- Don't do it like that. First mark the big things. Sketch the whole thing, think of how do all the flowers together look like, and then you'll go to smaller things, to details and petals.

- Like this?

- It's good. It's better to use straight lines when you mark the shape. It is easier to make a mistake with curved than with straight lines. Imagine the shape you see as a couple of straight lines and draw them. Later you will smooth and curve those lines if needed. It is most important to recognize and properly draw the angles, the way in which the two straight lines meet in some corner of the shape that you draw.

- Uncle, are we going to draw today?

- I'm not sure. No sun today. I don't like drawing when it's cloudy. If it comes out, then maybe we will. But, tell me, what do you want for lunch?

- Pasta! Bolognese!

- Oh, come on, what pasta, what bolognese, I made it for you just a day ago.

- And it was really great!

- Well, you cannot eat it all the time. Besides, you are after all MY nephews, it cannot be the same all the time. It cannot be safe all the time. Today we could make, say, marinated long cuts of turkey breasts, a bit fried and then finished in a sauce with a lot of curry, with zucchini, tomatoes and aubergines all served with basmati rice?

- Aaaa ... I don't know. Is it going to be nice?

- Sure it will, you'll see, even better than pasta.

- OK then.

- Let's go to the garden and see whether there is some nice aubergine or zucchini.

- Do you have some paper? You know, a nice one, for watercolors?

- We don't have it any more.

- OK. I have some for you. Here they are. I also have nice brushes. I brought you a nice one last time, right Ivor? You have it? Good. We still need paper napkins, some water and some plastic thing for you so that you can prepare your colors on it. Some lid from the icecream box or something? Katja, you go and see whether there is something like that in the house. I'll go and bring the sunshade so that we don't get sunburned.

- What will we do today?

- Today we'll do sunflowers. Look how beautiful and happy they are! Chubby!

- You should do the first coat of paint always with a very mild color. With a lot of water. That's how you'll get the brightest tone. Darker tones you'll get later, in repeated coatings of the same surface.

- Is this good?

- It's not. You need more water.

- Aha. And how did you made the sky? So that it's darker up there and lower down here?

- First you go over the upper part of the paper with the brush soaked in the paint, then quickly wash it and soak the lower part with the pure water. But you have to do it quickly. While the color is still flowing. The color will then spread slowly from up there down. And you can also turn the paper around so that you guide the color as it spreads around. Look.

- Aaaaaaa.