Also in 1986, Jane won the Most Popular award from the Big Island Art Guild. In 1989 Jane was awarded Second Place - Watercolor for the Mauna Lani Summer Arts Fest. Permitting more people to enjoy her art, several images of Jane's paintings have been reproduced for greeting cards and posters since 1985. Jane's signature technique, watercolors drawn on specially treated Chinese silk, allows a softer look than paper. You build many layers and each shade of color is one layer.
Some pictures have hundreds of shades, so it takes a lot of time to do.
You cannot imitate nature exactly, you must transform it to your own way of seeing. I go out and take photographs and then come back and translate it to my own vision. Chinese paintings usually are not three-dimensional, but I like to show three dimensions. Like his wife, he also discovered his artistic gift as a child. Linus made his way to Taiwan and spent four years at Taiwan Normal University.