Fealing Lin

Award-winning watercolorist, Fealing Lin, was born in Taiwan
and collaborates on her career in the United States with
watercolorist and senior art historian professor Verna Wells.
With a fluidity of colors, Lin combines impressionistic strokes and semi-abstract
techniques to elicit life and movement in her portrait and landscape watercolors.
She has taught watercolor workshops throughout the US and Canada and is a
signature member of National Watercolor Society, Watercolor West, and the Missouri Watercolor Society
Her paintings adorn the paper with both harmony and emotion and have been been
enthusiastically embraced by the general public and private collectors alike.

Upcoming Workshops

Additional Information

Cityscape/Landscape

Proper values for the foreground, middleground and background is the key for the depth of a successful cityscape/landscape painting. This workshop will be focusing on how to separate then to interlock these grounds with value studies. Furthermore, the possible formats will be explored for the strong composition and design.

There will be a demo from Fealing, some exercises for you, and plenty of personal instruction. Workshop might be concluded with critique.

Please select some photo references with strong light and shadow patterns. Avoid scenes are too complicated or too flat. We will be working on values and shapes, not details. You might want to do some drawing at home to save time at the workshop.

Refer to the material list, but use the colors and paper sizes you are comfortable with. Do bring some larger brushes though.

Bring mats for showing your work at the critique.

Portraiture/Figure

Although portrait painting can be very intimidating, Fealing will teach you how to relax and enjoy the process as you discover the spontaneity and uniqueness to watercolor. You will also learn how to capture the quality of light available to you. You will achieve a level of transparency with your images and develop an understanding of head architecture that will give you the confidence to take on even the most challenging portraits. Award winning watercolorist, Fealing combines semi-abstract strokes and impressionistic concepts to elicit life and movement in her portrait and figure paintings. There will be daily lecture, exercise and demo. Fealing will assist and critique student’s works whatever way she could, and allow the students to work on their own pace. During this workshop, learn how value and temperature change, as well as how to use transparent glazing to allow the glow of the paper to shine through. By balancing colors and weaving lights and darks, you will achieve painterly and successful paintings. She will spend time in the workshop discussing the value and essentials of a good drawing, although the focus will be on painting.

Suggested Supply List

Paints

  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Cerulean Blue
  • Cobalt Blue
  • Turquoise Blue
  • Prussian Blue
  • Green Gold
  • New Gamboge
  • Quinacridone Gold
  • Raw Sienna
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Burnt Umber
  • Permanent Alizarin Crimson
  • Quinacridone Magenta
  • Quinacridone Burnt Orange
  • Opera
  • Cadmium yellow
  • Cadmium orange
  • Cadmium red
  • Alizarin crimson
  • Quinacridone gold
  • Quinacridone burnt orange
  • Raw sienna
  • Burnt sienna
  • Burnt umber
  • Hoocker's green
  • Cerulean blue
  • Turquoise blue
  • Cobalt blue
  • Ultramarin blue
  • any violet

  • Please use the palette of colors you are most familiar with

    • Brushes

  • My favorites are 2’’, 1 ½ ’’, 1’’, ½ ’’ flat and # 12 round
  • Riggers, old oil brushes, tooth brushes , and palette knives are very useful
  • #1 rigger

    • Paper

  • Arches 140 lb. cold press or soft press
  • Frabriano 300 lb. hot press

    • Miscellaneous

  • palette
  • container for water
  • masking tape
  • paper towels
  • cardboard to tape paper to
  • pencils (2B or 3B)
  • kneaded eraser
  • spray bottle
  • mats for showing paintings
  • table easel
  • facial tissue and old bath towels

    • Gallery

    Some of Fealing Lin's works