Lyme Academy of Fine Arts: True To Form:Principles of Landscape Painting Workshop with Patrick Okrasinski

August 25–29, 2025

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.