My Guest Artist

I just thought I would share these two photos with the world! This is my cousin Steven, he is 28 years old, and he his Autistic. I asked him to help me decorate my sons's room by drawing me a picture of something sporty. He reluctantly agreed, because he knew he would have to get in my car and come over to my house by himself. I told him he would be drawing on the wall instead of paper, he thought for a whil before finally replying and said, "that is crazy talk, who would draw on the wall?" I told him, well you will! He was a little nervous, We went to the store and I had him pick out paint colors, brushes, and pencils ( I have given him complete free will at this point), he picked out several colors, and I was really curious about what he had in mind, but it helped him relax a little by giving him the reigns over the project. We went home, and I cut out some strips of paper, about how big I wanted the drawing and kind of made a paper frame on the wall, so he could visualize how big it should be. He drew this free hand, in about 15 minutes flat, he had an idea in his head about what he was gonna do, and here it came out on my wall. We love it! He really wanted to paint the jersey blue, but my boy disagreed, he told him to please paint it green, Steven said, "why would I want to do that for?" We went through a big spill about remember your sister cheered for Burley, she wore lots of green, we want this player to be a player your sister can cheer for..... He finally said okay. He came up with this on his own,I am so thankful, Braeden's Jersey in on the other wall hanging, and it's number is one, I think that is where he came up with the number for the shirt, I think? Any way sorry for the long spill but I thought you all would be as impressed as I am.