Instructor: Patty Schmidt

Patricia has been painting and drawing for over 35 years. She is a Signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society; a charter member of the Colored Pencil Society of America; a member of the Colored Pencil Society of America Oregon District Chapter, the Watercolor Society of Oregon, the Oregon Society of Artists and SPLASH, a professional artist group. Her paintings are published in Splash Retrospective: 20 Years of Watercolor Excellence (2013), Splash 14 (2013), Splash 12 (2011) and the Watercolor magazine (2005). She has taught watercolor and colored pencil classes as adjunct faculty for Mt. Hood and Portland Community colleges as well as workshops at Sitka Center for the Arts on the Oregon Coast, the Portland area, Kaiser, and Corvallis, Oregon.  Her artwork can be seen at the Portland Art Museum’s Rental Sales Gallery.