Creative kids x 4

When I think of my four kids, the best time in my life with them was when they were teenagers. So many parents say raising teenagers is tough. Yes, I agree, it is tough, but it is also the most joyful.

Fortunately for me, I had four kids. The elder three were more or less the same age. They went to the same school. They knew each other’s friends. They shared clothes when they could. My kids were a bunch on their own. They had a great fraternity among them. They were also a happy lot. I took a lot of smirkful joy seeing them enjoying themselves in their youthful bluster. But being a dad, I had to keep some appearance. But today, when I think of that period, I feel nostalgic.

Today, in August 2022, during a train ride, I retrieved four portraits taken around 2006 and treated them on sketching software on my iPad. This is the result.

It is a tribute to my four kids, two of them parents of their own, now in 2022, some 16 years after I took these images. Their families, my brood now total twelve, and they are a fraternity of their own here in Australia — an emerging force.

I am proud of them.

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