one of Mia's artworks...

...bird in the bush ..

framed...

close-up, ( scanned )

This is one artwork done on ordinary paper ( it's a pity because it will soon corrode after a decade or so ). She did this I think one time when she was already gr. 1 or 2..But she used a marble instead of brush. She dipped the marble in brown acrylic and she rubbed it back and forth on the piece of paper over a red "bird" she created with one of her fingers ( I suppose it is the fore finger; I used this finger for this purpose ) rubbing it long enough to create an effect. I do not think she was even thinking when she did this. Most art do not involve intellect anyway, it involves FEELINGS and EMOTIONS, tons of 'em. If I did not have the eye for art, it could have been thrased away. I was the one who named it bird in the bush. Then I bought a suitable frame for it.I f you look at it closely, there is really a bird in the bush with a small black dot for an eye!

Most children, if not all of them, are natural born artists. Some paint better than most. And they do it on any surface ( heaven help them if they do it on a living room wall ) . One time Mia used water colours ( light blues and a touch of yellow ) on an unused  ceiling tile, one with tiny holes in its surface. It was a divine piece of beauty if ever I did see one..After a year, the colours faded to oblivion. It became another ordinary tile again and I could never ask her to re-create what she had done to that ceiling tile a long time ago.--#