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This year we celebrated my granddaughter, Annik’s birthday early, and as I have said before, every year I give my grandchildren on their birthdays each a 5”x8” over a 100 page sketchbook that I fill with watercolor, ink, graphite oil pastels and crayons, random sketches to look at like a picture book. This year for Annik my 8 year-old granddaughter besides this customary sketchbook I gave her a large sketchbook for her to do her own artwork and also a box of expressionist oil pastels. She already has a good watercolor box and brushes that I gave her last year. For inspiration, this year, in addition to her filled up sketchbook I gave her a few separate 7x10 watercolor sketches with or without added oil pastel. I show three of those here.