Artist at work

Artist at work, originally uploaded by schoolio.

Melissa puts the finishing touches on her old-style Ki at the great Paint-a-Plate event. To be honest, I didn't know what it was until kaycat on Flickr commented on the photo.

A tiny bit of sleuthing uncovered the Wikipedia entry for Ki which reads in part:

The Japanese word ki 気, from Chinese qi, the originally Chinese cultural concept meaning "life force" or "spiritual energy"

After that, I remembered that the stencil had "Energy" on the bottom and which our artist creatively omitted. I can't wait to see the final product.