sshes suppoed to be three years old and as i go from one to the next i see where i went wrong this came allong way from poppits stage two yesterday . poppit is cynthia's nick name for her little grand daughter.. im not sure i guess i have to work on this more but im not sure robin said leave and start a new one might be the best idea..there are some cool things about cynthia didnt like it but then said it got better the more she looked at it but..i went wild with the drawing and my husband tells me i should trace it if i even did sketch it out first it would help but im bound and determine you just start painting with no prelimimary preparation....and now i want to paint emilys butterfly too plus i have earlier paintings in my box of minature that i dont really like if i had time and energy to go back and repaint 3/4th of them ..whew.. cynthia liked the first portrait because it was prettier and said she wishes this was prettier but im still undecided about just leaving this and starting over all the features of a little one are alot smaller this is helping me see.. where i deviated from the photo.. anyway..one day at a time