"George's Angel" (from "The All About Me" painting challenge)

"George's Angel"

This painting challenge through the Daily Paintworks in "The All About Me" challenge was not one of the easiest of me to paint - especially a portait in watercolor. It was also very  time-consuming  because I wanted to get this picture "right" for George for our twenty-seventh wedding anniversary especially when it came to copying from a very classic painting of me.

This was me while wearing a wedding dress on Saturday, June 9, 1984.  That dress was the exact style of wedding dress that I really wanted to wear at my wedding.  Oddly enough, a long-time friend as well a wife of one of George's cousin offered to lend me her wedding dress.  Lo and behold, when I came by and picked up her wedding dress, I saw that dress was the same style that I dreamed about to wear.  I can really say that I talked about a real "blessing".  Yes, that dress, too, fit perfectly - no fittings of anykind which I can sing "Glory Hallelujah".

 This picture was taken shortly before I married to a very special man named George who often calls me "Angel".  While I was posing for my pre-wedding pictures, I was thinking and mesmurizing about the wedding along with thinking about all of the anticipation of walking down that aisle with my father as he was going to "give" his "baby daughter" away to George.  This is still a favorite picture of myself  of me standing near a fountain in the courtyard of the same church where I mainly grew up during my childhood, teen, and most of my college years along with the rest of my siblings.  My wedding color was dark pink which was almost like red - which could be like a deep pink Crepe Myrtle or...kinda like a "Tickle Me Elmo" shade of dark pink.  all of the bride's maids except fot the flower girl wore the same shade of dark pink long dresses   However, the groom's men, best man, ring-bearer, and not to forget, my father all wore black tuxedos with white shirts and bow ties.

That may have been a very brief moment in my life but it as well a very classic moment that makes it so special enough to be captured in a photograph, and then later into a painting.  This picture's title is the reason why I call it "George's angel" mainly because he still calls me "Angel".

Title: "George's Angel"

Media:  Watercolor on grasscloth backing

Size:  6" W X 10" H

Price:  Please contact me about the price through e-mail @ marycaikens@gmail.com