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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!
Just leaving this little guy here on my timeline here for your moment of serotonin release. It`s the boy version of the other kitten I did the other day. He has such a sweet quality to him! 😍😍😍 - Make this painting with me? --> https://bit.ly/CreatingCuties (or link in bio/ link tree). ♥️♥️♥️
"Kitty Love & Whimsy" - I ran my very first online art course in early 2009. It was called World of Whimsy, and I think I had around 100 sign-ups, which felt absolutely amazing at the time!
I was pregnant with my first son Dylan and had just left a job in market research to follow this new path. Back then, hardly anyone was running online art classes. Online events with video were still rare. YouTube was just starting to become known, and the idea of watching anything online felt brand new and exciting.
Compare that to how things are now with so many people doing this kind of work! Crazy how things change!
What drew me to running online classes was how they brought together so many of the things I loved and was (sort of) good at: teaching, making art, editing video, Photoshopping, building website. I’ve always enjoyed tech, which is unusual for an artist! Just two years before that, I had been teaching art, music, and drama at a British international school in Sri Lanka. And beyond all that, I loved that I could support people’s mental health through creativity, it was a win-win-win-win-win kind of thing for me haha. 😊
The painting I’m sharing today was the promotional image for World of Whimsy, the course. It has that sweet, quirky charm I loved at the time that helped me so much to get reconnected to that inner child space and heal some of the trauma wounds that were still lingering.
I was enchanted by the idea of a cat-like creature walking its pet mouse on a leash. And if you’re wondering about the words in the background; they’re the lyrics to “Everybody Wants to Be a Cat” from The Aristocats. 🐾🎶
This is day 7 of a ‘gentle return to social media’ read more about this practice here: http://bit.ly/3IHFxir 🌱
“I cry glitter.” ✨
A lyrical quote from a song by Antony and the Johnsons (now Anohni and the Johnsons), whose music I was utterly obsessed with; so vulnerable, poetic, and soul-baring. One of my favourites, Bird Guhl, is from their hauntingly beautiful album I Am a Bird Now. Anohni’s is one of my favourites; full of ache, truth, and beauty.
This painting, also titled Bird Guhl, was part of my early Paint Over Collage series published in Somerset Studio (2013). I enlarged it in photoshop today and was struck by the wild abandon in the marks I made back then; loose, expressive, instinctive.
It reminded me of beginner’s mind; that freedom we have when we start creating, before perfectionism creeps in. Funny how we spend years striving to “improve,” only to realise that joy lives in the unlearning. As Picasso said:
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
I often feel torn between the illustrator and the painter in me; one seeks polish, the other freedom. But I’m learning that spontaneity has its own kind of perfection.
Thanks for reading. 💗
I’d love to hear if you’ve ever tried to return to that playful, messy, beautiful beginner’s mind in your own creative journey.
#BirdGuhl #Anohni #MixedMediaArt #BeginnerMind #ExpressiveArt #CollageArt #ArtMusings #Willowing #arthealing This is day 6 of a ‘gentle return to social media’ read more about this practice here: http://bit.ly/3IHFxir 🌱
