About this item
Inspired by Tamara Laporte's art classes, Create Your Life Book presents 18 step-by-step projects that help you explore and work through issues surrounding creative fulfillment. 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. Each themed chapter presents 4 to 5 two-part projects: First you will explore a common issue that hampers creativity and/or positive self-worth. The second portion is a step-by-step mixed-media art project specially designed to help you work through that issue. There are also project outlines which have been contributed by Tamara's guest teachers: Roxanne Coble, Andrea Gomoll, Alena Hennessy, Mystele Kirkeeng, Ivy Newport, and Effy Wild, each of whom are noted mixed-media artists in their own right.
About the Author
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 own 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 16,500 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 over 34,000 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 29,000 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 and Gizmo the dog.
