I learned to paint from my brain.
I decide what to paint from my imagination.
(violin music)
Hi Rachael, I'm Juliette.
I'm four years old. I'm in second grade.
My hobbies are playing violin, piano,
singing, martial arts and painting.
I started painting when I was eight months old.
My parents put me on the dining room table
and gave me paint and paper to play with
so I can keep my mess in one place.
She loves to paint.
This is a painting that she did,
realism where it's the trees as a background
out of the back of the house.
And she drew, the leaves, the color, the sky,
she did all that on her own, all from memory.
It's amazing that she has that ability,
she hasn't taken no classes.
I've been giving painting lessons on zoom and on YouTube.
And today I am going to give you,
and your viewers a painting lesson.
First, We tape down the canvas
so it doesn't move when you paint.
Now, we're gonna do the background.
We all are gonna paint a lavender field.
Now that our background is dry,
we are gonna do the grass.
We dip a little green and a little black
because grass are not always the same color.
Then we're gonna paint the clouds with the cotton ball.
Now going to draw the butterfly first with a pencil.
We are gonna use a small brush to color on the butterfly,
We use orange and black.
Now, we are going to do the white dots
on the Monarch butterfly.
We're gonna do the stems of the lavender now.
We are gonna make purple, because I don't have purple,
with our prime colors, red and blue.
(upbeat music)
Thank you for painting with me.
This is the surrealism that she does.
She does abstract in a background.
That's a dried sheen, then she paints something on top.
This is spider. She loved this one.
I learned to paint from my brain.
I decide what to paint from my imagination.
I'm involved with many non-profits
and one of them is Asian American Donor Program.
That program, we do outreach for leukemia patients,
and we get people to be tested their DNA
so they can be matches for anyone
who needs a bone marrow transplant.
We had our auction as a fundraiser,
started out her art at $150
and people bid it up and it went up to 300.
She averaged an excess of 300
on each one of her pieces of art.
I said, "Wow, that's pretty good."
So, to date, we're at 15-$16,000
of the amount of money that she raised
for the Asian American Donor Program.
There's so much demand for her paintings out
that we've started to make prints,
and her prints are selling.
So, her originals are going for what, at least $3,000.
When I grow up I wanna be a doctor,
violinist, artist, pianist, policeman.
I'm gonna cure cancer.
(bright music)
(Juliette laughs)
Of course, you will do all of these things Juliette.
Of course you will, and of course, you may.
Welcome to our home and our show.
You're welcome Juliette.
Hi, this is my husband,
wanna say, hi, John, this is my husband, John.
Hi, how are you?
John, that's not just Juliet, that's mom and dad.
Hi, mum and dad. Hi Juliette That's Willa and Jonathan
Hey, we've got Jonathan here.
You're talented.
(laughs)
We are so proud of you.
Hi Rachael. I'm in third grade now.
You are zipping through the grades.
You'll be out of college by the time you're 10, I'm sure.
Yeah.
Our friends at Circle Time,
they do fun online interactive learning classes
so that everybody can do what you're doing
and find a little inspiration,
some of us need a class to do it,
it doesn't just come to us.
So, they want to help.
And they are donating, in your honor, Juliet,
$5,000 to the Asian American Donor Program
Wow. Fantastic.
Wow. Thank You. Surprise.
(bright music)