This 5–day intensive workshop is an introduction to linear perspective and will cover the essentials of perspective: including one–, two– and three–point perspective; and circles in perspective. Exercises include projecting a skull in two–point perspective, still life, and portrait drawing. The principles presented in this workshop provide a means from which the artist may improve independently in other classes or in his or her own work. Classes are limited to 12 students.
Patrick Connors is a 1980 graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Certificate Program. There, he studied primarily under Arthur DeCosta and was awarded the Perspective Prize. In 1982 he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
His work is exhibited internationally and in the past decade has been in solo or group venues at the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, New York Academy of Art, Butler Institute of American Art, Woodmere Art Museum, Meredith Long & Company, Pierrepont Fine Arts, Arcadia Gallery, and Hirschl & Adler Galleries.
His paintings, drawings, designs, and murals are included and displayed in national and international collections, both private & public.
Awards include an Oxford University Summer Residency Fellowship in painting and anatomy [2002], a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant for painting [1998], the Samuel D. Gross/Thomas Eakins Award for Significant Contributions to Medicine and its Surrounding Culture by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia [2007]; and was the select alternate for a Senior Research Fulbright Scholarship for Italy [1999].
He teaches in the Graduate School of the New York Academy of Art, Studio Incamminati, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Institute of Classical Architecture & Art: Beaux–Arts Atelier & Rome programs. Among the institutions at which he has lectured are Yale University Art Gallery, Water Street Atelier, Drexel School of Medicine, Classical America: Philadelphia Chapter, the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He was a visiting artist at the Long Island Academy of Fine Art and the Savannah College of Art and Design. In October 2012
He will present a lecture at the Representational Art Conference., Ventura , CA.
Connors’ publications include: Through the Picture Plane: The Poetry in the Pictorial Space of Thomas Eakins, The Oil Sketch and Representationist Thought in the Philadelphia School of Painting, The Legacy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and has been a consultant including monographs for Thomas Eakins, Maxfield Parrish and provided commentary on two books on Brook Taylor. His most
recent publication will debut September 2012: American Artist’s DVD on linear perspective.
Connors is featured in the November 2012 issue of American Artist Magazine and the January December issue of Plein Air Magazine.
Cost: $700 Early registration by June 30, 2013
Cost: $750 regular registration after June 30, 2013
