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July 25, 2022

Okay, now this is cool!

By Dan Tanner  |   in art journal  | Tags: art musings , art journal , tamara laporte , Willowing Arts  

How is life in your corner of the world? I hope you’re keeping safe and grounded in these times of turmoil, if you’re struggling; I understand and hold you in my heart. I love you, I’m sorry. It’s hard, I know. Life continues to be difficult for many of us. The only way I know how to deal with things is by making as much positive impact on the things I *can* control in my immediate surroundings and by painting the world colourful again.

I painted this kitty cat for one of my main lessons for Kaleidoscope 2022 the other day and he cheered me up so much. The creative process can be such a wonderfully meditative and supporting process while we’re dealing with all this! I hope you find some creative time to help you ground and heal too!

 

By the way – if you missed the Woman Unleashed Retreat, you can now paint a colourful portrait of an elephant, here on my youtube channel. Enjoy!

SOMETHING REALLY COOL

As I was prepping my other lesson for the next Kaleidoscope 2022 course, I discovered something SUPER COOL on google! Many of you may already be aware, but I only just discovered this a week or so ago!

So for another one of my lessons for Kaleidoscope I’m focusing on another painting by Gustav Klimt (The Kiss) and as I was browsing da interwebs, I suddenly noticed that google offered the image of The Kiss to be viewed in something called ‘google arts and culture’. At first it didn’t thrill me that much as I thought it was just a normal image gallery, but when I clicked on the image; HOLY MOLY; it turns out that this is a SUPER HIGH RESOLUTION of the original painting (not a replica/ not a small jpeg etc) and within the program you can zoom in like to the tiniest of canvas detail!!! As an artist: this is like MY HEAVEN! ha! Add a cheeseboard to it and my life is complete! 😆

For serious everyone: you can see super close up on famous paintings (without losing the quality) that hang in museums! Bonus: if you click ‘street view’ you can “walk” around the museum it’s hanging in!

Go check it out (no affiliation whatsoever!) Be sure to zoom & zoom & zoom & zoom in on the images you google! I just absolutely think this is the coolest thing and a fabulous learning/ study tool to learn from the old masters! 😍😍😍 So, google a famous painting that hangs in a museum, then click on the image that is in the google arts and culture gallery, then zoom! Voila: you can intimately take an amazingly close look at the brush strokes of the masters!!

 

Check out the quality of this super close up detail:

 

And here it’s even closer! You can even see so close up that you can see the crackle of some of the painting starting to crack and the fine details of the gold shimmer!:

 

I can see myself spending a lot of time in these galleries!

Hope this note brought some inspiration.
Have a great week.
Thanks for all your love and support!
Much love, Tam 💕

 

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Spent time painting this very sweet and soothing barn owl this evening. Even though I`ve been making art for years and know the calming effect creating art has on my nervous system; I continue to be amazed by how stress relieving it can be to just sit with paints and let the feelings flow. 😍

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Spent time painting this very sweet and soothing barn owl this evening. Even though I've been making art for years and know the calming effect creating art has on my nervous system; I continue to be amazed by how stress relieving it can be to just sit with paints and let the feelings flow. 😍

The Cozy Fest Alert! 🍁☕️Hello friends! As the weather here in the Northern hemisphere turns to dark, cold and COZY, I’m excited to let you know of a new creative bundle I’ve joined this year: The Cozy Fest!

The Cozy Fest is creative bundle which contains a collection of workshops, courses and eBooks that help you slow down, turn inwards, create with your hands and savour the cozy side of life! Perfect for this time of year! ✨🙌✨

Whether you’re an artist, a maker, or simply someone who loves slow, intentional living; The Cozy Fest is for you.

It’s a space to explore, create, and reconnect with what brings you joy.
What I love about this bundle is that you are introduced to a variety of creative disciplines: from art making to sewing & basket making to photography, mosaics and wreath making, it has a little of everything!

And of course, I’m including a class of mine too!

Check out some of the fun projects that are included (see images).

And the class I’m including is of the sweet kitten sitting by the moonlight (called Guiding Light), it gives off such a sweet cozy vibe for me, I thought it fitted this bundle perfectly! meow! This is a full online class, showing you how to draw and then paint this luminous painting.

This bundle, valued at over $1000 USD, is only available to buy for one week at the heavily discounted price of $65 USD.

☞ Buy The Cozy Fest Here:
https://bit.ly/TamCozy

And another wonderful thing: For every Bundle sold, the organisers of the bundle will donate €1 to One Tree Planted, a non-profit organisation dedicated to global reforestation.

Hope you’ll give it a looksie and sign up my creative friends!
Much Love,
Tam

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The Cozy Fest Alert! 🍁☕️Hello friends! As the weather here in the Northern hemisphere turns to dark, cold and COZY, I’m excited to let you know of a new creative bundle I’ve joined this year: The Cozy Fest!

The Cozy Fest is creative bundle which contains a collection of workshops, courses and eBooks that help you slow down, turn inwards, create with your hands and savour the cozy side of life! Perfect for this time of year! ✨🙌✨

Whether you’re an artist, a maker, or simply someone who loves slow, intentional living; The Cozy Fest is for you.

It’s a space to explore, create, and reconnect with what brings you joy.
What I love about this bundle is that you are introduced to a variety of creative disciplines: from art making to sewing & basket making to photography, mosaics and wreath making, it has a little of everything!

And of course, I’m including a class of mine too!

Check out some of the fun projects that are included (see images). 

And the class I’m including is of the sweet kitten sitting by the moonlight (called Guiding Light), it gives off such a sweet cozy vibe for me, I thought it fitted this bundle perfectly! meow! This is a full online class, showing you how to draw and then paint this luminous painting.

This bundle, valued at over $1000 USD, is only available to buy for one week at the heavily discounted price of $65 USD.

☞ Buy The Cozy Fest Here:
https://bit.ly/TamCozy

And another wonderful thing: For every Bundle sold, the organisers of the bundle will donate €1 to One Tree Planted, a non-profit organisation dedicated to global reforestation.

Hope you’ll give it a looksie and sign up my creative friends!
Much Love,
Tam

When You Wish Upon a Star. ✨

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This is one of the paintings we`ll make on A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales next year! 😊

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When You Wish Upon a Star. ✨

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This is one of the paintings we'll make on A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales next year! 😊

Haven't joined yet? 

Use: FAIRY25 for 25% off this magical course and join us here;

https://bit.ly/AYOM-Tam (or link in bio/ link tree/ stories)

Hallelujah. 💕

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Hallelujah. 💕
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