Even though the artwork you've shown us of the audience so far was unequivocally great in quality(not to mention kaleidoscopic in themes, Copernican in inventiveness and cornucopian in numbers), this piece does seem to be worthy of a tour de force status. Not only is this picture a professional-level portrait that is both vivaciously expressive and technically respectable, but it also manages to have become that with nothing but real media at your disposal. The the way light shines in the little guy's hair and highlights the facial topography is absolutely astounding for a piece that is neither a painting nor a digital layered cake, and fit right in with the boy's bright disposition; the shades of blush are unbelievable for the same reason, since even the otherwise competent watercolour artists are prone to making the humans they depict resemble something out of a butcher shop; even the collar of the shirt deserves a good deal of begrudgingly deferential nodding and "damn, the man really can throw it down with the best of 'em..."-styled pursing of lips.

Even with the earlier praise of your visual works in mind, I'd still posit that this portrait stands a few tiers of refinement above the rest, a Rockwellian, All-American, apple-pie-and-Colt -M1911, wholesome self-contained masterpiece. That disparity is probably owed to some embarrassingly non-academic external factor like pure fatherly love or something hokey like that.

...And it is upstanding uploads like this that makes one really appreciate the wisdom of compartmentalizing one's cumulative body of work into isolated, context-tight files.

Anyway, may this pagan-originated, Christian-coopted and secularly marketed holiday bring much cheer to your family !

Thank you! I was aiming for something vaguely Rockwellian, actually, so I'm glad you called that out! Tousle-headed five-year-olds tend to lean that way anyway while they still have cherubic cheeks, but using colored pencils doesn't make that any easier. What they do, however, is make a picture hanging on the wall look much more respectable than a color print-out from kinkos, or at least that's what I've seen!