watercolor and drawing classes
I’m very excited to offer a NEW Glowing Daffodils Home Bundle and more Spring and Summer classes . . .
Wishing you all very Happy Painting!
~ Patty
2 0 2 6 IN-PERSON CLASSES and mailed to you HOME BUNDLES
GLOWING DAFFODILS HOME BUNDLE
In the comfort of your own home, with the Glowing Daffodils Home Bundle’s step-by-step instructions, on your own time schedule, have fun learning how to paint bright yellow daffodils in glowing sunlight and a soft-focus background with watercolor and watercolor pencil! Learn Patty’s special technique for yellow Daffodil lines so that no gray pencil lines will show through the yellow watercolor washes. No need to travel, save money on gas!
Here is what’s included in the Glowing Daffodils Home Bundle:
Eight pages of step-by-step detailed instructions with color illustrations
Daffodils drawing to transfer to your watercolor paper and transferring instructions
Yellow Vellum transferring sheet and transferring instructions for yellow Daffodil lines
Daffodils reference photo
How much watercolor pigment & how much water handout exercise
Glowing Daffodils Supply List
Bonus: Package of five Daffodil Notecards
Email or call Patty if you have any questions while painting the Daffodils practice painting
Cost is $65 with FREE SHIPPING
WATERCOLOR ROSE
10 am - 4 pm, Saturday & Sunday, April 25 & 26, 2026
Oregon Art Center, Portland, Oregon
Members Tuition: $255 Non-members Tuition: $300 (includes reference photo, drawing to transfer, step-by-step handouts, and vellum pink transfer sheet)
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Come paint a rose with Patricia Schmidt! With step-by-step instruction, paint a luscious, soft-focus watercolor background with wet-into-wet techniques on 300# Arches cold press paper. Learn her special transfer technique for disappearing pink guidelines on the practice rose painting. For luminous rose leaves, learn great tips on masking the tiny leaf veins, plus glazing layers for glowing color and shadows. Enjoy viewing several of Patricia's floral watercolors from start to finish showing these techniques and some variations in a PowerPoint presentation. Please join us!
WATERCOLOR PENCIL ROSE
10 am - 4 pm, Saturday, May 9, 2026
Keizer Art Association, Keizer, Oregon
Tuition: $125 (includes Rose reference photo, drawing and step-by-step handouts)
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Enjoy the best of both worlds! With step-by-step instruction, paint with watercolor for a soft-focus background and then add fine line details to the rose with watercolor pencils. Easily add a brilliant yellow glow to the Peace rose painting with another great watercolor pencil technique. All levels of painting experience are welcome!
Warm up your sketchbook skills for the summer by drawing a Beach Bungalow house with a variety of black ink pen lines and textures. With step-by-step instruction have fun drawing various pen lines to complete the house plus learn more about drawing landscape foliage. Then enjoy adding your own personal touches to your drawing. Create a reference watercolor pencil chart and learn how beautifully watercolor pencils add color washes and splatter texture to ink drawings. All levels of drawing & painting experience are welcome! Supply list & instructions emailed upon registration.
SKETCHING A BEACH BUNGALOW
10 am - 4 pm, Saturday, May 23, 2026
Currents Back Door Studio, McMinnville, Oregon
Tuition: $125 (includes prepared paper, reference photo and handouts)
To REGISTER and more workshop information (scroll down the class page)
SALTY WATERCOLOR TEXTURES
10 am - 4 pm, Saturday, July 18, 2026
Currents Back Door Studio, McMinnville, Oregon
Tuition: $125 (includes geranium drawing paper, reference photo and step-by-step handouts)
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Paint the GLOW of sun on a geranium in a clay pot with step-by-step instruction in this fun watercolor workshop! Learn a new transfer technique for painting the dark and light leaf patterns. With wet into wet dots of color, paint the soft impression of flower shapes. Create fabulous textures with a variety of salts for a wonderful background. All levels of experience are welcome! Supply list & instructions emailed upon registration.
WATER CONTROL TECHNIQUES for WATERCOLOR
10 am - 4 pm, Monday, August 17, 2026
Sitka Center for the Arts & Ecology on the Oregon Coast
Tuition: $165 (includes pre-printer exercise paper, contact paper, Mr. Clean Magic Sponge)
In this watercolor workshop, participants will learn how to control water and pigment to achieve better results in their paintings. The workshop covers essential techniques such as painting a flat watercolor wash and painting the background around a shape protected with masking fluid. It also includes practice exercises on lifting techniques to lighten watercolor or rescue a shape in a painted area. Additional tips will be provided on using masking fluid effectively and caring for watercolor brushes, helping artists of all levels improve their watercolor skills.
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Patricia Schmidt
has been painting with watercolor for over thirty years and is known for her hyper-realistic paintings alive with color and drenched with light.
She is a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society and the Watercolor Society of Oregon; a charter member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, a member of the Oregon Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society, the Oregon Society of Artists and SPLASH, a professional artist group. Her paintings are included in the watercolor books “Splash Retrospective: 20 years of Contemporary Watercolor Excellence“ (2013), “Splash 14: Light and Color” (2013), “Splash 12: Celebrating Artistic Vision” (2011) and the Winter 2005 “Watercolor“ magazine. To view her paintings, please visit the Portland Art Museum’s Rental Sales Gallery at 1237 SW 10th Avenue, Portland, Oregon.
Patricia has taught watercolor, drawing and colored pencil classes as adjunct faculty for several colleges as well as classes at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology on the Oregon Coast.
She has illustrated a children’s book “A Dolphin Named Destiny” (2024) with watercolored pen & ink drawings. She has also illustrated greeting cards for six greeting card companies and pen & ink designs for a rubber stamp company.
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