"Mayley" 9x12 Oil pastel on watercolor paper

Now that my arm is healed from surgery I am doing a few small works to get back in the game.  This is my first oil pastel.  I used Sennilier oil pastels on watercolor paper.  I saw this picture on the internet and just had to paint it.  This is for a friend whose daughter is named Mayley.  She was very shy and when I spoke to her, she would hide behind her mother and peak one eye around. So I named it after her.

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