plastic flowers i painted when i was 17 or 16 (once upon a time)...

thank you very much, devine day dreams… love your screen name… love your art… : )

thank you so much, novice… truly appreciate your comments… : )

thank you tama… i hated him just for that incident… and one other time when he cut up one of my paintings for me to do a collage project that i had no interest in… respected him for many other reasons… : )

hi sticky flowers, i am not familiar with tafe, bust assuming that it’s an institution with teachers… i teach too… at my private art school for kids… the teachers and their students have to have that mutual respect for each other… i usually ask my students if they think the piece is finished and why…. knowing when to stop is an art…. thank you~ : )

hi ray~ i hated him only for ruining this piece… : )
i respected him for many other things… he actually wanted to adop and support me so i would pursue art when my parents were dead against me going into art… they wanted me to go into the medical field (pharmacist or a nurse practitioner)… suppose i should clarify that in the description…
thanks ray…

for sure ray… did you continue your lessons with her? probably not, huh? she must not have been a great at what she was doing… i believe a great teacher should have the ability to recognize the talent in his/her students… my mr. nielson, i don’t want him to crawl under a rock…. or anything…. he’s great person and as i’ve mentioned earlier, i was mad and hated him for that incident only… and one other time when he cut up a piece of mine… yep, i wanted to kill him…. : ) thanks ray~ : )

thank you sooooooooo much, anita… xx

ouch, but haha, and yes, the anger started from my toes and came up all the way to the end of my hair with fiery rush for me too… and steam out of my ears… (like in cartoons)... ;P now days, no one dares to touch my art… why are many high school art teachers a bit strange? my students come and tell me all kinds of stories about their school art teachers… but there are as many respectable ones too, yeah?....

thank you so much, simon and have not seen you for awhile… happy to see you again… : ) : ) : )

thank you so much, erika… i bet you were a great writer at young age too… if one has it, one has it… artistic talent is something one’s born with, i believe… some discover that they had it in them later on in their lives, but were still born with it… i think most artists and writers on rb fall in that “born with it” category… : )
have a beautiful weekend, erika~ : )

sweet sweet dana, you’re way too generous with your compliments…
but~ i will very gracefully accept them and simply say thank you so much, dear… ;D

seriously, dana… thank you so so so much… it’s honor to be on same artsite with you… xoxoxo

hope you’re having a better day today… it’s friday!!!!!
have a blissful weekend !!!!!

thank you so much, jen…. hope you have a great weekend… : )

i guess we all shared mr. nielson… hehe…
thank you so so much, alf…
have a wonderful weekend… : )

thank you so much, robin… happy weekend~ : )

hehe… i think everyone has a story or two of similar incidents… either that or all high school teachers are mr. nielson… i hear about their school art teachers from my students all the time… grown ups need to learn to respect kid’s art and their creativity and thoughts… PERIOD!!! thank you very much, kym, and have a wonderful weekend… : )

i think we all have similar stories about our teachers… my students come and share their stories about their art teachers at their schools (high schools)... thank you so much… always, marilyn… : )

once upon a time… : )
i did not hate my trig teacher… in fact had a big crush on him… older french gentleman with grey hair and beard and mustache… : )

yes, i love going through my old work… thank you john… : )

hehe… you know it~ : )

i know i was…;P
thanks bev… he was a great person…

thank you so much, pip…. some of my high school students are way beyond this… : )

thank you so much for your kind words, tahnja… : )

hehe… of couse i am not still upset with him… his name is mr. nielson and i respected him for many other reasons… but he was not my best teacher and would never consider him my worst enemy either… : )
thanks, wayne~

no chet… it’s all mine… he did a cluster of those tiny flowers ( right side one of the 3 )... i would not call this a collaboration… and happy crush for you…

thank you so much, matthew… appreciate your comment~ : )

thank you so much, marja… have a wonderful weekend… : )

thank you so so kindly, voila… you are so sweet~ : )
have a beautiful weekend… xx

hi nicolle~ smart girl… keep doing that… i don’t believe in touching other people’s art… i’ve recently written an article for a local paper about people cheating with their art and portfolios… unfortunate but people are doin’ it… and even more unfortunate because it happens mostly in asian communities due to the passion of those ignorant parents’ eagerness to get their kids into more recognized schools… or plainly because some of these kids just don’t have what it takes but they have nothing else they are good at (makes me mad just thinking about it)... i’ve been asked many many times to create portfolios for high school kids and college students to submit to art colleges for their admission…. and they are willing to pay big $$ for them… sad and disgrace to all true and talented artists…. i’ve talked to the admissions counselors at several art colleges, and they said to me that many of these cases have been busted but are still going on… i know i’m way off the subject… sorry nicolle~ have fun in those classes… keep creating… and keep erasing what they (the teachers) draw for you… : ) happy weekend…

darn~ but that makes all the difference… hehe… : )

i know i am blessed… with many things…. thank you so so much, woof… have a blissful weekend~ :D

reminds me of the pattern of some fabrics my mom had when i was a little girl ( once upon a time ;P )... the colors on the original painting look much better than this… i couldn’t quite capture’em… i guess those cheap paints are pretty good… thank you, roy… have a wonderful weekend~ xo

i like this one… and so looking forward to more new ones, simon… : )

you rock, shoaib, and thank you so dearly… :D

thank you so much, hsien-ku… : )