Tamara Laporte – Host
Hello wonderful creative friend,
Welcome to the Life Book 2021 Taster Sessions! We are so excited you are here. :-)
We have 2 wonderful weeks cooked up for you. Get to know the amazing new Life Book 2021 Teaching Team and enjoy their wonderful creative free taster sessions!
All taster session content will run through 28th September 2020 to 11th October 2020 after which all taster sessions will POOF disappear unless you join Life Book 2021 which begins on January 1st. If you join Life Book 2021 you get over 80+ mixed media art sessions with a focus on art and wellbeing, a virtual gift bag with free printables/ discount codes/ free classes and more AND you keep life long access to all taster sessions too! This is a crazy good deal. Over 26,000+ people have enjoyed this crazy good deal since Life Book first began in 2012! :) Hope you’ll join us too! If you’re excited, you can already pre-order Life Book now or read more about it here.
If you haven’t yet, please join the Life Book Taster Sessions Facebook Group and share your thoughts, feelings and any art work you create in response to the activities! We can’t wait to connect with you and see your work! :)
I hope you enjoy all the Life Book Taster Sessions and that we will see you on Life Book 2021 next year too!!
Much Love
Tam & the Life Book 2021 Team <3
Life Book 2021, the full course, will begin on January 1st 2021, registration opens on Oct 12th 2020,
however you can pre-order it now if you want to! yay! :)
A Creative Warm Up for Summit Souls <3
Before we begin all the Taster Sessions 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 or Schminke 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
• brayer and some white gesso
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 28th with the opening sessions!
Much love
Tam & Team <3
Introduction to the Taster Sessions & Warm Up / How the Sessions will run
Guided Meditation/ Visualisation to Release Fears
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 26,000+ 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 over 56,000 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, 2 guinea pigs, 3 chickens and 4 crazy dogs Gizmo, Buddy and their 2 children: Oreo and Raven. She is supported in the studio by her awesome Unicorn Team: Gracie Howle, Maddie Turner and Dan Tanner.
If you too want to learn from Tam be sure to check out all the classes on offer by clicking here.
Connect with Tam on social media:
Life Book 2021, the full course, will begin on January 1st 2021, registration opens on Oct 12th 2020,
however you can pre-order it now if you want to! yay! :)
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 be able to try out other art crafts like art doll making, clay work, stone painting and we 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 a wonderful keepsake that you can treasure for the rest of your life.
If you sign up to Life Book 2021 – you retain access to all taster sessions AND you 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!
Join Life Book 2021 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 26,000+ people
since its inception in 2012!
Life Book 2021, the full course, will begin on January 1st 2021, registration opens on Oct 12th 2020,
however you can pre-order it now if you want to! yay! :)
