”Loving the Monster” Tamara Laporte – Life Book 2019 · 2019-06-02 · ”Loving the Monster” with Tamara Laporte – Life Book 2019 Supplies used this session Please note,

”Loving the Monster” with Tamara Laporte – Life Book 2019

Willowing Arts Ltd – 2019 – www.willowing.org


Hello fabulous creative friend!

Today we are going to honour our stories throughworking with the 7 story archetypes.

Creatively we'll work on a side profle portrait.

I hope you enjoy it!

Much loveTam x



Supplies used this sessionPlease note, below are the supplies I used, but you can substitute the supplies if and where needed if you don't have what I've used.

1 Sheet of hotpressed watercolour paper (140lbs) - (I used 16 x 12” but you can use 12 x 9” if you prefer)

Graphite pencil (I like the graphgear 1000 by pentel 2b in lead, 0.9 width, but any graphite pencil will do.

Water-soluble Crayons – Neocolor II Caran D'ache (salmon) Acrylics in salmon colour + optionally other colours for background Tombow or Aqua Markers Watercolour paints Posca pens black and white (or other waterproof black/ white pens) Colour pencils in darker colours like purples/ dark red/ dark brown/ grey Optional: Stabilo all pencil and blending stump Ink Sprays with stencils Colour pencils Optional: arteza brush marker



The 7 story archetypesToday we are going to 'honour our story'. You can work with an experience you feel you want to give special attention today (eg: an event or experience in your life that wasn't properly processed/ needs some love) or, another way to honour your story today is to look at the 7 story archetypes and see if you recognise any of these story 'plots' as one that you fnd yourself dealing with your life.

It could be that you resonate/ recognise one or more.

Below I've explained what the story archetypes are, see if any of them resonate for you.

The 7 story archetypes are:

• Overcoming the Monster.• Rags to Riches.• The Quest.• Voyage and Return.• Comedy.• Tragedy.• Rebirth.

Overcoming the MonsterDefnition: The protagonist sets out to defeat an antagonistic force (often evil) which threatens the protagonist and/or protagonist's homeland.

Examples: Perseus, Theseus, Beowulf, Dracula, The War of the Worlds, Nicholas Nickleby, The Guns of Navarone, Seven Samurai (and its Western remake The Magnifcent Seven), James Bond, Star Wars.

In the world this can relate to: fghting addiction/ a bad situation with a boss/ overcoming illness or major other struggles



Rags to RichesDefnition: The poor protagonist acquires power, wealth, and/or a mate, loses it all and gains it back, growing as a person as a result.

Examples: Cinderella, Aladdin, Jane Eyre, A Little Princess, Great Expectations, David Copperfeld, The Prince and the Pauper, Brewster's Millions.

In the world this can relate to: having a talent and using this to become successful, applicable to artists, photographers, musicians.

The QuestDefnition: The protagonist and companions set out to acquire an important object or to get to a location. They face temptations and other obstacles along the way.

Examples: The Odyssey, The Pilgrim’s Progress, The Lord Of The Rings, King Solomon's Mines, Six of Crows, Watership Down, Lightning Thief, Apocalypse Now.

In the world this can relate to: people who are trying to create either a business or other venture (maybe a school or non-proft) and encounter many challenges on the way to get there. They have to overcome several odds to get there.

Voyage and ReturnDefnition: The protagonist goes to a strange land and, after overcoming the threats it poses to them, they return with experience.

Examples: Ramayana, Alice in Wonderland, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Orpheus, The Time Machine, Peter Rabbit, The Hobbit, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Mad Max: Fury Road, Brideshead Revisited, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Gone with the Wind, The Third Man.

In the world this can relate to: people who are end up in an unfamiliar world and grow/ learn through the experiences and challenges that unfamiliar worlds bring with them. This can both be a real physical world, or perhaps it's also a symbolic unfamiliar world.



ComedyDefnition: Light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion.[3] Booker makes sure to stress that comedy is more than humor. It refers to a pattern where the confict becomes more and more confusing, but is at last made plain in a single clarifying event. The majority of romance flms fall into this category.

Examples: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Bridget Jones's Diary, Music and Lyrics, Sliding Doors, Four Weddings and a Funeral.

In the world this can relate to: people who are dealing with confusing (sometimes somewhat comical) challenges on their path to achieving something.

TragedyDefnition: The protagonist's character faw or great mistake which is their undoing. Their unfortunate end evokes pity at their folly and the fall of a fundamentally good character.

Examples: Macbeth, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Carmen, Bonnie and Clyde, Jules et Jim, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, John Dillinger, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar.

In the world this can relate to: people who are going through very diffcult and painful situations such as divorce/ grief/ losing loved ones/ loss of job.

RebirthDefnition: An event forces the main character to change their ways and often becomes a better person.

Examples: "The Frog Prince", "Beauty and the Beast", The Snow Queen, A Christmas Carol, The Secret Garden, Peer Gynt, Groundhog Day.

In the world this can relate to: people who have needed to change their ways to improvethe quality of their lives/ other people's lives or business. Before you begin, you may want



Drawing a side profle face





I chose to work with the 'overcoming the monster' archetype and wanted to create a painting that showed a girl holding up a hand toward 'the monster' but her hand is both a 'stop' sign and a 'welcome hello' while hearts/ love comes out of her hand.

You may choose to work with a different archetype and create a completely different scene, or perhaps you want to create a similar scene.

Steps to shadingThere are many ways that one can shade a face. It all depends on where you assume the light is coming from. In this painting I assume the light comes from the left.



Colours & Supplies I like using for shading a light-skinned face:

I don't always use the same colours, but mostly I tend to go to the following colours & supplies:

Skin tone supplies and colours I used (substitute with different brands and colours where needed,I'm only listing exactly what I used in case you are curious):

• Caran D'ache Neocolour II watersoluble Crayons / NeoArt Pastel, in the following colours: salmon + fesh tone + orange (oranges gives a 'tanned' look on a caucasian skin tone

• Ceramcoat (acrylics): Santa's Flesh• Watercolour paints with indigos/ purples/ reds for darker shading • Colour Pencils in violet, purples, dark reds, dark browns (the brand I use are

prismacolor and luminance (caran d'ache) • For facial features like eyes and mouth: Tombow Markers/ Ecoline Inks• For fne details: Black marker with fne tip: posca or signo-uniball/ White marker with fne

tip: posca or signo-uniball

For a darker skin tone I tend to start with an ochre and build up the shading with oranges, browns, reds and indigos.

Shading Tip: I like using the colours I use in the eyes, mouth and surrounding fowers as my shading colours, because we are working non-realistically this works quite well. You'll see me shade with greens, blues, purples, browns, reds and oranges! :)

However, my favourite colours to use for shading are shades of the original skin tone I started with combined with blues, indigos and purples. For extra drama I often use black too, to enhance and deepen shadow and contrast.





Hair & other elementsFor her hair I started off with tombow markers to create colourful strands of her. Later on Ichange her hair quite a bit.



For the background I wanted her facing a dark night sky representing 'the monster', but I still wanted a kind of beauty 'in the monster' too. So I started by spraying through a stencil with a purple ink.

I then used indigos/ dark blues and black/ greys in the background. I applied my brushstrokes in a rough/ not unifed way to give the impression of a 'stormy' / 'troubled' dark night sky.



To give the impression of darkness and diffculties in the night sky (again representing 'the monster' symbolically) I added 'jagged' shapes and stormy looking twirls and shards in black pen over the previous dark layer.

With acrylics I painted hearts coming out of the hand, to represent 'meeting the monster' with compassion and kindness.



Final touches were my usual doodles.

I had some trouble with the hair which ended up being painted over with acrylics.



And here is the fnal page:

And here some more detail shots:





I hope you enjoyed the session today! I look forward to seeing your beautiful paintings!

Can't wait to see what you do!

Tamxoxox

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”Loving the Monster” Tamara Laporte – Life Book 2019 · 2019-06-02 · ”Loving the Monster” with Tamara Laporte – Life Book 2019 Supplies used this session Please note,