Liluushka's Plein Air Fine Art Classes

I have been teaching Fine Arts for 25 years. . Play and expression is the main mood of my class while teaching valuable painting techniques. Join this supportive workshop that empowers the unflolding of your own creativity.

The Plein Air Landscape Art Classes are a great way to lossen up and find your expression, and express what you see. I teach observation and rendition skills as well as developing the muscle of interpretation. The subcounscious linked to the right part of the brain holds incredible capacity to render and express what it sees.

We will find a location that works for you.

30.00/hour

Finding the Creative Urge

Within the process of evolution, >acceptance< of where i am at is a big portion of my expression. By diving in with playful intent, i can only win....win myself and even more: win back parts of myself i had lost and are resurfacing.

Valuing the childlike qualities of our being helps those parts to unfold as they should have before the door closed on them early at age.

Playing is a safe welcoming for the traumatized parts of ourselves that holds a lot of the creative potential, and would otherwise not come out.

The beauty with painting is that one can receive their own inner messages, inner guidance, or purely enjoy the product of play, hung on the wall for reminder of what we are passionate about, and what we live for (easily forgotten in this fast pace robotic life).

Latest Paintings and the Process

Winter Sun Resting in her Valley

Painted onsite, this original piece conveys the power of Sushine bathing in the feminine forms of a valley. this valley is called Iao Valley (on Maui, Wailuku). It is a well known power place where the Kahunas (Hawaiian medicine men) used to do their ceremonies and healing. Painting here is like therapy for me..it feels like i would want to paint there for ever..The fresh crisp yet soft breeze of this power place will enhance liveliness in a living room, or invite one to his/her wildness in an entrance way,...painted on quality canvas. My Landscape look really good with darker wood frames (like Koa) with an inner linen creme frame.


Whisper of Makena


Hawaiian Fisherman Meets Mano (shark)

This painting is a commission from a live scene that happened right where i often paint. A Hawaiian fisherman reeled-in a big Tiger shark. Some German tourists passing by asked me to paint the scene for them to bring back this "once in a lifetime" experience home. It was a great challenge to paint the shark and make it look real, even with the pictures they took, and even if i saw it myself. Sharks are just very surreal looking , and it almost seemed not real, lying there on the beach. The hawaiian young man took 2 hours to bring it to shore, and let him go back in the ocean. Hawaiians are raised to greatly respect the Hamakua (the animal spirit protector).



Lushious Night

This Painting was painted on Charles Young beach on the right side. The last "finishing touch" day was extremely windy, and my painting was literally moving as the waves were too. It helped bring more of the feeling of the life force on a wild night by the beach. This sweet Maui local family bought the painting. It feels good to have some paintings find a home here on Maui, because i don't think i will be here much longer, and it is like leaving some of my presence with this part of Mother Earth..like an offering. They are all over Maui now.

Stairway to the Kitchen

This one is a painting of a jungle stairway to the community kitchen where i used to live. My partner lives here, so i get to come paint on this lushious Haiku land sometimes..I am about to get up and paint there, right after this post! The land here is mesmorizing. Jungle grows soo lush here it is hard to select what to paint. This is the more raw version, and i am going to refine it a little bit and post the next version soon. Not much alterations..just some compositional adjustments. I lived in a small , i'd say tiny Yurt then, and had to hike down to the kitchen.

More Landscapes

In Front Of the Mexican Restaurant





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