I recently enjoyed a challenging and fun two day workshop given by Fealing Lin. The workshop was held at the National Watercolor Society's wonderful new headquarters in San Pedro, CA. The focus of this workshop was Landscapes and Cityscapes.
I've met so many watercolor artists who have been students of Fealing Lin that I really wanted to finally meet her. Fealing Lin is well known for her portraits but I also love her landscapes and street scenes so I was looking forward to the class for months. Fealing is such a lovely person and also an excellent, instructive teacher. It's always so helpful to watch accomplished watercolor artists as they work. Fealing painted a scene and then we tried a painting from the same reference. It's fun to see how each of our pieces turned out so differently when we all used the same reference photo. I finished two landscapes, a cityscape, and started a fourth piece from one of my own photos. The workshop camaraderie among the artists is of course one of the best parts. I just love workshops!
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| My 8x10" watercolor |
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Two lovely paintings Sherry, glad you had fun, it is fantastic at the number of wonderful workshops you get offered in your country
ReplyDeleteHi Lorraine, Thank you! I really appreciate your comments. You're so right that I'm lucky to be near these workshops.
DeleteThese are beauties, Sherry. Such strong and colorful contrasts, and I love your people in the top one. I agree, you are so lucky to have these workshops so close to you, at your disposal. Thanks for sharing about it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Terry! I'm feeling a little spoiled with these wonderful workshops nearby.
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ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that you enjoyed her workshop.. i'm a big fan of Fealing Lin and just trying to find out her techniques for cityscapes.. could you please write more about how she goes about it? i understand she lays a wash of different colors over the entire paper before she begins with the details? could you please explain a big more into it?
Thanks,
Shailja
Hi Shailja, That's right, Fealing does a first wash putting different colors in that correspond to what will be painted. Not just random colors. She mostly is concerned with the light and dark values, where they will be, and leaving the light areas of the wash very light. She lets that dry. In the next layers she does a lot of "juggling" of the colors she adds, fading them out with water and blotting sometimes to make them softer. The darks get built up with more layers.
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