This is a 2-day ZOOM workshop being broadcast February 15 and 16 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Link will be sent to registered participants 2 weeks prior to event.
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
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN ONLINE WORKSHOP. A LINK WILL BE SENT TO REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS 2 WEEKS PRIOR TO THE WORKSHOP.
Artist Bio + Statement
Fealing Lin, NWS, TWSA, is based in Los Angeles. Fealing is a signature member of National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Watercolor West, Missouri Watercolor Society and others. She is a popular workshop instructor and judge for national and international shows. Her works and articles appear nationally and internationally including in France, England and Estonia. Both of Fealing's portrait and cityscape were published in many Splash books and variouss magazines in United States.
“I live for art,” says Fealing. “The challenge of each process of every painting keeps me humble, so I can continue being inspired by all the beauties in this world.”