that's grace huang, just started it.

You are smart enough to know that the conferring of "success" is a fickle thing. If you want it too much--you'll never have it; if you don't want it at all--you'll never have it. For any artist, probably the sanest way to view success is as a means to an end: artists with a certain level of success have a wider audience for their work. That is good, unless or until you become a "celebrity artist", which is not always so good. Then the focus shifts from the art to the artist, with often dire consequences for the art (and sometimes for the artist, too). Success (whether judged on a single work of art or a career) is always conferred in retrospect, anyway. You are smart to focus on making the best art you currently know how while still pushing yourself out of your comfort zone in the hopes of being a better artist tomorrow than you were yesterday. Anything else isn't about art, but something else. You're too busy and too focused to care about any of that "something else". People have their opinions. Some are opinions worth taking to heart, some are not. Opinions have a way of changing with time anyway. For an artist, the best way to judge their works is in retrospect, viewed against not only what came before, but also what came after. But that is the work of critics (the good ones, at least) and art historians, and I bet you thank your lucky stars every morning when you wake up that you are neither a critic nor an art historian!

totally looks like her! ;-D

Really like the top two. Knowing your typical subjects it's not hard to guess what they are (at least the first one). It's like stories are being told - with the bare minimum of required details

have you ever considered doing a time lapse video of you painting? or would that be letting the cat out of the bag? :-)

These close-ups are way cool. Just read an article on the 99% and thought it was relevant. It's called the Art of Momentum: http://the99percent.com/tips/6815/the-art-of-momentum-why-your-ideas-need-speed With all those blank canvases, I guess all the hardworking can be mispercieved, but I think a lot of people also forget that making art is also working. I'm not an artist because I want to be, I'm an artist because I have to be.

nice artwork and cool trip