Unable to find models, she would go to the public baths and secretly paint the women there. Then she started looking in the mirror to paint herself naked. Her husband Pan Tzan-hua, who had previously always been very supportive, found this hard to accept.
像是清末民初留法畫家潘玉良，找不到模特兒，就跑到澡堂去偷畫女體，後來更對著鏡子自畫裸像，這使得一向最支持她的先生潘贊化也無法接受。