Broken Doll

This is the kind of thing I want to paint more often. A finished piece would be preferable, but the problem with still lives is that if you paint them on the dining room table they have a tendency to be moved. I wish I could remember the feeling I had, staring at the doll while I was painting this. I can't describe it now, but there's something sad about seeing an old broken doll from your childhood at an age when you're supposed to have grown up.