Use more light colors than dark, says Sarah. She's right. She knows how to color her world - a big blob of white, a medium blob of yellow, and a tiny blob of green.

Carolina mixes brown from red and green, then adds white. Gray! This calls for orange. Finally, tree-trunk color. She wants to stand by a tree.

It's called "peach," not "flesh color," I remind myself. There are, after all, different colors of skin. We mix lots of it to get it right. We mix lots of all the colors!

This is as much as we can do today. We have painted our surroundings, but we will have to wait to see ourselves in them until next week.