In March of 2006, I proposed to my fiancee, Amanda, while we were visiting Granada, Spain for a week with our friends Rick and Sena. Amanda had lived in Granada for three months the year before, so it seemed like the perfect place to ask her to marry me. On the 5th day we took a bus to a small coastal town called Nerja. After climbing down to the beach we enjoyed a lunch of cheese and bread and honey rum, and spent the rest of the day swimming through caves.
During one of our swimming breaks, I took a photo of Amanda as she gave me the biggest grin I think I have ever seen. Her smile just radiated pure bliss.
In December, I decided that it was time to transfer that "pure bliss" to canvas, and started working on her portrait. I painted her in the sunniest colors I could make, and put the waves of the water where the sky should be. I titled it "La Sonrisa", which means "the smile" in Spanish.
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