
Luckybug mixes a sunset orange on her palette for the gallery’s empty centre wall. She wants her first large painting to be perfect.
A four-page gallery story about an unexpected splash, a new idea and a painting made together.
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Luckybug mixes a sunset orange on her palette for the gallery’s empty centre wall. She wants her first large painting to be perfect.

Quill-Berry carries over Ted’s portrait—and bumps the table. A blue splash lands across Luckybug’s glowing sky.

Luckybug nearly hides the canvas. Then Flutter-Butter says the splash looks like a river, so all three turn the smudge into a moonlit town.

At the gallery opening, visitors point first to the blue river. Luckybug signs all three names because the accident became their shared idea.
A moonlit river.
They can become new ideas.
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