Events & workshops

This intensive four-day workshop takes you inside my personal studio approach, offering a transparent look at how a painting evolves from an initial concept into a powerful, finished work.

Through daily step-by-step demonstrations, lectures, and personalized instruction, you'll learn how to simplify complex subjects, strengthen compositions through thoughtful design, and use color with purpose and confidence brushstrokes. Working from your own photo references, you'll develop finished paintings that are both expressive and thoughtfully designed while building a clear, efficient process that you can apply to your own work.

Students will complete two finished oil paintings during the workshop. Whether you're looking to strengthen your design skills, refine your painting process, or create more expressive work, this workshop will provide practical techniques and valuable studio insights to help you confidently bring an expressive studio painting to completion.

This five-day workshop is 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 interesting paintings. In this workshop, we will be painting variation subjects such as urban landscape, 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 balance realistic and abstract elements in your painting will also be discussed. 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. Each student will have the benefit to have one-on-one review time on the last day with the instructor.

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 and focusing on the urban landscape. There will be a discussion on how to simplify and utilize shapes to capture mood and atmospheric perspective to create a variety of lighting situations such as rainy gray days, strong sunlight, twilight/night scenes. How to suggest your painting with good design, exciting brushstrokes and colors. How to balance realistic and abstract elements 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. Each student will have the benefit to have 1 on 1 review time on the last day with the instructor.

All levels are welcome.

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 and focusing on the urban landscape. There will be a discussion on how to simplify and utilize shapes to capture mood and atmospheric perspective to create a variety of lighting situations such as rainy gray days, strong sunlight, twilight/night scenes. How to suggest your painting with good design, exciting brushstrokes and colors. How to balance realistic and abstract elements 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.