Oh-Kee Kim, age 55, lives in Quebec, and graduated from Jeon Ju University in South Korea. She's also a member of the Association of American Portrait Painters, and travels around the U.S. to conferences.

In Korea, I studied oil painting, sketch, portrait, nude, and costume. It was very traditional, very classic.

In 1994 I went to Paris, and won a bronze, in Artists Francais. I entered a large oil painting of a wall in Korea, with carvings on it. A tradition wall.

I came here, for the first time in March, and the second time in June. I think it's very interesting to paint people from all different places. In Canada, in Ottawa, in Montreal, in Quebec. Now I live in Canada, sometimes I want to come back here and paint portraits, in New York

Since 2003 I've gone to Portrait conferences in Philadelphia, and Chattanooga, and Nashville. I'm a member of the Association of American Portrait Painters.

When I'm here in NY, I stay in my friend's apartment in the Bronx. And I come here to paint 7 days a week.

I charge all different prices, diffeent days I charge different amounts. Sometimes more, sometimes less. And it's good practice, also!