[Isabel Chiang]

Michele, Thanks! I'll take your words by heart.

Lisa, It's always great to hear from you. yeah... I just feel tired of doing the same thing over and over again. Now my biggest challenge is to keep it exciting and refreshing for me and for the viewers. I don't want to get to a point where I lose my passion one day. Being a good drawer doesn't automatically make me an artist. Art is about passion. If my work doesn't speak for itself, or doesn't show a bit of my passion, then I fail to be an artist, despite my patience and technical ability. I know I can do a decent job of rendering, but my real challenge is to capture life, to share the emotional impact the sitter has on me and to do a drawing that