Loxley’s Sky Paint

Little Loxley loved mirrors and the park. He wanted to make a sky-paint that looked like his sister's purple idea. One morning Loxley held a shiny spoon up to his face and frowned: the front showed his smile upside down, but the back showed it the right way! He remembered the spoon was curved like a little bowl on the front (concave) and curved like a bubble on the back (convex), and that made the light flip or shrink his reflection. Loxley had a plan. He borrowed a friend’s round bowl and a tiny mirror and practiced tilting them, watching how light bent and how colors changed. When the sun sank low the sky turned orange, because sunlight travels through more air and the blue scatters away, leaving reds and oranges. Loxley mixed paints inspired by the orange sunset and his flipped spoon reflections, then painted a purple stripe for his sister so it felt like both of them. He learned how curves and sunlight work, painted something brave and kind, and hugged his sister while they admired the picture together.