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Animals Beautiful Bugs
Let me show you how you can create a beautiful portrait with only 8 supplies!!
In this lesson I show you how you can create a some beautiful whimsical bugs! Believe me they can be super fun to make! bzzz join me!
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Faces / Portraits Turn a Little into a LOT!
Let me show you how you can create a beautiful portrait with only 8 supplies!!
In this lesson I show you how you can create a beautiful journal page with 8 supplies only! Whaaaat? Surely, it’s not possible?! But yes yes it is! :) You can create wonderful, beautiful, magical things with only a few supplies. Join us now!
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Faces / Portraits She Blooms in Ink
Learn how to create beautifully vibrant Flower Girls in Ink on this exciting new course with Tam! <3
7 weeks of drawing, painting and creative art journalling to help keep you learning and inspired! Come and join us! <3
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Faces / Portraits A Heart Full of Happy
Join 'A Heart Full of Happy' and explore how a gratitude exercise can be helpful in our lives :)
Learn to create an angled portrait and explore the luminous vibrancy of inks in my ‘flower girl portrait’ style! -
Magical and Fairytale Pete’s Dragon (with bonus lessons)
Paint Pete & his Dragon with me! :)
Paint Pete & his Dragon with me! :)
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Faces / Portraits Compassionate Flow – Deer Girl
Learn how to create a painting that includes a front facing whimsical girl with a deer and bird! :)
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Magical and Fairytale Snow White
Join Tam in this 'Snow White' class! :)
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Faces / Portraits Garden Fairy (Tending to your Dreams)
Join Garden Fairy :)
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Magical and Fairytale Ever After 2016 – Fairytale Bundle
Buy all of the fairy tale lessons from Ever After 2016 in this one awesome bundle! :)
Learn a wide variety of mixed media techniques in 11 in-depth lessons and 3 bonus lessons from 10 awesome and inspiring teachers PLUS Tam! Create mixed media art journal pages themed around Fairy Tales! In Ever After 2016 The Bundle Edition 11 wonderful teachers will show you how they add their unique spin on their chosen fairy tale!
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Magical and Fairytale Ever After 2017 – Fairytale Bundle
Buy all of the fairy tale lessons from Ever After 2017 in this one awesome bundle! :)
Learn a wide variety of mixed media techniques in 15 in-depth lessons and 2 bonus lessons from 14 amazing inspiring teachers PLUS Tam! Create mixed media art journal pages themed around Fairy Tales! In Ever After 2017 The Bundle Edition 15 wonderful teachers will show you how they add their unique spin on their chosen fairy tale!
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Magical and Fairytale Ever After 2017 – Fairytale Bundle
Buy all of the fairy tale lessons from Ever After 2017 in this one awesome bundle! :)
Learn a wide variety of mixed media techniques in 15 in-depth lessons and 2 bonus lessons from 14 amazing inspiring teachers PLUS Tam! Create mixed media art journal pages themed around Fairy Tales! In Ever After 2017 The Bundle Edition 15 wonderful teachers will show you how they add their unique spin on their chosen fairy tale!
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Magical and Fairytale Ever After 2019 – Fairytale Bundle
Buy all of the fairy tale lessons from Ever After 2019 in this one awesome bundle! :)
Learn a wide variety of mixed media techniques from 15 amazing inspiring teachers PLUS Tam! Create mixed media art journal pages themed around Fairy Tales! In Ever After 2019 The Bundle Edition 16 wonderful teachers will show you how they add their unique spin on their chosen fairy tale!
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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!
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.
