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July 02, 2024

Should You Pick An Art Style? ๐Ÿค”

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

Should You Pick An Art Style? ๐Ÿค”

Hello Creative Friend,

Hey ho there fellow creative travellers! How are you hanging in there over there? I hope you’re ok and that you are finding moments of joy and creativity in your days and that you take time for breathing and sitting still.

I’ve been busy preparing the final EVER Kaleidoscope 2024 course and prepping a little trip to Scotland with the fam while reminding myself to breathe and sit still for some moments in my days too. Even with all this chaos going on, it’s important, if possible, to take moments for grounding and centring. Not always easy to do but it’s keeping me going, that and spreading kindness, painting my heart out and lately; sending contemplative poetic pieces of writing into the world.

I wrote this on my facebook last week:

“I try.

I keep trying to see the sacred in everything but shadows blur my vision. She said: โ€œWhen all is dark, consider you might be the light.โ€

I used to be, the light, but Iโ€™m so thin now, emotionally, that is. Iโ€™m thinned out by carrying the weight of the world, the weight of the shadows, the weight of myself; too thin to hold it, old bones about to crack, wispy like mycelium but untethered, maybe candy floss in the wind, is the better description, easily melted by a few drops of water, ghostly, transparent. I fear Iโ€™ve almost fully faded.

But I keep trying to see the sacred. To *find* the sacred and sometimes I do.

I catch the divine sometimes; itโ€™s on my tongue in a word I speak, or in a paragraph of a book which makes me cry uncontrollably, in a crinkly smile wrinkle on someoneโ€™s face, in the lavish rawness of a singerโ€™s voice, in a soft breeze that kisses my cheek, in mysterious concepts like string theory, in silver worn around wrists, in the intricacy of eyelashes, in orange & teal watercolour paint, in someoneโ€™s random act of kindness, in loyalty, in my dog who will not give up on trying to get me to pet her furry head, her body language so comical itโ€™s an instant awakening.

Sometimes Iโ€™m attuned to the magic that is in every single moment, itโ€™s as if each second is dripping with delectable manuka honey, magic everywhere, buzzing with intelligent electricity, and I am struck by a sense of โ€˜how could I not see this all alongโ€™ and it elicits a chaotic, explosive and colourful galaxy of euphoric emotions in me. It suddenly all makes sense, the profound everything of it all.

And finally, when the shadows come again, and I can feel myself sinking, there is that whisper; โ€œyou are the light, you are the lightโ€. And the shadows? They are divine too.”

– Tamara Laporte

And I painted this owl to go with the piece of writing:

Both were very cathartic to create!

And because I’ve not been on youtube for a while, I made another rambly but fun vlog/ studio update/ paint an owl/ warble about things type video for you all the enjoy! ๐Ÿ˜œ

I share a bit about my days, the art I’ve been creating, the books I LOVE reading and I answer the question: ‘Should You Pick An Art Style’? 

WATCH THE NEW VIDEO HERE


And a little heads up:

  1. Expressive Soul Portraits has finished running live, but is now available as a standalone!
  2. Summer Sale: if you wait until August 9th, you can buy Expressive Soul Portraits at a discounted price and many other good deals will be included in this sale too!
  3. Missed the Kaleidoscope Taster Week? You will be able to enjoy a 5 day replay early next week, yay!
  4. Kaleidoscope 2024 – is the final ever Kaleidoscope I will run! Don’t miss out on it, join here if you haven’t already. โ™ฅ๏ธโ™ฅ๏ธโ™ฅ๏ธ

Much love,
Tam โค๏ธ๐ŸŒŸ๐Ÿ’•

PS. If you have a question for me you’d like answered in one of my youtube videos, pls leave me a comment or simply hit reply on this email and I’ll try to answer it in the next video! ๐Ÿ˜Š

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It was so fun getting all your ideas for my new course โ€˜Creating Cutiesโ€™. You all had SUCH amazing ideas, itโ€™s REALLY hard to choose!! It even made me think I could create SO many โ€˜cutiesโ€™, maybe I could create a course that is like subscription based and I release one โ€˜cutieโ€™ lesson per month. Think it would be so fun! That said, not sure if I have the time, but there were so many cool ideas that you all had, I could fill up lots of courses with the ideas! ๐Ÿ˜Š In any case, one of the animal that got a lot of votes was the quirky and wonderful AXOLOTL! Sooooo he made it to the course!! Check out this SUPER CUTIE!! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜ I love him so much!!

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It was so fun getting all your ideas for my new course โ€˜Creating Cutiesโ€™. You all had SUCH amazing ideas, itโ€™s REALLY hard to choose!! It even made me think I could create SO many โ€˜cutiesโ€™, maybe I could create a course that is like subscription based and I release one โ€˜cutieโ€™ lesson per month. Think it would be so fun! That said, not sure if I have the time, but there were so many cool ideas that you all had, I could fill up lots of courses with the ideas! ๐Ÿ˜Š In any case, one of the animal that got a lot of votes was the quirky and wonderful AXOLOTL! Sooooo he made it to the course!! Check out this SUPER CUTIE!! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜ I love him so much!!

Been working on this happy dolphins painting. ๐Ÿ˜Š ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿ’•

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Been working on this happy dolphins painting. ๐Ÿ˜Š ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿ’•

Did you know I ADORE Highland cows?! Was high (ha) time that I painted one. Particularly one as cute as this! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

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Did you know I ADORE Highland cows?! Was high (ha) time that I painted one. Particularly one as cute as this! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

The wonderful Jennifer ( @therapistsanctuary ) and I filmed another episode of `Creative Sanctuary`. This one is all about `Shadow Work`. ๐Ÿ˜Š Come hang out with us for a bit and let us know what you think? โ™ฅ๏ธโ™ฅ๏ธโ™ฅ๏ธ The video is now live! Link to my channel in my linktree on my profile/ bio. โ™ฅ๏ธโ™ฅ๏ธโ™ฅ๏ธ Or go here: https://youtu.be/Sce7V9gDMGQ?si=P9wRMQNlpy_7JwOP

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The wonderful Jennifer ( @therapistsanctuary ) and I filmed another episode of 'Creative Sanctuary'. This one is all about 'Shadow Work'. ๐Ÿ˜Š Come hang out with us for a bit and let us know what you think? โ™ฅ๏ธโ™ฅ๏ธโ™ฅ๏ธ The video is now live! Link to my channel in my linktree on my profile/ bio. โ™ฅ๏ธโ™ฅ๏ธโ™ฅ๏ธ Or go here: https://youtu.be/Sce7V9gDMGQ?si=P9wRMQNlpy_7JwOP

This little cutie on a swing just popped up on my memories and I love the mixed media textures and her cutie little face in this so much! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜ I painted this 6 years ago.

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This little cutie on a swing just popped up on my memories and I love the mixed media textures and her cutie little face in this so much! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜ I painted this 6 years ago.
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