Huihan Liu Destination Workshop
Figure in the Landscape
Taos, NM
Exact dates TBA — Please Join the Waitlist Below
Instructor: Huihan Liu
Medium: Oil Painting (Figure)
Dates: Oct 2025 (TBA)
Class times: 9:00–4:00
Tuition: $995 + $100 model fee due at class
Class Size: ONLY 12 students
Level: Intermediate-Advanced
Materials List
Huihan Liu will lead an intensive 4-day figure painting workshop in Taos, New Mexico. This will be both a studio and plein air workshop. This workshop is designed for students who have already had life-painting experience but would like to continue to improve painting their skills, as well as visual concepts. There will be a deep discussion regarding visual elements such as design, placement in the composition, and color pallet… all from direct observation from life. Huihan will be doing painting demonstrations for the class. The class will be an indoor and outdoor setting—focusing on both figure and plein-air landscapes.
Accommodations & Food
- Accommodations are not included.
- Lunch: The workshop includes lunch for all 4 days for all students. Please let Rich know if you have any allergies.
- Dinner: We will have a group dinner on the first night of the workshop. If we go out together after that, each person will take care of their own dinner bill.
Huihan Liu Bio
Hailing from Guangzhou, China, Huihan Liu displayed an early aptitude for art. Huihan Liu underwent training in China from 1972 to 1975 at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, graduating in 1975 with a B.A. However, his urban existence took an unexpected turn during Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution, as the government harbored suspicions towards the educated. Consequently, Liu’s father, a professor at a Christian college, was deemed in need of “re-education,” prompting the family’s relocation to a rural setting to acquire agricultural skills. Undeterred, Liu fled to his sister’s residence in Xinjiang, near Russia. Later, he returned home, finding employment in a factory while consistently indulging his passion for painting.
After he moved to America, he earned both a Bachelor’s degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Art College of San Francisco in 1989. During his studies in China, he cites 19th-century Western painters as his primary influencers. Specifically, he notes the impact of Russian painter Ilya Repin’s depictions of peasants, emblematic of the influence exerted by the group of artists known as the “Wanderers.”
Apart from his exploration of Tibetan people and their lifestyles in his artworks, Liu developed a profound appreciation for the architecture, colors, and landscapes of the Southwest upon relocating to the United States. Having visited New Mexico many times since his first visit in 1997, he attended an American Indian pow-wow with his wife, an experience that, in his words, “touched my heart.” Huihan expressed his admiration for the costumes and children, emphasizing that it was during this event that he derived inspiration for his paintings. He notes that some of the same patterns he observed in Tibetan life also drew him to depict scenes from American Indian culture.
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