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Creativity and Wellbeing
Life Book 2023 Bonuses
Come create a colourful, grounding elephant and a sweet, magnificent whale!
Create a colourful, grounding elephant and a sweet, magnificent whale in these 2 bonus sessions, by Tamara Laporte, from Life Book 2023
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Animals
Life Book 2021 Bonuses
Come create a beautiful, colourful, happy owl and a sweet sweatered up bear with me! :)
Create a cute bear in a sweater who is helping to celebrate all your positive features and achievements and a colourful happy owl, in these 2 bonus sessions from Life Book 2021.
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Floral and Nature
Whimsical Spring Flowers
Create a Whimsical Spring Flowers painting!
Create a Whimsical Spring Flowers painting! -
Faces / Portraits
You are The Light
Learn to create a high contrast portrait!
Learn to create a high contrast portrait! -
Life Book 2022
Registration Now Open! Come join this popular course which lasts for the entire year! You'll learn wonderful art techniques and how to become a happier person in a huge group of like minded people! :)
“Life Book, a celebration and honouring of YOU” is a year-long mixed media art class organised by Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts. Tam is joined by incredible art teachers & wellness experts who are all gearing up to share their art & wellbeing techniques, tips and tricks with YOU! Themed around self-development and healing, you’ll be creating several loose mixed media art journal pages per month which by the end of the year you will bind into a glorious journal (a Life Book)! You will have a wonderful keepsake that you can treasure for the rest of your life!
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Life Book 2021
Life Book 2021 - Registration Now Open! Come join this popular course which lasts for the entire year! You'll learn wonderful art techniques and how to become a happier person in a huge group of likeminded people! :)
“Life Book, a celebration and honouring of YOU” is a year-long mixed media art class organised by Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts. Tam is joined by 30 incredible art teachers & wellness experts who are all gearing up to share their art & wellbeing techniques, tips and tricks with YOU! Themed around self-development and healing, you’ll be creating several loose mixed media art journal pages per month which by the end of the year you will bind into a glorious journal (a Life Book)! You will have a wonderful keepsake that you can treasure for the rest of your life!
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Life Book 2020
Life Book 2020 - Registration Now Open! Come join this popular course which lasts for the entire year! You'll learn wonderful art techniques and how to become a happier person in a huge group of likeminded people! :)
“Life Book, a celebration and honouring of YOU” is a year-long mixed media art class organised by Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts. Tam is joined by 30 incredible art teachers & wellness experts who are all gearing up to share their art & wellbeing techniques, tips and tricks with YOU! Themed around self-development and healing, you’ll be creating several loose mixed media art journal pages per month which by the end of the year you will bind into a glorious journal (a Life Book)! You will have a wonderful keepsake that you can treasure for the rest of your life!
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Whimsical / Stylised / Folk Art
Party Time
Draw a “lollipop girl” who is in “party time” mode!
Draw a “lollipop girl” who is in “party time” mode! -
Winter and Christmas
The Willowing Winter Bundle
A Fun Bundle of Wintery Art Classes for the whole family! :-)
A perfect little package of Wintery art classes to keep you and your loved ones creative in the dark evenings this winter. We have put together a selection of customer favourites with a winter theme. Why not give your very own hand made art to a loved one this Holiday Season or gift this class pack to them?
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Magical and Fairytale
Ever After – Full Course with Style Development – Self Study
“Ever After” is a mixed media art & style development course with a fairytale theme hosted by Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts.
Tam is joined by 15 popular mixed media art teachers who will all share beautiful fairy-tale inspired lessons with you AND, in style dev segment they will also divulge all their hints and tips on how they developed their own style and how YOU TOO can find your own unique voice as an artist! :) Yay!
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Floral and Nature
Sacred Trees
Create Sacred Trees!
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Magical and Fairytale
Goddess Athena
Join Tam to create a beautiful painting of Goddess Athena with her beautiful owl friend. Learn to play with watercolours and pencil.
Let’s make a beautiful painting of Goddess Athena together! :)
Products
A Year of Magic and Fairy Tales
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!
Wrote and painted this 3 years ago. Sharing it again as I think it`s so powerful:
"Blink"
It’s over in a blink, she said.
“Swallows stop flying,
if you’re not careful,
if you’re not brave,
if you’re not wispy and grand and dramatic and full of shadow and let it all leak out, like liquid gold.”
Notice.
Every single minute.
Every single fraction of the astounding glory of the moment. Here. Now.
And don’t pretend you can’t hear those angels sing. Like bells, trills, high c’s, harmonies hummed like the sweetest honey.
Every breath is a song. Every tick tock an ocean of meaning, an orchestra of alive vibrancy wanting its way with you, soulfully.
Yes.
You cannot refuse this offer. No is not an option. Jump in with open arms. Swim, fly, cry, run, weep, scream and sing. Let it all happen. Take it all in, before the mighty blink, blinks.
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.
