{"id":856,"date":"2009-01-05T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=856"},"modified":"2012-02-27T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T22:43:34","slug":"excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"Excited!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/KarsynBee1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"946\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I grow up, I want to paint dreamy storybook pictures that celebrate little children living loved.?? Often times I will have ideas in my head but they just don&#8217;t pan out the way I pictured.?? THIS TIME however, my end result was just exactly what I wanted.?? It came alive as I painted and took on a story of its own.???? My brother promised me at lunch today that he was going to print a large canvas of this &#8211; I really need to look at it on a wall.?? :).???? My little Karsyn is so so beautiful and she was the perfect little model that I needed for this dreamy paint.?? Here is a closeup:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/KarsynBee3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"446\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are the original pictures I painted and blended together:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/KarsynBee2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"571\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This one was a free stock photograph that I saved some time ago.?? Just knew I would need it for something someday.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/Dreamstime.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"439\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This project took me four to five hours.?? I stayed up until 2:00 AM on New Year&#8217;s Eve to finish it.?? Check back tomorrow to see my lil&#8217; cowboy.<\/p>\n<p>Today school starts back up so back to my regular routine which likely won&#8217;t leave room for much painting but I am going to try to commit to a couple a month so I can keep improving my skills at this.?? I love projects that have endless possibilities.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I grow up, I want to paint dreamy storybook pictures that celebrate little children living loved.?? Often times I will have ideas in my head but they just don&#8217;t pan out the way I pictured.?? THIS TIME however, my end result was just exactly what I wanted.?? It came alive as I painted and [&hellip;]<\/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":[55,65],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries","category-paintings","tag-ll-paintings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","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=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4838,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/4838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}