Principles of Landscape Painting Workshop with Patrick Okrasinski
Instructor: Patrick Okrasinski
Dates: August 25–29, 2025
Times: 9 am–4 pm (lunch 12-1 pm; participants are asked to bring their own bagged lunch)
Levels/Ages: All levels welcome; ages 18+
Workshop Location: Multiple plein air venues of historical significance in Old Lyme, Connecticut; in case of inclement weather a studio on the campus of the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts will be reserved. Please note that participants will be asked to walk short distances with materials in tow.
Directions and Parking: Registered students will receive detailed information in advance of the Workshop start date.
Taking place in the historic town of Old Lyme, Connecticut, the “home of American Impressionism,” this Workshop builds connections between 19th-century academic training, Impressionism, New England schools of painting at the turn of the century, and representational painting today. Guided instruction by acclaimed artist Patrick Okrasinski will address theories of value, mass, composition, representing light and color, optical effects encountered outdoors, perspective, and more. Morning demonstrations will include painting basics, from pencil sketch and composition to color-comp study and completion of individual landscape paintings, and will draw from both academic and Impressionist principles. Students will learn how to incorporate these into independent and original landscape paintings, as they enjoy plein air landscape painting in a storied and picturesque setting.
Please note that registration for this workshop is non-refundable and does not include supplies or materials; please see the Terms and Conditions for details before making the final purchase.
Questions? admissions@lymeacademy.edu
Artist Bio
Patrick Okrasinski was born in New York City in 1996, and from an early age, he was consumed by drawing. Summers on his grandparents’ farms in the picturesque Polish countryside nurtured his love of the natural world.
Beginning in 2016, he was able to study at the highest levels of figurative painting at the Florence Academy of Art. As a student, he won numerous prizes. After graduating in 2019, he spent three months as an Artist-in-Residence with the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, painting in Monet’s garden and the surrounding French countryside. In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious Donald Jurney Traveling Fellowship Grant to travel and paint the great historical and cultural centers of Europe.
In 2021 and 2022, he was awarded the Hudson River Fellowship at Wethersfield, a collaborative fellowship that brings together classically trained artists to study and paint nature for three weeks. In 2023, he was honored to be a part of the Institute of Classical Art and Architecture’s exhibition Enduring Beauty: Works from Emerging Practitioners of the Classical Tradition, a select display of leading young professionals in classical art and architecture today.
He continues his work as an artist as well as an educator.
Instagram: @patrickokra
Website: patrickokrasinski.com
Supplies and Materials
Lyme Academy’s art store, de Gerenday’s Fine Art Materials and Curiosities, will be open during the workshop. Registered students will receive Patrick Okrasinksi’s Plein Air Painting Materials List and Guide, which includes the instructor’s recommended oil paint colors for a limited travel palette.
Supply List at a Glance:
- Portable Easel/Palette
- Painting Support (Panels, Papers, etc)
- Wet Panel Carrier
- Brushes
- Wet Brush Holder
- Oil Paint
- Medium
- Palette Knives and Cup
- Drawing Supplies
- Additional (Hat, Paper towel, Sunscreen, trashbag etc)
