The fateful meeting

It's time. This has to be Levis biggest chance to get his debut. It has to be the greates masterpiece of all his artworks. If he wins the contest, he would be able to look forward.
But he has no idea at all what he should draw.

Sitting for more than three days in his room isolated from the world he doesn't like that much, Levi tries to find something amazing.. something breathtaking what he could draw for a contest in France. There are just ten artists that have been selected to draw a masterpiece. The winner can exhibit it then in the museum 'Louvre' in Paris and gets a lot of money. But putting the money aside, it's the challenge he wants to face to get to know his limits of drawing better.

Levi lived on the street with his mother when he was a kid.. he was a boy who didn't care much about things... no, but there was always something he was interested in.. he liked art. The way people draw their minds or what they see around them on paper is what he liked and what he still does. After Levis mother died he had to survive alone. He went through many things and even had to steal food to has something to eat.

But someday when Levi saw an artist drawing the Eiffel Tower, he asked him why he would draw it... (back then Levi already lost his interest in art ..)

" You see that I'm an old man, right?.... I have no longer time to stay here. No one can live forever"
The man says smiling looking in the sky. " But humans are trying to tell the world that they existed... They don't want to be forgotten. So.. that's why I draw. I want that many years after my death people will see my art and feel the same feelings I do right now.

Thinking about it Levi responded with a 'Tch'.
But the old man just chuckled and gave Levi his paintbrush.
" Try it" He said and Levi sat on a chair, looking at the Eiffel Tower and started drawing.

The old man looked with widened eyes about what the little boy is doing. Every move he made was really professionally.

" You really have talent, little boy"
He said patting Levis head, who went one step backwards, because he didn't like it to be touched.
"You have wonderful hands"

Levi looked at his hands thinking about what the man said.
'If my mother would have drawn something, I could hold it in my hands now and I could have watched it everyday'
He kept thinking and got lost in his thoughts.

After that Levi came everyday to watch the old man drawing and he learned some techniques and tricks.

But Levi didn't know that the old man was really famous, untill he saw him in the newspaper with the painting of a woman, both of them drew. The name of the woman was 'Mona Lisa'.

The older man talked in an interview about Levi and that he helped him, and since then Levi and his talent suddenly became famous and everyone knew him.

He got his own art studio, a little apartment and everything he needs to live.

So that was Levis story.... after so many years of drawing and becoming more popular, he has to draw his own masterpiece now..... like the Mona Lisa the old man drew befor he died.