Light spot

Dedicated to Peter Semenovich – a true teacher.

Not everyone in life is lucky to meet a real teacher, but those who are lucky will remember him until their last "cup of water".

My wife and I went to visit Masha. Masha is a rather successful artist, for her paintings in Europe and America are paid some undue huge money.
Thro the house on the walls hanged a whole estate - Painting Cars.
I walk, admire, look – in a beautiful frame obviously a child’s work, on it a man in a white shirt, and on his chest he has some green spot, whether it is algae, whether it is moss, or just an abstraction. In short, strange somehow.
I ask :

Did you paint too?
and yes. This is our beloved Peter Semenovich - the head of the studio in the Pioneer Palace.
What fucking green is it?
When I was eight years old, I painted this painting at the entrance exam. There the contest was like the Academy of Arts. Everyone wanted to study with Peter Semenovich.
The parents are worried behind the door, and we sit and paint. Not an apple but a living person. and joke.
The naturalist was the teacher himself, but we did not know him then and saw him for the first time in life. Four hours had already ended, I was terribly nervous, rushed, and here, somehow inaccurately pulled, stuck with a pot for molbert and op... Green spot almost half a picture.
Nothing could be corrected, I sit quietly and cry. Life is over.
After a while, Peter Semenovich noticed my tears, stood up from the chair, approached, looked at the painting, silently took a bowl of green paint and, without any emotion, poured it on his chest.
Then he sat back and said, "My friends, pay attention - now I have such a beautiful, green spot on my shirt, if time allows, you can also draw it.

Masha smiled and began to put the wind in her face with her palms so that the dust did not flow.