Render a loose ink-and-watercolor field sketch: searching broken contours establish structure while separate transparent washes connect selected areas. Let some secondary wash edges pass beyond or stop short of lines; identifying contours and big patches stay coherent. Resemblance sits in big shapes, silhouette and large washes; below fingertip scale everything is searching contours and edges. Subjects may be re-posed to suit the style. Eyes and nose, if present, are ink-and-wash marks with one ink highlight. Texture is visible everywhere. No automatic city scenery, photographic patches, crisp strands or glossy eye reflections. An adult busker plays banjo with a woven flag strap and canton at the shoulder on a sunny street corner. A hat for coins sits nearby with no readable signs while a pigeon guards the takings. No lettering.
Light: loose sunny wash; palette of banjo amber, strap red and pavement grey; easy, wry, bright.
Square 1:1 frame, centred composition with breathing room on all sides. The standard flag shows exactly thirteen horizontal stripes starting and ending with red and a blue canton with star rows in the upper hoist corner; any interpretive flag stays recognisable and is never torn, burned, defaced or on the ground. No readable text, lettering, slogans or logos anywhere; any people are fictional fully clothed adults with clearly adult proportions and faces.
