About this Workshop

Linear and Aerial Perspective simply explained

In this two day workshop, you will learn and practice the key aspects of both linear and aerial perspective – essential skills that help create better accuracy and realism in your drawing and paintings.

Linear Perspective – relates to the line drawing of objects – e.g.  to make houses/windows/doors look ‘correct’ from whatever vantage point you’re seeing them – you may be looking ‘straight over’ at them, or ‘looking down’ on them from the top of a hill, or ‘looking up’ at them from the bottom of the hill – each will be drawn differently and this important workshop will explain how to do each, and you will practice this and other essential exercises. Enniskerry houses and rooflines are a great example of this complexity and you will get to try your skills outside in one of many exercises, weather permitting.

Aerial Perspective – is about how Distance and Atmosphere affect your paintings – being able to paint ‘Distance’ is essential for the landscape painter.  The Colours, Tones and several other aspects of every object is affected by how far they are away they are, and you must change how you paint distant objects accordingly. 

You will learn how to make all these changes through the painting exercises over the two days.

Together, these two skills – being able to apply Linear and Aerial Perspective – will help you paint more accurate, realistic and quality landscape paintings, as well as being useful for other painting genres – interiors, even still lifes.

This is a rare opportunity to learn and practice these skills, as this workshop is not run every year, so book early as places are limited

Material list sent on upon sign up.

Meet John

John Dinan is a professional artist who has been teaching art for over 20 years, in Ireland, France and Italy. He is an exhibiting artist in many of Ireland’s leading galleries in both the Republic and the north of Ireland. He has exhibited in RHA, Oireachtas and many solo and group exhibitions. He is a member of the Dublin Painting & Sketching Club, and of the Back Lane Painters, and is a founder member of the Portmarnock Art Group.

His landscapes, portraits and still lifes are held internationally in corporate and private collections.

He especially loves painting en plein air, and has run outdoor workshops and been a prize-winner at the international Art in the Open festival in Wexford. He paints in a varied range of styles, but his work is usually recognised through good drawing, strong compositions and bright colours. His workshops always receive great feedback for the extensive tuition, complete sharing of experience and insights, helpful one-to-one advice and the encouraging atmosphere he maintains in his classes. He lives in Cross, in south Mayo, near the village of Cong where he and his wife have had an art gallery for over 12 years.