Patrick Okrasinski

Patrick Okrasinski Plein Air Oil Painting
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A second painting from Aguille du Midi, Chamonix, with friends last month. Such an epic view. It was almost 4000m above ...
26/07/2026

A second painting from Aguille du Midi, Chamonix, with friends last month. Such an epic view. It was almost 4000m above sea level. Spent 9 hours up there, and got a little light headed by the end. I tried to not look down.

I can’t think of much to write for the description today. Just wanted to share something this weekend while I haven’t had many other Instagram worthy paintings to post, even though I’ve been getting some good sessions in.

I’ve almost been abroad for three months right now. The past few years, I’ve done these very long trips in the springtime and made the paintings available in the summer , usually in July or August.

However I have kept on extending this trip and I may extend it one more time. So it’s possible that this year’s sale happens in September!

regardless, if you’re interested in giving one of my humble little paintings a home, the best way to not miss the next sale is to sign up to the collectors newsletter. You’ll get all the news plus Eris images and video and digital catalogs leading up to the sale. Comment collect and I could send you an easy link to join!

If you want to learn to paint outside, I might be able to help.You can watch the full length tutorial for any of these p...
21/07/2026

If you want to learn to paint outside, I might be able to help.

You can watch the full length tutorial for any of these paintings - from the first design ideas, to drawing and color mixing and see the piece, palette, and scene side by side - on Patreon!

The first (and most recent) piece will be published in a few weeks for the next August tutorial, which will mark three full years of sharing my work on the platform!

Three years means the library of tutorials has grown quite a bit, but you can access them all for $10 a month.

While I focus on outdoor painting, I also have videos on studio painting, drawing, and other exercises to study and improve at painting. Each post also has a hires image of the painting and picture of the scene, for anyone that wants to follow along the process!

If you want to watch any of dozens and dozens of hours of tutorials, comment “Patreon” and I’ll share the link to my page!

It’s been a lot of fun, so here’s to three more years i hope!

A painting from yesterday. It was mostly overcast, and I was able to work o n this piece for almost four hours straight,...
14/07/2026

A painting from yesterday. It was mostly overcast, and I was able to work o n this piece for almost four hours straight, until I got rained out. By the end, I’m not sure if I was even improving it at all certain point.

Yesterday I learned that when strong storms blow wheat over and make swaths of it collapse, it’s called lodging. That was the main focus of this painting. I may have accentuated it a tiny bit, but it was already beautiful on its own.

Most of the fields here are pretty rectangular, so they don’t always have the best compositions. I am considering making some larger work from these studies here in Poland. But I always say that, and then get distracted. I guess we shall see.

Lastly, don’t forget that if you’d like to give a home to one of these little paintings, once or twice a year I have a big studio sale on my website. I don’t like selling and shipping things around, so it’s been easier to do that. And in the lead up to the sale, I’m really seeing high-rise images digital catalogue, usually a video preview on the YouTube. All of that plus an early access is sent to those that are signed up for the collectors newsletter, and it’s the best way to make sure you don’t miss out 💁‍♂️ comment “collect” and I could send you details!

Here is a painting from today. It was raining today, so we sought a spot where we could paint without getting soaked. In...
12/07/2026

Here is a painting from today. It was raining today, so we sought a spot where we could paint without getting soaked. In the end, this piece was about four hours.

There was some crazy perspective from a very wide angle. My solution was to try to split the difference by having a more subtle third point perspective going upwards, and a curvilinear shift towards the sides.

I’m debating how much longer to stay and paint in Poland. What I really want to do are more paintings of fields, but hopefully the weather will get better. Whenever these paintings become available, be the first to know by joining the collectors newsletter to get news updates, hired images, digital catalog, and early access ahead of each sale! Comment “collect” and I can share the link to sign up!

I’ve been in Paris teaching the last Europe workshop for this year. We were fortunate with the heatwave subsiding right ...
07/07/2026

I’ve been in Paris teaching the last Europe workshop for this year. We were fortunate with the heatwave subsiding right before the start of class. This is a personal painting done the day after class.

For better or worse, I’ve naturally become an early riser, if I don’t have black out blinds. It’s nice, because I’m able to get out on the streets of Paris and start paint while the city is just waking up and the temps are still cool.

To join the next workshops in Europe, the best way to be the first to find out is to join the workshop newsletter. This past workshop was terrific

05/07/2026

A start on a painting of Saint Sulpice. This was the fourth and last day of the Paris workshop. Towards the end, there are more typical demos, after we’ve covered more of the basics, had some practice, and built up enough context to not be too bored while watching me paint for a whole morning 😬

I know I said you don’t need to know a lot about perspective, and looking at the video a few things are wonky - but it’s not beyond repair!

Generally, I do think that we get farther with painting architecture by focusing on the flat shapes - specifically looking at positive and negative shapes, alignments of points, and comparative measurement.

by looking at which points are aligned vertically, across the painting, you can actually get pretty accurate recession. For instance, the top of the tower along with the building to the left and the obelisk on the corner on the right, are all vertically aligned, meaning they’re the same height in the painting.

Another thing or shoot angles, where if I take an angle of one of the roofs in perspective, and I imagine that line continues, I look for where that angle would shoot through and intersect on another part of a building. All of these things ultimately helped me achieve a very accurate 2-D representation of a very complicated 3-D scene.

It’s been a fun four days. If you want to join next years workshops, the best way to be the first to hear about them when I schedule them is to join my newsletter - sometimes I also take suggestions and requests!

29/06/2026

In the spirit of laziness, I am continuing my experiment with low effort content. Jokes aside, I had a blast while painting this earlier today. The weather was perfect, as was the subject. About that color mixing tip….

This is what I call painting in raking light. I’ve tried explaining it before, but I feel like it may be confusing unless it’s demonstrated.

It’s something I stumbled onto after years of painting.

Many people say you should never paint in the light, and only set up in shadow.

But I find that setting up in raking light - only having a tiny bit of sunlight on your canvas - actually makes things way easier!

When you see some of my posts blending perfectly into the scene, it’s because I carefully control the angle of the light falling onto my painting.

And for that, it’s easily done with a box like mine.

By the way, I may be partnering with my brother to start making them again soon. Stay tuned!

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