The assignment was to either collaborate with a child or an animal on an art work.  I've tortured my cat enough as it is, so I chose children.

Ken (my husband) is the manager of the North Y Youth Centre so I visited him and got some help by 24 of the kids there.

I took individual kids between the ages of 2 and 16 into an office.  I handed them a sheet of water-colour paper and a black fine tip marker.  I then described a picture to them.

"There is a man and a woman at a table.  The woman has curly hair and is knitting.  The man has glasses and is reading the newspaper.  There's a cat.  And there's a picture on the wall."

I got them to draw exactly that and gave them no further directions.  I didn't let them see anybody but their own pictures to avoid any outside inspiration.

I also did my own version of the picture in water-colour.  I scanned my picture and printed it directly on top of the kids drawings.