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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 EVERΒ Kaleidoscope 2024Β course and preppingΒ 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 outΒ 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: βWhen all is dark, consider you might be the light.β I used to be, the light, but Iβm so thin now, emotionally, that is. Iβm 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 Iβve almost fully faded. But I keep trying to see the sacred. To *find* the sacred and sometimes I do. I catch the divine sometimes; itβs 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 someoneβs face, in the lavish rawness of a singerβs 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 someoneβs 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 itβs an instant awakening. Sometimes Iβm attuned to the magic that is in every single moment, itβs as if each second is dripping with delectable manuka honey, magic everywhere, buzzing with intelligent electricity, and I am struck by a sense of βhow could I not see this all alongβ 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; βyou are the light, you are the lightβ. 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 funΒ vlog/ studio update/ paint an owl/ warbleΒ about things typeΒ videoΒ for you all the enjoy! π
I share a bit about my days, the art I’ve been creating, the books I LOVE reading and I answer the question:Β ‘Should You Pick An Art Style’?Β
WATCH THE NEW VIDEO HERE
And a little heads up:
- Expressive Soul PortraitsΒ has finished running live, but is now available as a standalone!
- Summer Sale:Β 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!
- Missed the Kaleidoscope Taster Week? You will be able toΒ enjoy a 5 day replayΒ early next week, yay!
- Kaleidoscope 2024Β – is the final ever Kaleidoscope I will run! Don’t miss out on it,Β join hereΒ if you haven’t already. β₯οΈβ₯οΈβ₯οΈ
Much love,
Tam β€οΈππ
PS.Β 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! π
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