This was one of those paintings I thought I could do in a relatively short time.  Well, you can see it has been awhile since I posted, so quick was not meant to be.  It was great fun to do, but what was I thinking with all those circles?!  It was a first for using a black primed canvas (which I loved!) and for doing a "recent" figurative piece of my kids.  I am usually motivated by drawing my kids when they were young, but when I saw this little girl next to my teenage daughter, I realized that I draw them young because I still think of them as young.  I have a hard time believing my daughter is a teenager (although I do have the gray hair to prove it).  I learned alot with this piece (try black primed canvas more but NO more circles!!) and that is very important to me as I want to improve with composition and painting skills each time.