Hsin-Yao Tseng
June 2025 Painting Workshop at MindArt Studio
Cityscape Painting Workshop
Cityscape Painting Workshop
June 12 - 15 (Thur to Sun)
4 Day, 10am to 5 pm
$575
Location: 6681 Sierra ln #B, Dublin, CA94568
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
This is a 4 days cityscape workshop designed for anyone who wants to completely create their personal needs with guided individual attention and a multitude of different approaches, techniques, practices, and theories in the creation of cityscape paintings.
Students will paint in oils from photo references (provided by Hsin-Yao/or your own choice) on each day. We will cover from the basic technique and explore atmospheric perspective, discussing the importance of shapes by studying different lighting situations such as rainy days, strong sunlight, the twilight sundown mood of the city. We will also focus on simplifying your composition and how to capture mood in your work. Developing expressive style through mass, value, texture and color. Understand edge control and chroma, using expressive and bold brushwork to control your composition and create dramatic cityscape paintings. Hsin-Yao will do demonstrations each day and work with you on an individual basis. The first half of the day Hsin-Yao will paint from a photo to demonstrate his process from start to finish. The second half of the day the students will paint along with Hsin-Yao’s guidance and assistance.
All skill levels from beginner to advanced are welcome to participate.







Hsin-Yao Tseng
Hsin-Yao Tseng
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 was 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. Over the years, Hsin-Yao 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 receive Honorable Mention Award and finalist awards in ARC Salon. His work is on the 2016 November cover of the Southwest Art magazine and 2012 December of the Artist’s magazine. He has exhibited his works in a huge number of gallery group shows and solo shows across the United States, Europe, and Taiwan. His works have been sold in NYC Sothebys' Contemporary Art Auction in 2020 and 2022. Also, his works have also been showing at the MEAM in Barcelona, Spain.