By Peng Wei, white tough silk shoes with Chinese erotic art. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

A life devoted to painting

Peng later became a painter at the Beijing Fine Art Academy around 2007 and started her free-style of life as a professional artist.

Without the necessity to work on deadline, Peng still stuck to a routine of everyday painting.

"I once thought I would spend most of my time having fun when I was freed from normal work; I did not, I still stayed at home and painted and painted," smiled Peng.

The continuous work and exploration meant she could work on more creations. She painted on plastic mannequins, put Chinese erotic paintings in shoes, and copied letters of Western musicians and writers in Chinese and attached them to her ink paintings. She also painted characters from the Bible and Renaissance paintings on Chinese-style fans.