Painting two - In the Backyard

This was painted from an old family photo of me and my sister playing in the backyard. I was looking at the idea of family leisure time spent together. I showed this painting for my critique in week 5, and the general feeling I got from the feedback was that this is quite a dark/ sinster depiction of fun in the sun, an idea which has been used a lot so I didn't really like this reading. The use of a lot of black is probably what contributed the most to this reading, so in the painting I am working on now I have eliminated using black to see if this changes things.