watercolor and drawing classes
Wishing you a wonderful summer full of adventures and 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 with WATERCOLOR PENCIL ROSE
10 am - 4 pm, Monday & Tuesday, July 27 & 28, 2026
Catlin Gabel Community Arts Program, Portland, Oregon
Tuition: $255 (includes reference rose photo, drawing to transfer, step-by-step handouts, and class exercises)
To REGISTER and more workshop information (scroll down webpage)
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 your rose painting with watercolor pencils. Easily add a brilliant yellow glow to the Peace rose painting with another great watercolor pencil technique. Also create a Watercolor Pencil Chart for reference. No drawing skills are necessary. A rose drawing to transfer to your watercolor paper, a reference photo, warm-up exercises, and step-by-step color illustrations will be provided. Have fun at this 2-day immersion into floral painting with demonstrations, plenty of painting time, and a PowerPoint presentation of several of my floral watercolors to see the steps of my painting process. Please join us!
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)
To REGISTER and more workshop information (scroll down the class page)
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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