Are you a fan of Project Runway (a reality show where fashion designers compete in various design challenges to get the chance to showcase their collections at Fashion Week)?  If you are, you know that before designing their collections for Fashion Week, the final four contestants will start the design process by collecting little things [...]

I happened to watch Charlie Rose’s interview of Jim Collins on PBS recently.  (Jim Collins is a business consultant, author, and lecturer on the subject of company sustainability and growth.  His books include best sellers such as Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, and Good to Great).  I was intrigued by some of [...]

Dear Readers, Thank you for your support for my blog.  I have been blogging for only about one month and I haven’t done anything to market my blog,  but I already received quite a few nice comments from some of the readers.  It is very encouraging.  So I want to use this opportunity to thank [...]

Do you think artistic talent is innate or do you think artistic talent can be nourished? I believe that all of us possess artistic talent but it is stored in us in different ways.  A small number of people are able to reveal their artistic talent at a young age but most of us need [...]

I am a late bloomer when it comes to art.  I didn’t show any artistic promise when I was a child.  I didn’t even show much interest in art when I was a child.  However,  deep inside, I knew I would love to  be a portrait artist when I was about 8 or 9-years-old.  That [...]

Since this is my first post, I think it is best to talk about how I started my art journey.   I hardly ever drew or painted before I took my first oil painting class when I was in my mid-twenties.  However, I knew I wanted to be a portrait artist after I watched my [...]