Canvas

Takeda just can't get it: why is his painting of classmate Kuwabara "not good enough" and "lacking substance" while her study of him is praised? Kuwabara finds Takeda after school studying the two paintings, but he still can't see the difference. Finally he asks her what she thinks. "If you fall in love with your subject and observe," she starts to explain and then stops in blushing confusion. Takeda seizes her wrist before she runs away and tells her, "I want to paint you again, Kuwabara..."

Published in COMIC TENMA 2006-04.