paintComponent only called sometimes

paintComponent only called sometimes

I am making a program that takes a two dimensional integer array and uses
its data to draw tiles to the screen in the arrangement specified in the
array. Without modifying any of the code, the program will execute fine
about 4 out of 5 times. Other times the custom JPanel will not display
anything. After inserting system.out.print() in various places I have
determined that it is caused by the paintComponent method not being called
when nothing is displayed. Obviously it is called when the tiles are
displayed perfectly. I can't seem to find the source of this
inconsistency. Why would it work the majority of the time and not every
once in a while?
Its called Isopanel because it will eventually display tiles in an
isometric formation. 0s equate to water tiles and 1s equate to sand tiles.
JPanel Class and JFrame class:
public class IsoPanel extends JPanel
{
private ArrayList <BufferedImage> tiles;
private int[][] leveldata =
{
{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
{0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0},
{0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0},
{0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0},
{0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0},
{0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0},
{0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0},
{0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0},
{0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0},
{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0}
};
public IsoPanel()
{
tiles = new ArrayList<BufferedImage>();
tiles.add(Frame.loadImage("water.png"));
tiles.add(Frame.loadImage("sand.png"));
}
public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
{
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
for (int i=0; i<10; i++)
{
for (int j=0; j<10; j++)
{
int x = j * 50;
int y = i * 50;
int tileType = leveldata[i][j];
placeTile(tileType, x, y, g);
}
}
}
public void placeTile (int tile,int x,int y, Graphics g)
{
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
g2.drawImage(tiles.get(tile), null, x, y);
}
}
public class Frame extends JFrame
{
public Frame()
{
super ("Iso");
Dimension screenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
setBounds(0,0,screenSize.width, screenSize.height);
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
setResizable(false);
setVisible(true);
BorderLayout bord = new BorderLayout();
setLayout(bord);
IsoPanel iso = new IsoPanel();
add(iso,BorderLayout.CENTER);
GridLayout grid = new GridLayout(1,1);
iso.setLayout(grid);
iso.setVisible(true);
}
public static BufferedImage loadImage(String filename)
{
{
try
{
return ImageIO.read(new File(System.getProperty( "user.dir"
)+"/src/"+filename));
}
catch(IOException e)
{
}
}
return null;
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Frame one = new Frame();
}
}