Enjoy the Time You Have
Chinese Watercolor Painting

Enjoy the Time You Have

The title is actually a poem about enjoying the attributes of your current age, and enjoying the time that you have on this world.

Notes about the Art...

While the name of the artist is Wang Wen-Hua, he has signed this "Fan Zeng". This is not his pen name, but rather this painting is a tribute to a famous artists named Fan Zeng (In this case, "tribute" is a nice way to say this is almost a "forgery"). Of course, if you don't have $50,000 you cannot afford an original Fan Zeng painting.

About the artist...

The artist's name is (Wang Wen-Hua) who lives in the Jinan area of Shandong Province in Northern China. He specializes in traditional figure paintings and subjects like this (especially Buddhism and philosophy-related themes).

About the Art

This was painted on Chinese xuan paper (often incorrectly called "rice paper"). The artist used watercolors throughout.

After buying this from the artist in Jinan, I rolled it up in a tube, and put it in my backpack. I then took the 5-hour-train ride back to our workshop in Beijing. At the workshop, it was laminated to more sheets of xuan paper and a silk border was added by our skilled craftsmen. See more about mounting Asian art