I saw this painting done by my nephew, who is 5 years old and was really amazed at the flow of the colors. He has done it with a real smoothness withholding the essence of the drawing. He has painted himself and his little sister flying kites.

His painting reminds me of my days when I was little. I too painted (you can say tried to paint) with watercolors many times. But never came even close to his painting. Once I drew a hut and my mother thought it looked like an inverted basket! Another time I drew scenery and she said it looked like a cat and mouse race. I would get very disappointed at her mundane response. I would look at her with my wide-open eyes with a big question like,” What?! Can’t you make out what I have depicted in my painting”?

But, after seeing my nephew’s painting now, I realize that my mother reactions were genuine. Definitely my brush strokes would be haywire all over the paper, randomly, with no consistency and of course must have been unimpressive to her.

- Shephali

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