5 more updates! from (Oct 3rd - 24/24)

-CHALLENGE: To paint twenty four facebook friends portraits in twenty four hours-James stopped by around 8pm,  and brought us some coffee. So sweet.  I received some quick high energy from the coffee for the last stretch of the marathon.  I like hearing his traveling stories and see his photos on facebook. He goes everywhere.... I mean everywhere From North Korea, to a wild camp in Alaska, Israel to Cambodia, where next??? My friend from College Hon. I miss her so much. I still remember the conversation we had on Savannah River Street about our future and here we are now. So strange how time passes so quickly. I was not scared about the unknown in front of us, since she was always so "zen"and grounded me. Sheis an amazing artist.I realized I still had to finish 7 portrait paintings in  2 hours! ! ! ! ! ! ! Now I speeded up my brush and pencil drawing.  20 mins to paint Kiriko san.  It was a quick gesture drawing and water color but I was happy with it.Wesley was also painting his awesome hair die piece that day.  Always so interesting the things he does. And look, he just commented on my wall, so he was the next target for me to paint. :)  Cool tattoos on those digits !!   I had an hour break to get some dinner for myself and other fellow artists includingour students who joined the challenge to make art for 12 hours straight.  They were avery focused bunch. They were all around 12~15 yrs old.  They did an awesome job. Around 4 pm, at this point, I had been painting for more than 2o hours continuously. Hofan came to visit since she knew about my challenge and since she is sweet like that.  It was very surprising because I was out of friends to paint since I made a strict rule to myself to paint only friends who I interacted with during the 24 hours.  But Hofan was the first person who I started to paint against this "rule" that I created. Then all of sudden, she called and said I will come to visit you now! Whaaaa???? It was a magical moment. :)