After testing into Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, Yang again began studying with Liang. Six months later, Liang told him he needed to start studying on his own, without the crutch of a teacher revising his work. Determined to keep painting, in his freshman year of high school Yang assembled a group of like-minded peers and in 1972 established the Jianguo Fine Arts Club.
考上建中後，楊恩生再度回到梁丹丰的畫室學習，半年後，梁老師要他自學成長，不要再依賴老師改畫；為了持續繪畫的熱情，這個高一生便邀集同好，在 1972 年創立了「建中美術社」。