National Handwriting Day: Luci

January 23rd is National Handwriting Day, and Delphi students are participating by sending in handwritten essays to Handwriting Without Tears. We'll be sharing many of the essays with you here, beginning with this one by Luci that comes with this lovely painting.


A few weeks ago, my class and I went on a field trip to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. The exhibit we saw was Japanese screen paintings. I was really inspired by the beautiful artwork.

For this contest I decided to paint a koi fish that was similar to a painting I saw at the exhibit. In this painting, a blue koi fish is swimming in the water. The green strip that is shown in the painting depicts the path taken by the fish. I decided to paint a koi fish because of their beauty. They can come in many vibrant colors and different sizes.