Joseph, The Reluctant Sitter!

I spent Saturday looking after my daughter Janet’s two boys with the help of my wife.

I had promised Joseph, the eldest (6yrs), that we would do some painting. We chose a big leaf from the Horse-Chestnut Tree while out walking and eagerly set-up a still-life in the kitchen. Unfortunately I couldn’t find my daughter’s good quality watercolour paper (where do you keep it Janet?) so we had to use an A4 sheet of paper from the printer. It cockled on the application of water and was a disaster. So Joseph screwed his up and threw it in the bin. “What shall we do next Gramps” Says He. “I will draw you if you like” says I. “OK” So with my trusty HB pencil and sketch book I started. One minute of sketching, with Joseph looking all around him, he expressed the view “This is boring” and promptly left the kitchen to join his brother Henry and Nana watching TV. So I decided to finish the sketch, which is shown here, using my powers of recall. Janet looked at it later and kindly commented that ‘ he looks a bit older’. Well what can I say, my powers of recall evidently are not as good as I think they are!

A pleasant little sketch anyway – and I avoided half an hour of watching children’s television!

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