Gripping paintbrush and crayon, the artist known as "Thumbelina" splodges and splats with merry abandon, the 1-year-old star of a Tokyo exhibition that goes on way past her bedtime.
Abstract paintings by the toddler are on sale for ¥33,000 ($230) at her debut show at the Decameron gallery, tucked above a bar in the red-light district Kabukicho.
Thumbelina's vivid style is "babyish but mysteriously dexterous," says gallery director Dan Isomura, who also played matchmaker to the toddler's parents.
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