Invited Artist'sWorkshop

Hsin-Yao Tseng's Workshop: 

Power of Expressive Brushstrokes and Mark Making! 

This 4-day workshop is particularly designed for anyone who wants to learn how to paint expressive yet energetic paintings. We will be focusing on exploring different mark making, textures and other tools besides brushes to create some interesting paintings. 

In this workshop, we will be painting mostly rainy urban scapes, city canal boat scenes and flowers. There will be a discussion on how to simplify and utilize shapes to capture mood to create expressive paintings. How to suggest your painting with good design, exciting brushstrokes and colors. How to balance realistic and abstract in your painting. 

Students will paint in oil from photo references (provided by Hsin-Yao or students themselves) each day. Hsin-Yao will demonstrate each day in the morning and then work with students on an individual basis.  

Hsin-Yao Tseng's Bio:

b. 1986, Taipei, Taiwan; currently living and working in San Francisco, CA 

Hsin-Yao paints oil in a Romantic, expressive manner that honors the Western tradition while signaling an edgy, contemporary complexity. He has a curiosity and energy that propel him toward experimentation and innovation; accordingly, he works in a range of genres: from lush evocations of cityscapes to expressive portraits, and lustrous interiors and exteriors in which multiple figures enact a story, and finally to his recent new exploration in bright colors of flower paintings. Hsin-Yao’s prose testifies to the fact that he is ambitious in the best sense; he is eager to push his art beyond what’s immediate and popular toward the timeless and real. 

Hsin-Yao has recognized by the Art Renewal Center as an ARC Living Master in 2014. He received the Signature Status recognition by Portrait Society of America in 2018. He has won many national and international awards including the First Place awards at Southwest Art Magazine Artist Excellence competition in 2016., He received both Exceptional Merit Award and Certificate of Excellence in International Portrait Competition from Portrait Society of America, in 2012 and 2010. He was honored to received Honorable Mention Award and finalist awards in ARC Salon over the years. His work is on the 2016 November cover on the Southwest Art magazine and 2012 December of the Artist’s magazine. He has exhibited his artworks in a huge number of group shows across the United States, Europe, Taiwan including solo shows, two-man shows, and many group shows. 

Artist’s website: www.hsinyaotseng.com 

Signing up 

Register with a deposit of $200 which will hold your place. The balance of $375 will be due on November 5, 2024. The workshop registration is on the first-come, first-served basis. Please press the blue "Registration" button to start the process. Hsin-Yao's workshops often sell out quickly so get your deposit in as soon as possible to assure your spot. If the workshop is full, you will go on the waiting list. 

If you find out you cannot attend and notify us at least 30 days prior to the workshop you will receive a full refund. If you notify us less than 30 days before the workshop the deposit cannot be refunded. After the workshop starts  no tuition can be refunded. 

Please contact Yuehong Song for more information