Apart from actively promoting the art of distemper, in the 1950s Lin established Chinglung Publishing in order to strengthen art education. It stood at the forefront of a trend to get artists to edit and publish elementary art textbooks.
除了積極推廣膠彩畫之外，為了落實美術教育，林之助在 1950 年代中期成立青龍出版社，首開風氣之先，以畫家身分積極投入國小美術教科書的編輯與出版。