Hello wonderful creative friend!
Tamara Laporte – Host
Welcome to the 7 day replay of the 2nd Life Book Creativity & Wellbeing Summit! On this Summit I interviewed a range of Life Book 2020 artist teachers and chatted about creativity & wellbeing amongst other things! Not only that, each teacher has prepared an inspiring Summit Activity especially for you! These activities are intended to get your creative juices flowing and will put you in touch with the amazing healing power of your own creativity!
I LOVED chatting to all the Life Book 2020 teachers and look forward to sharing all the interviews and activities with you for another 7 days for FREE!
If you haven’t yet, please join the Life Book Summit Facebook Group and share your thoughts, feelings and any art work you created in response to the activities! We can’t wait to connect with you and see your work! :)
The 7 day replay runs from Friday 6th December to Thursday 12th December! All content will -poof- go away on 12th December midnight GMT! Unless! … you register for Life Book 2020! Yay!
Join Life Book 2020 HERE @ the Early Bird price by using the discount code: LOVEBOMB2020 at check out!
If you sign up to Life Book 2020, you will continue to keep access to ALL summit content + of course ALL Life Book 2020 content and a virtual gift bag to boot! All content will have life long access and it will be downloadable too! :)
I hope you enjoy all Summit content and that we will see you on Life Book 2020 next year too!!
Much Love
Tam & the Life Book 2020 Team <3
A Creative Warm Up for Summit Souls <3
Before we begin all the summit fun, I wanted to share a creative warm up with you all (first published on Life Book 2018) so that those of you who feel a bit apprehensive or are new to the mixed media world can become more familiar with mixed media and what it can do! I also hope this will alleviate any fears some of you may have and simply give you a good introduction into the magical world of mixed media art making!
Included in this warm up is a guided meditation / visualisation that will help you let go of any fears you may be experiencing.
I hope you enjoy this warm up!
For those of you who are not in the Facebook group or missed the post, you can download a general suggested supply list that covers some of the most commonly used mixed media supplies from this link – however, you do not need all these supplies necessarily.
We encourage people as much as possible to ‘make-do’ with what they have already available and buy some supplies here and there, but overall you can replace and substitute what the teachers use with what you already have. If you wanted to buy the bare essentials, I would buy:
• a pad of watercolour paper 140lbs (300gsm) 12 x 9″ hotpressed
• a graphite pencil to draw with + eraser
• some neocolor II crayons, colours: 1. salmon 2. magenta 3. teal 4. orangish yellow (you can buy these loose)
• a basic beginner/ student set of acrylics + some skin tone acrylics
• A small watercolour set of vibrant colours (I love Jane Davenport watercolour sets)
• 2 or 3 Tombow markers (or ecoline markers) in your favourite colours
• 1 white posca pen/ 1 black posca pen (fine nibs)
• some gel medium (impasto gel)
• some collage papers
Many people who come on our courses like to look at the lesson first and then see if they want to buy any of supplies used then. In any case, you now have some information regarding supplies available! 
Enjoy the warm up and see you again on September 16th with the opening sessions!
Much love
Tam & Team <3
Guided Meditation/ Visualisation to Release Fears
Creative Warm Up – Make Your Mark with Tamara Laporte
About Tamara Laporte:
“One of my missions in life is to help make this world a better place. My particular brand of ‘medicine’ is to help people get in touch with their innate creative fire so that they may live happier lives. Self love, self awareness and self connection play a big part in the work that I do with people. I think that improving our relationships with ourselves can have a direct positive impact on our relationships with others and with the world. My art work is stylised, innocent, colourful, layered and whimsical in nature.
I love avocados, kindness and messy hair.”
Tamara Laporte (‘willowing’) is a creative catalyst of thousands of beautiful people. She is a celebrated mixed media artist, author and art teacher who has been running her creative business since 2008. Her work can be described as ‘mixed media folk art’ with a focus on ‘magical realism’. It ranges from whimsical children’s illustrations to a more stylised fantasy art. Love, mystery, innocence, hope, spirituality, kindness and self-connection inspires her art work. Symbolism and layering play a big part in her work. Her paintings often contain healing themes, uplifting messages and inspirational poetry.
She believes that the act of creating art can be a gateway into healing and personal growth – often, her art classes contain an element of self development as well as learning art techniques. She is deeply devoted to helping people get in touch with their creative fire and would love to help YOU too to get in touch with the artist in you!
Tam is the inventor and creator of Life Book a year long art course that includes some of the most celebrated mixed media and personal development teachers out there. Since its inception it’s been joined by over 23,300+ people who’ve gained tremendous artistic and personal skills through it.
Deeply passionate and caring for the well-being of the world and its people, Tam works tirelessly to bring uplifting, nourishing, creative and empowering content to her amazing tribe of almost 50,000+ souls.
Her work and articles have been published in several art magazines and books and she’s been interviewed for several online radio stations. She runs a variety of popular art classes in her online art school (here) which has almost 49,000 members and grows with about 150-200 mixed enthusiasts each month!
Tam lives and works in the South of England with her handsome husband Andy, two magical boys; Dylan & Elliot, 4 guinea pigs, 4 chickens and 2 adorable dogs Gizmo & Buddy. Her two awesome team members in the studio are the glitter-filled Gracie Howle and the wildly-mesmeric Maddie Turner.
If you too want to learn from Tam be sure to check out all the classes on offer by clicking here.
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Join Life Book 2020 for more Creativity and Wellbeing!
“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 artists, crafters and healers who are all gearing up to share their art, crafting and personal growth techniques with YOU!
Joined by over 23,250+ people
since its inception in 2012!
With a holistic approach to creativity, 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 also be able to try out other art crafts like art doll making, clay work, stone painting and we will also provide you with nurturing and nourishing personal development activities (like yoga, mindfulness and non-violent communication) to support any personal development you’re undertaking. Your final book with your art work in it will function as wonderful keepsake that you can treasure for the rest of your life
If you sign up to Life Book 2020 – you retain access to all summit interviews + activities AND get access to a year long art and healing course with over 80+ art & wellbeing sessions which are sure to inspire you! You’ll also get a special Virtual Gift Bag with extra gifts from all the teachers such as: free classes/ free high resolution print outs of gorgeous art work & special discounts etc!
