Seven year old girl with amazing artistic talent

During the recent February half term break, I was asked by a friend, if one of Cable the Crow's fans, (who has an immense love of art), could meet with me. Without hesitation, I agreed to the request and sure enough, I was dazzled by her amazing talent, and her phenomenal manners; she was a 7-year-old angel!
So, on this surprisingly sunny afternoon, we ate lunch, healthy pizza… (not so sure about that), sandwiches, sausage rolls, (no one was vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian or had any known allergies); so, we also ate (my otherwise forbidden), mini cakes…yum, yum, yum and drank Ribena; the grown-ups drank coffee.
After our bellies were nice and full, the 7-year-old angel and I sat at our ‘dining /come everything room table,’ to commence some art.
Now from my own recollection of experience, I learned to use the medium of markers, by first practising with cool grey markers, acquiring skills of blending, gradation, in other words-tonal values. I had better mention, for those of you who are not au-fait with markers- they are fundamentally posh felt tips. With my own recollection in mind, I set the 7-year-old angel a few tasks, with a few cool grey markers and a marker pad. Again, for those who don’t know; it is imperative to work on the correct paper…there are many varieties of paper, but for markers, a marker pad is a must.
The 7-year-old angel was a dream to teach; she worked arduously upon every task that I set her. I demonstrated, and she emulated. After a good hour and a half, she was most definitely ready to put into practice what she had learnt. She drew Cable the Crow in his pj’s, from the illustration that I had drawn for the front cover of my book. In fact, I liked her version better than mine! It had an almost ‘Quentin Blake’ style, but you can judge for yourself from the pictures I have uploaded. Markers in hand, techniques stored in memory bank, the 7 year old angel began her creation, whilst we adults, slurped more coffee and nibbled naughty ‘choccy,’ biscuits.
Finally, the masterpiece was ready for exhibiting to the myself and the grown-up audience. We stood back in amazement; what a truly fantastic piece of artwork! Any art and design teacher will be lucky to teach this 7-year-old angel.
By now the early evening was drawing in and we had just enough time for my reading to her the story of: ‘Cable the Crow.’ Whilst I read from her book, she changed pages from the PowerPoint on my laptop. What a thoroughly rewarding afternoon; I got to do what I love to do best: art, creating, teaching and drama- through my characters voices during story telling. Conclusively, I was lucky enough to meet a 7-year-old angel with amazing artistic talent. If you don’t believe me, take a look at her work in the pictures that I have uploaded.

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