A 'social document' my lecturer called it. I was stuck for ideas to paint so decided to go with; my life. My kids to start with.

I wanted to do big imposing pictures of situations where my children exhibit challenging behaviour... When the main experience of motherhood is not enjoyment and adoration.

In my previous attempts the facial expressions were a bit lame, so this one was mainly to see if I could get some more emotion into the face. Tried the four in one approach as well to depict a few different stages her protesting.

Looks like she is being tortured, but the reason for this wobbly was that her brother tried to give her a kiss; she didn't like the idea.