Two sets of hieroglyphs

[Partizan007]

Hello!

I live in Russia, and once accidentally i stumbled across i chinese calligraphist who wrote to sets of hieroglyphs to me. Unfortunately, i was extremely in a hurry and didn't memorize translations. I managed to figure out half of them (fulfillment of wishes, luck and heath) but it is extremely difficult as drawing techniques apparently differ a lot.

Could you help me translate them (indicating the position of each of them) and also express an opinion about the author's technique if you know something about it.

Thanks in advance.

[anonymoose]

Reading top to bottom from the right-hand side, it says 健康 which means "health", 幸福 which means "happiness", and 萬事如意 which literally means "ten thousand things as you wish", but would be more reasonably translated as something like "all the best" or "may all your wishes come true".

I'd say the penmanship looks fairly nice, with a layman's eye, but I don't know why the characters on the right-hand side of each sheet are larger than on the left.

[Hofmann]

The one who wrote that is not a calligrapher. I hope you didn't pay for it.

[skylee]

The meanings are as said in #2. The words are not well written. I too hope that you did not pay for them.

[Partizan007]

Thank you for your replies!

Actually, I did pay 6.6 USD for each sheet.

If I may, I've got another question. I know, that small hieroglyphs on the left side are the man's signature (or name), but what does the red stamp stand for?

[jbradfor]

It is the artist's seal. Typically also the artist's name, think of it as equivalent to the artist signing it.

[Hofmann]

...Yeah you got scammed. Go introduce a bat to his fa-uhh...I mean, I am against using violence, so perhaps you can..."persuade" him to learn Chinese (for all I know he could be illiterate) or give you your money back.