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August 23, 2018

Rainbow Unicorn Give Away #3 – Yay!

By Tamara Laporte  |   in unicorngiveaways  | Tags: unicorngiveaway , willowingarts , giveaway , willowing  

Creative friends, I’m beyond excited to kick off the August, awesomely exciting & fabulously sparkly:

Rainbow Unicorn Give Away!

Over here at Willowing Arts we love connecting our beautiful audience of mixed media and personal development enthusiasts (YOUOUOU!) with inspiring businesses, people, services and products! What better way to do this by organising some super fun GIVE AWAYS!! :D

Please check out all the wonderful people below, I am sure you will love their products, shops, sites, classes and services! And then leave a comment below for a chance to win one of the 15 prizes! Also be sure to check out the discount codes & additional freebies that some of our sponsors are sharing with Willowing Readers Only! :D

This give away will run for one week only until: 29th August 2018

This Give Away is now Closed!

Winners of all prizes are:
  1. Cat Caracelo – Free Moon Mapping eCourse – won by Melissa Hartman
  2. Cat Caracelo – 1:1 coaching session – won by Jill Crossfield
  3. Alena Hennessy – 1 space on A Year of Painting – won by Shelly Hoeft
  4. Katrina Koltes – 1 place on Watercolor dreams – won by Kathy Miller-Faaborg
  5. Kristina Solheim – 1 x 3-Month Business Coaching package – won by Heidi Johnson
  6. A set of 5 random postcards from Tamara Laporte – won by Anneke Wezeman
  7. A set of 10 random postcards from Tamara Laporte – won by Jen Korner
  8. One of Tamara Laporte’s inspiring notebooks – won by Debbie Luscombe
  9. One of Tamara Laporte’s inspiring notebooks – won by Gaylene Garney Davis
  10. One of Tamara Laporte’s inspiring notebooks – won by Kellie Neal
  11. A spot on Ever After 2018 – won by Donna Noble
  12. A signed copy of Tamara Laporte’s book – won by Laura Reading
  13. A spot on She Blooms in Inks!– won by Heidi Young

All winners and Give Away sponsors will be emailed in due course:)

Cat Caracelo + JourneyPath Institute

A Gift for You! Mythic Listening + Ancestral Healing is a powerful creative eCourse offered as a special Unicorn Gift! Deepen your art as process and explore new edges of the inner realm as you expand your soulful work in the world! Lucky Unicorns will win: Moon Mapping eCourse: Working with Phases, Ages and Stages of Life and a 1:1 coaching session. Cat Caracelo is an artist, guidess, depth coach and the founder of JourneyPath Institute, offering personal and professional programs that blend expressive art, transformative process and depth work to support healing and wholeness. Cat is Giving Away some wonderful prizes today! You can have a chance at winning  the following places, by entering a comment below: 1st prize: Free Moon Mapping eCourse: Working with Phases, Ages and Stages of Life; 2nd prize: 1:1 coaching session – Special Offer: All Willowing customers are offered a free place on eCourse Mythic Listening + Ancestral Healing – Get your Mythic Listening eCourse HERE

Alena Hennessy: Art Becomes You

 

Early bird registration is now open for my most popular class: A Year of Painting! This year I’ve listened to your wishes to create brand new lessons with (recorded) live talks and some special gifts! All levels of painting experience welcome. Every month, I will post a new lesson + technique related to intuitive painting (ink, acrylic watercolor, collage, mixed media and so forth). Stay inspired throughout the seasons, keep in contact with an awesome worldwide community, and learn new ways of seeing and expressing yourself in intuitive processes that explore a wide range of subject matter. Shop | facebook | blog | instagram. Other online classes found here. Alena is Giving Away 1 space on A Year of Painting to one lucky winner. All Willowing readers will receive an amazing 25% off the early bird savings: Use code paintforever. This tier tends to sell out quickly.

Katrina Koltes with Watercolor dreams


I’m an intuitive, nature-loving artist, mom and teacher who paints my visions, dreams, and journeys. I love to inspire and help others connect with their own intuition and magic through art. I’m offering 50% off my most popular class Watercolor Dreams! Explore with me how to create beautiful, luminous skin tones and dreamy, soulful portraits, while adding both surreal and nature-related elements to make expressive story art. This class is for whoever wants to loosen up and get familiar with your watercolors, and explore tons of new techniques, and gather loads of inspiration to set your imagination running wild! Check out my brand new pastel class “Whispers of Nature” (now 20% off regular price); my FREE TUTORIALS; and my other workshops. Follow me on Facebook  &  Instagram. Katrina is Giving Away 1 place on Watercolor dreams. All Willowing readers will receive 50% off her most popular class Watercolor Dreams! To get discount click here (offer valid for 2 weeks, till September 6th)

Ever After 2018 – Fairytale & Style Development Art Course

“Ever After” is a mixed media art & style development course with a fairytale theme hosted by Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts. Tam is joined by 14 popular mixed media art teachers who will all share beautiful fairy-tale inspired lessons with you AND, in the style development segment of the course; they will also divulge all their hints and tips on how they developed their own style and how YOU TOO can find your own unique voice as an artist! :) Yay! Tam is giving away 1 spot on Ever After 2018 for this give away, yay! :)

Kristina Solheim, Get to the Art

Ever wish for a magic wand to get your art business to the next level? There is a wealth of information out there about business, but the magic wand you need is a business coach! A coach guides and supports you at any stage of business. Explore coaching options here. Kristina is gifting 1 lucky artist a 3-Month Business Coaching package (value $1500)

 

 

A signed Copy of Tam’s Book

Based on much-loved mixed-media artist Tamara Laporte’s popular, multi-year series of online classes, Create Your Life Book offers mixed-media drawing and painting projects that can raise your awareness of and help you work through personal challenges and other obstacles to creating art and achieving self-fulfillment. Tam is giving away 1 signed copy of her book today!  

 

Random Postcards by Tam!

Tam is giving away 1 set of 5 random postcards and 1 set of 10 random postcards for 2 lucky winners! :) Tam’s postcards are beautifully vibrant and high quality! They are wonderful little pieces of art you can send to friends or hang up around the house!

 

 

 

 

Free Place on She Blooms in Inks

Tam is giving away 1 place on She Blooms in Inks!

Become inspired and creatively enriched on this new 7 week course in which I will show you how I create my signature ‘Flower Ink Girls’ that many people have so come to love! We will work with a variety of (mostly) inks, ink based supplies and other fluidy inky type supplies like Golden High Flow, Acrylics Inks, Watercolour Crayons and Spray Inks.

 

Inspiring Notebooks with Tam’s Art

Tam is giving away 3 of her inspiring notebooks! They measure approx 6″ x 8′ (15cm x 2cm) and have a full colour reproduction on the front cover of my artwork in a beautiful satin finish. They come with 48 white lined pages and are made of recycled paper.

Great little notebook that will fit in your bag and come with you whereever you go. ♥ Good for jotting down ideas and sketches for your journalling, scrap booking and/or planner! :)

 

 

 


Do you want to sponsor
the next Unicorn Give Away? You can!

These are by far the most fun sponsorship opportunities as well as very effective as give aways create excitement and drive extra traffic to the blog and therefore they also drive extra traffic to your sponsored give-away! :)

Over here at Willowing Arts we love connecting our beautiful audience of mixed media and personal development enthusiasts with inspiring businesses, people, services and products! Advertising on willowing.org is highly suitable for those who offer life enriching products & services like art products, online art courses, life coaching sessions, personal development courses/ products or any other wellness and creative products!

If you want to reach thousands of art and wellness enthusiasts through my newsletter, social media sites and website, this opportunity is for you! :)

The site gets between 75,000 to 100,000 monthly page views and approx 20,500 unique visitors per month (daily unique visitors range from 1500 – 2500). The site has over 33,200+ members (and tends to grow with 400 to 500 members each month). The newsletter currently has almost 37,000 subscribers. If you are interested in advertising, please contact Maddie on hello@willowing.org.

The Rainbow Unicorn Give Away will also be advertised on my social media sites (23,000 Facebook Biz Page/ 12,000 Personal FB page/ 16,500 instagram/ 9500 FB group members).

Thank you! <3 


 

You may also like:

  • Rainbow Unicorn Give Away #3 – Yay!

  • Tea and Cake with Gracie featuring Micki Wilde

  • Get 20% off! -> Ever After 2018 – Registration Now Open!

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Mixed media artist, teacher and author. I don’t see all IG msgs. For enq pls email hello@willowing.org - Join A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales:

Bookworm Girl - In late 2014, I created a painting that became one of my favourites of all time. Not only for its cute quirky bookish girl and delicious textures in the background but because I felt it captured the pure magic of getting utterly lost in a good book really well.

As a kid, I was a ‘bookworm girl’, I read and read and read to the point my parents felt I was ‘too secluded’ and ‘should go out more’! But! I had books and friends in books and stories and excitement and adventures and wisdom and joy and humour and laughter and intrigue and mystery. Books provided so much solace for me, especially as someone who felt like an outsider who didn’t belong anywhere.

I belonged in the books with the weirdos, the heroes, the vampires & witches (hello Anne Rice!), the artists, the outcasts, the lonely ones hiding in secret gardens, the wise and wild old crones that lived in the forests with deer and cats, the seekers, the fighters, and the fierce souls who wore their hearts on their sleeves and never gave up.

I continued reading pretty much throughout my life though when smartphones entered the scene; I too became entranced by apps, games and social media and reading books got interrupted by the wave of technology. Until about 2 years ago I decided that I was no longer allowed my phone in my bedroom at night (my god the endless doom scrolling on TikTok did me no good) and so I ended up back on kindle and now I read again and I’m so so happy about it. I love disappearing into fantasy and letting the stories carry me away from the stresses of every day life for a while!

If you’re also a book lover (or recovering bookworm -haha), what stories swept you away? Which books still live inside you? Tell me your favourites, I’m always hunting for the next world to disappear into. 💫

This is day 19 of a ‘gentle return to social media’ read more about this practice here: http://bit.ly/3IHFxir 🌱

PS: I painted this before certain things came to light about J.K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman, which is why their books feature here.

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Bookworm Girl - In late 2014, I created a painting that became one of my favourites of all time. Not only for its cute quirky bookish girl and delicious textures in the background but because I felt it captured the pure magic of getting utterly lost in a good book really well. 

As a kid, I was a ‘bookworm girl’, I read and read and read to the point my parents felt I was ‘too secluded’ and ‘should go out more’! But! I had books and friends in books and stories and excitement and adventures and wisdom and joy and humour and laughter and intrigue and mystery. Books provided so much solace for me, especially as someone who felt like an outsider who didn’t belong anywhere. 

I belonged in the books with the weirdos, the heroes, the vampires & witches (hello Anne Rice!), the artists, the outcasts, the lonely ones hiding in secret gardens, the wise and wild old crones that lived in the forests with deer and cats, the seekers, the fighters, and the fierce souls who wore their hearts on their sleeves and never gave up.

I continued reading pretty much throughout my life though when smartphones entered the scene; I too became entranced by apps, games and social media and reading books got interrupted by the wave of technology. Until about 2 years ago I decided that I was no longer allowed my phone in my bedroom at night (my god the endless doom scrolling on TikTok did me no good) and so I ended up back on kindle and now I read again and I’m so so happy about it. I love disappearing into fantasy and letting the stories carry me away from the stresses of every day life for a while! 

If you’re also a book lover (or recovering bookworm -haha), what stories swept you away? Which books still live inside you? Tell me your favourites, I’m always hunting for the next world to disappear into. 💫

This is day 19 of a ‘gentle return to social media’ read more about this practice here: http://bit.ly/3IHFxir 🌱

PS: I painted this before certain things came to light about J.K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman, which is why their books feature here.

I sold the previous version of this painting already but filmed a lesson for creating cuties for it so I have another version of this cute doggo visited by a butterfly. It’s for sale too. Original painting by me! 😊 Email me on hello@willowing.org if interested xxx ♥️♥️♥️ 🐶

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I sold the previous version of this painting already but filmed a lesson for creating cuties for it so I have another version of this cute doggo visited by a butterfly. It’s for sale too. Original painting by me! 😊 Email me on hello@willowing.org if interested xxx ♥️♥️♥️ 🐶

Great glittering goblins! The first 1000 places have already sold out! Thank you for all your love, enthusiasm and excitement in response to this magical new course!! I’m befuddled with joy and thrilled to have such an amazing response!
Now, if you had hoped to join for the lowest price ever, then don’t worry; we have opened up another 500 spaces at the super low price of £109 GBP. So please get in there quickly if you want to grab A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales at this hugely discounted price, as spaces are selling fast!

Do not dilly dally, my dear, adventure favours the nimble-footed!
A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales
is waiting for you!
🧚✨🦄
JOIN ‘A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales ’ NOW!:
https://bit.ly/AYOM-Tam

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Great glittering goblins! The first 1000 places have already sold out!  Thank you for all your love, enthusiasm and excitement in response to this magical new course!! I’m befuddled with joy and thrilled to have such an amazing response! 
Now, if you had hoped to join for the lowest price ever, then don’t worry; we have opened up another 500 spaces at the super low price of £109 GBP. So please get in there quickly if you want to grab A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales at this hugely discounted price, as spaces are selling fast!

Do not dilly dally, my dear, adventure favours the nimble-footed!
A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales
is waiting for you!
🧚✨🦄 
JOIN ‘A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales ’ NOW!: 
https://bit.ly/AYOM-Tam

✨ The Magic Begins! ✨

Friends, I am SO THRILLED! We’re finally opening the enchanted gates to a new amazing creative experience! ✨🙌✨

A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales is here! For a limited time, the first 1000 magical souls can join for just £109 (normally £179). Crazy good deal!! ♥️♥️♥️ Hurry though, these spaces usually go fast!!

Explore over 65+ mixed media art lessons, dive into fairy tales, myth, folklore and every day magic! Paint dragons, castles, and everyday enchantment; all with the support of 30+ beloved artists and a kind-hearted community.

Secure your spot and let’s create a year of magic & wonder together!

See you there!!

(Link in comments)

#AYearOfMagic #MixedMediaArt #ArtClass #EarlyBird

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✨ The Magic Begins! ✨ 

Friends, I am SO THRILLED! We’re finally opening the enchanted gates to a new amazing creative experience! ✨🙌✨ 

A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales is here! For a limited time, the first 1000 magical souls can join for just £109 (normally £179). Crazy good deal!! ♥️♥️♥️ Hurry though, these spaces usually go fast!! 

Explore over 65+ mixed media art lessons, dive into fairy tales, myth, folklore and every day magic! Paint dragons, castles, and everyday enchantment; all with the support of 30+ beloved artists and a kind-hearted community.

Secure your spot and let’s create a year of magic & wonder together!

See you there!! 

(Link in comments) 

#AYearOfMagic #MixedMediaArt #ArtClass #EarlyBird

Black. 🖤

After I finished Senior School, I went to an Art Academy in Amsterdam for a year. I was massively proud to have been accepted into two art academies in Holland because it was pretty hard to get into them, only about 30/ 40 people got selected out of 100nds of applicants each year. To be accepted into two Art Academies was a huge deal. Sadly the experience was not one I enjoyed much at all.

Coming from a vibrant, colourful senior school where art classes were uplifting and fun, I was shocked to discover that at the academy, it almost seemed sport to the teachers to ‘break down their students emotionally’, supposedly to make us better artists. Even the building itself was grey, devoid of any joy or colour. It was baffling; a place meant for creativity felt so grim and dark. 😔

The professors, too, each had their own peculiar ‘rules’. I remember being told things like, “Never use black in your paintings, it’s not a colour,” or, “Don’t use purple, I hate purple.” Looking back now, it’s almost comical; if every teacher had a forbidden colour, soon we’d be left with none! The arbitrary rules piled up, until it seemed like you could break one just by picking up a brush.

But the ‘never use black’ rule really stuck with me for years. I avoided it religiously, until this painting.

Yes, black can be a tricky colour. It’s bold, sometimes harsh, and can easily overpower a piece. But, when used with intention, I think black adds a beautiful sense of depth, contrast, and harmony. In this painting, I love how the black brings weight and grounding, making the other colours sing even brighter. ✨🙌✨

I remember painting this piece in 2016 and feeling a sense of freedom. I let myself be looser and wilder; not only did I dare to bring in black, I also used fluorescent pinks, which can be just as challenging! Suddenly, all those ‘forbidden’ elements became a celebration.

I left the Art Academy after a year, feeling confused and a bit lost. For a while, they made me believe maybe art wasn’t for me after all. How sad, isn’t it, when a place meant to nurture creativity ends up clipping your wings? ... (continues in comments)

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Black. 🖤

After I finished Senior School, I went to an Art Academy in Amsterdam for a year. I was massively proud to have been accepted into two art academies in Holland because it was pretty hard to get into them, only about 30/ 40 people got selected out of 100nds of applicants each year. To be accepted into two Art Academies was a huge deal. Sadly the experience was not one I enjoyed much at all. 

Coming from a vibrant, colourful senior school where art classes were uplifting and fun, I was shocked to discover that at the academy, it almost seemed sport to the teachers to ‘break down their students emotionally’, supposedly to make us better artists. Even the building itself was grey, devoid of any joy or colour. It was baffling; a place meant for creativity felt so grim and dark. 😔 

The professors, too, each had their own peculiar ‘rules’. I remember being told things like, “Never use black in your paintings, it’s not a colour,” or, “Don’t use purple, I hate purple.” Looking back now, it’s almost comical; if every teacher had a forbidden colour, soon we’d be left with none! The arbitrary rules piled up, until it seemed like you could break one just by picking up a brush.

But the ‘never use black’ rule really stuck with me for years. I avoided it religiously, until this painting.

Yes, black can be a tricky colour. It’s bold, sometimes harsh, and can easily overpower a piece. But, when used with intention, I think black adds a beautiful sense of depth, contrast, and harmony. In this painting, I love how the black brings weight and grounding, making the other colours sing even brighter. ✨🙌✨ 

I remember painting this piece in 2016 and feeling a sense of freedom. I let myself be looser and wilder; not only did I dare to bring in black, I also used fluorescent pinks, which can be just as challenging! Suddenly, all those ‘forbidden’ elements became a celebration.

I left the Art Academy after a year, feeling confused and a bit lost. For a while, they made me believe maybe art wasn’t for me after all. How sad, isn’t it, when a place meant to nurture creativity ends up clipping your wings? ... (continues in comments)
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