http:\/\/www.wishyouwellsonline.com\/<\/a><\/p>\nI was looking at this website last week and just was amazed at the talent of the photographer who is such a masterful artist in her trade.?? She has a certain look that??I have almost no hope of emulating but boy howdy I am going to try.?? This was my first attempt.?? Notice I did a side view only because I wasn’t ready to attempt the face yet.?? Jessica’s subjects look very surreal and dreamy and I wasn’t sure how I was going to accomplish that so I avoided it on my first go round.?? I don’t want to “copy” her anyhow – (and if she were to read that sentence she would probably say “Ha!?? As if!”?? hee hee) – but I would like to use her pictures to give me inspiration for my own dreamy storybook look.??????Here is a close up:<\/p>\n
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You can see more of the paint effect here.<\/p>\n
Already thinking through some other ideas to try.?? These projects take hours though so I have to limit myself.?? :)?? I want a gallery full of them though.?? One for virtual oils and one for “Live Loved” pictures.?? It isn’t that I am big on angels or fairy wings…but I DO love surreal and fantasy and dreamy and storybook.???? I put the verse on this picture because it seemed to belong there.?? God dreams big.?? What fun He must have had creating!???? I think of how Jesus delighted in the children and how He must smile at the way they celebrate life.?? Celebrating life is exactly why I started taking pictures in the first place.?? Guess that brings me full circle.???? I have been trying (as you well know) to get centered on the truth lately.?? I love that 4 Him song Center of the Mark that says “To love God…love people…that’s the center of the mark”.?? I want to feel like even my hobbies are a celebration of that and for me, photography and design are a reflection of my love for God and people.???? Pictures of dreamy, playful children symbolize living loved to me because the faith of little children places them centered in His lap.?? That’s where I want to be.?? This collection – as I hope to build it – will be a reminder of that.<\/p>\n
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What do you think?<\/p>\n
Heidi have I been busy while you’ve been offline or what?????<\/em>??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WOW did I have fun with this!!!!!!?? I am going to call this my “Live Loved” collection because I want to make a lot more of them but they are quite time consumming.?????? My Inspiration:?? http:\/\/www.wishyouwellsonline.com\/ I was looking at this website last week and just was amazed at the talent of the photographer who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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