watercolor and drawing classes
Yay! In-person workshops are back! Stay healthy and take care. Wishing you all the best! Happy Painting! ~ Patty
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BRUSH EXERCISES with WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP
10 am - 4 pm, Saturday & Sunday, June 21 & 22, 2025 (DATE CHANGE from MARCH 15 & 16 to JUNE 21 & 22) at Currents Gallery Back Door Studio, McMinnville, Oregon
Tuition: $225 (includes pre-printed water control exercise paper, handouts, contact paper, & Magic Eraser)
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Step-by-step instruction to train your watercolor brushes! Practice exercises for these basic watercolor techniques: controlling water to paint flat and graded washes; masking fluid application; painting a background; and which brushes to use for each task. Great watercolor tips! All levels of experience welcome. Please join us!
SOFT FOCUS WATERCOLOR BACKGROUND FLORALS
10 am - 4 pm, Sunday, Monday & Tuesday, July13, 14 & 15, 2025
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology on the Oregon Coast
Tuition: $370 (includes rose drawing, reference photos, step-by-step handout and more)
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With step-by-step instruction, paint a luscious, soft-focus watercolor background with wet into wet techniques on 300# Arches cold pressed watercolor paper . . . my favorite paper! Learn my special transfer technique for disappearing pink guidelines on the practice rose. For luminous rose leaves, learn great tips on masking the leaf veins and glazing for glowing color. Then be inspired to use these new techniques to create your own floral painting of your favorite flower during studio painting time. Participants should have some prior watercolor experience.
WATER CONTROL for WATERCOLOR
10 am - 4 pm, Wednesday, July16, 2025
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology on the Oregon Coast
Tuition: $155 (includes pre-printed water control exercise paper, contact paper, & Magic Eraser)
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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.
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.