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A year ago, I made up my mind to REALLY get back to painting. At that time I had just completed my term as a beauty queen and was freed from a lot of obligations, and I decided that it was absolutely time to end my 5-year hiatus as an artist.

But, it wasn’t easy to paint again after 5 years of not painting anything. My hand was stiff as I hesitated to make a mark on a blank canvas. I felt I needed some kind of structure to get myself started again, therefore I enrolled myself in a nighttime painting class at the nearby Fullerton College.

It was this week a year ago that I picked up the paint brush again for the first time. And tonight, I can’t be more proud to say that I’ve kept up with it, that I’ve completed several very satisfactory works, that I am still pushing myself to take nighttime painting class after long hours of work, and that I am still absolutely determined to keep on painting, and painting, and painting.

At the end of last year I secretely set a goal that I want to complete 12 real good paintings this year, and make a calendar of my paintings to give to close family and friends. Although, I am currently behind on that goal, I am still proud to say that in the past 12 months, I’ve regained my confidence as an artist, I’ve been in one art show, and the Fullerton College arts department liked one of my paintings so much that they borrowed it to hang in the school’s theatre lobby for a whole year, and I’ve framed a few paintings for my parents to keep. And most exciting of all is that after a pretty prestigious selection process, one of my paintings was chosen to be published by City of Los Angeles!

For the upcoming months I’ll continue to work on my painting calendar goal, in addition to “trying” to be in one more art show before my wedding.

Wish me luck!