The Miraculous Journey

Brilliant Little Branch from Moringa oleifera tree, most likely.

I saw it in the unusual light while on the morning walk wit Cookie. --- I said to myself:  'How wonderful it would be if 

I could turn it into a miraculous painting... with those tiny drops of round  diamond crystals... three or five droplets on selected leaflets.' I returned hours later to capture it on my IPhone camera. By then the Miraculous Little Branch looked differently. -- How? -- The droplets of rainwater were mostly gone... so the value of the visual miracle was lesser.

And now I probably won't produce any masterpiece ...... or I just might! --- Because in my mind's eye there is a vivid record of the first image of the "Brilliant Little Branch."

Children's Art Class: Drawing Pets

Wonderful illustration by my 7 year old student, Cortez V. The lesson today was about seeng shapes in a photograph of 

a pair of pets: a cat an a dog. -- Cortez used a charcoal pencil, white pastel pencil and markers on a dry paper, previously stained with watercolor. He came up with an idea of writing a title "Pet Picture Day" and added a person behind a camera.

Pet Picture Day by Cortez V. , mixed media on paper, 12 x 9 in.

/Malgorzata Kawashima - Art Instructor