black and white photos of people like Marlene Ditriech and wanted to try achieve that type of effect in a painting! I don`t think I`ve EVER painted just in black and white before, but really loved doing it! (Well, I say black and white, but this also contains indigo blue and paynes gray). 😊 Really pleased with it, it has such a `vibe` (as my teen kids would say haha). ♥️♥️♥️
The wonderful Jennifer (@therapistsanctuary) and I filmed another episode for our series on the tubes (up soon!). Here are some of the pages that came out of that session for me. 😊 Loved working with fluorescent pink and in the end adding in the teal! 😍😍😍
Art Oasis! Another fun free art event!
Hello my friends! Exciting news!
I know we’ve literally just finished the tasters for A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales but I wanted to let you know about another amazing free art event I’m sure you’d love to join and it’s starting in only 2 days! 😊
So, I’m super excited to let you know that I am part of Art Oasis, a FREE online creative retreat starting October 18 2025. Yay! 🥳🎉🎊 (organised by the amazing Jessica Swift).
For 7 days, artists (including me!) will be sharing lessons, stories, and creative inspiration to help you slow down, refill your creative well, and remember how good it feels to make art just for YOU.
Here’s what you can expect each day:
💕 Fresh, inspiring art lessons (all levels welcome)
💕 Cozy Conversations – real, heartfelt chats with artists about our creative journeys
💕 Daily creative prompts to keep your ideas flowing
💕A friendly, global, online community of fellow creatives
How It Works
🎨 Watch online – anytime, anywhere, at your own pace. Watch one lesson or all of them – there are no rules and no risk. It’s completely FREE!
🎨 Fit it into your schedule however works best for you!
🎨 Grab inspiring free gifts from the featured artists.
🎨 Want to extend your stay in the Oasis? Grab the VIP Pass!
I’ll be teaching a session on ‘play and the inner child’! Attached is the painting you`ll make with me (or something like it) 😊
… and I’d love for you to join me! ♥️
To join click here:
https://bit.ly/ArtOasisTamx (or find link in story/ bio/ linktree)
This event is all about permission; to play, to explore, to create without pressure. If you’re craving that kind of creative joy, I hope I’ll see you inside the Oasis!
Much Love,
Tam 💕
PS – After you sign up, you’ll have the option to upgrade to the VIP Pass – this gives you forever access to every lesson (including mine!) and some incredible bonus content. If you grab it during registration, you’ll get the lowest price.
Haven’t done any abstract in a while and it called me this evening! I’m loving the combination of red and teal! 😍😍😍
