The Color Orange

My mother wrote recently and asked if I had been drawing. I have, mostly for other people or for the Jardin des Enfants. Yesterday, Marfoula, Hawa's cousin, pulled a bucket hat on over her mulafa, then asked me to take her portrait. Marfoula is seventeen and came to Nema just before Tabaski in December. Like Hawa, she was raised in Cote d'Ivoire and speaks Bambara in addition to Hassaniya and some French. The portrait doesn't look exactly like her, but it's fun and captures the silliness. :)