Turq du Soleil: February 2015

During the harsh winter months, it can be quite hard to stay positive. I always get the winter blues...they're so uncalled for, I have so many reasons to be joyful. One perk, however, is that my creative juices start to work in overdrive to compensate for the blues. Thankfully, once those juices start to flow there is no stopping them.

So far I've only taken two photoshoots with paint/chalk. The first, is of my very best friend. I was inspired by a quote that read, "If the words you spoke appeared on your skin, would you still be beautiful?". I wanted to express that quote in my own words (which ended up being French words...lol), and this was the result.

While thinking on that quote I started to wonder what God's definition of true beauty was & if the quote was anything close to what He said about beauty. I found that God's definition of true beauty is, "Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle & quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight." (1 Peter 3:4) He looks at our hearts & the reasoning behind our actions. "But the Lord said to Samuel, 'Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man look at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.'"

The second photoshoot was quite impromptu but inspired by the first photoshoot. My friends wanted a picture like the above. I was a bit nervous in trying to recreate it, scared she wouldn't like it or worse, it not turn out at all. It ended up coming out very nicely, I was pleasantly surprised & she loved it (worrying is a waste of time).