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January 22, 2024

Some Inspiration For You

By Tamara Laporte  |   in art journal  | Tags: art musings , art journal , tamara laporte , Willowing Arts  

Some Inspiration for You ♥️
I hope this message finds you well and that you’ve had a good 2024 so far. ♥️♥️♥️ I’ve started my year by going gently and taking it easy! I’m trying to practise what I preach and this year will be for finding joy and bringing joy but also for rejuvenating and recovering lost energies from the past.

It’s so funny how life reflects art and art reflects life because in response to my ‘taking it easy’, I’ve also been making really soothing and calming art. I am finding myself called to creating art that invokes a sense of relaxation and peace. Don’t you just love these beautiful botanicals? I could just sink into them!

 

 

I’ve created a little inspirational and soothing video of the making of this painting here. The music, too, is really relaxing. If you prefer watching videos on TikTok, you can also watch the video HERE. (and I love connecting over there so I welcome a follow there too!) 😊

And for those of you who are on Life Book 2024, we’ll also be creating a painting like this for my February lesson! 😍

It’s not too late to join us if you also want to learn to make a painting like this.

Join us here. ❤️🌟💕

Have a wonderful rest of your month!
Much love, Tam 💕

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You are worthy ♥️♥️♥️

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You are worthy ♥️♥️♥️

I love how gold leaf can add such magical touches to a painting. 😍😍😍

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I love how gold leaf can add such magical touches to a painting. 😍😍😍

Friends, this little guy, omg, he makes me melt. He’s a magical little troll, a messenger of nature, telling us all; “it will all be ok in the end”. He offers hugs, a listening ear, breathing sessions, sit-spots in nature with him and warm cookies if you give his hair a good brush once in a while. 😉

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Friends, this little guy, omg, he makes me melt. He’s a magical little troll, a messenger of nature, telling us all; “it will all be ok in the end”. He offers hugs, a listening ear, breathing sessions, sit-spots in nature with him and warm cookies if you give his hair a good brush once in a while. 😉

Rapunzel freed. 🖤✨💛

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Rapunzel freed. 🖤✨💛

Rapunzel – Freed.

I went on quite a journey with this painting. Reading the original Grimm version of Rapunzel deeply moved me: her long, beautiful hair cut by the witch who raised her, her exile into the wilderness while pregnant with twins, her survival of all that hardship, and finally her becoming the one who saves the prince.

To me, this is true female empowerment. I wanted to paint Rapunzel as defiant and transformed. And crucially, I wanted to give her long hair again - not as a ladder, not as something to be used or admired by others, but as a reclamation of power. A part of her body that was once appropriated becomes fully her own again.

Teaching on A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales; I`m loving diving deep into the original fairy tales, myths and stories and bringing one or other aspect alive of these stories on the page.

This piece is a `paint over collage` painting. We start off by laying down our collage elements and then layer paint, crayons, markers, acrylics, gold leaf etc on top. A deeply layered and moving process. 😍😍😍

I adore how this came out. I`m particularly in love with the lavenders, hot pink and layer collage pieces in this painting.

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Rapunzel – Freed.

I went on quite a journey with this painting. Reading the original Grimm version of Rapunzel deeply moved me: her long, beautiful hair cut by the witch who raised her, her exile into the wilderness while pregnant with twins, her survival of all that hardship, and finally her becoming the one who saves the prince.

To me, this is true female empowerment. I wanted to paint Rapunzel as defiant and transformed. And crucially, I wanted to give her long hair again - not as a ladder, not as something to be used or admired by others, but as a reclamation of power. A part of her body that was once appropriated becomes fully her own again.

Teaching on A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales; I'm loving diving deep into the original fairy tales, myths and stories and bringing one or other aspect alive of these stories on the page.

This piece is a 'paint over collage' painting. We start off by laying down our collage elements and then layer paint, crayons, markers, acrylics, gold leaf etc on top. A deeply layered and moving process. 😍😍😍

I adore how this came out. I'm particularly in love with the lavenders, hot pink and layer collage pieces in this painting.
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