Featured Artist
Patricia J Schmidt
Artist’s Statement
Art has many forms, categories, mediums, and surfaces to create upon. Drawing is the true backbone of design; it creates a structured composition. Method: the more you draw, the more your skill improves and trains the eye to observe what is really there. This falls into values, negative space, mood, texture, and perspective. The next expression is working with color, its temperature,
intensity, hue, and harmony. We each see color differently. I identify color with tube paint, like being aware of the infinite
colors in nature. Observing the landscape (Colorado), I find the sky most times to be watercolor’s Antwerp blue. Burnt Sienna and Raw Sienna are earth tones; other tube colors create moods of warm, hot, and cool in landscape areas. A certain palette does not meet everyone’s eye; it’s just an instrument of guidance to create your own by what you experiment with, as we each see color differently. There is no earthly substitute for the creative vision seen personally. I’ve slowly acquired a technique that has become
recognizable to those who have purchased my work. That is my desired intention. It’s genius when you can take your painting talent beyond technique, or just to simple beauty. It isn’t only the artist holding a brush and vision who paints the picture; it’s those who look and see the power, beauty, the strength, and the passion who bring brushstrokes and color to life.
Patricia’s Bio
Growing up in a small town in Northwest Missouri, where I attended grades one through six. I loved to draw and paint at an early age and created my own paper dolls, some still stuck away in my archives.
My family moved to Southern California, where I began the seventh grade. I graduated from High School with an Art Scholarship. I chose to try the Kansas City School of Art and Design, which was interrupted by marriage and starting a family. An opportunity to create again came with a job developing designs of floor plan structure for utilities in new homes. Another job with scaled drafting for engineers after their rough concept of utilities sharing conduit in a freeway overpass. My husband’s job brought us to Colorado, I found more time to spend on furthering my art endeavor in workshops with well-established artists.
I express my painting technique in several mediums: watercolor, oil, and pastel. Portraits, landscape, still-life, floral, and abstract, some receiving awards. Some commissioned pieces are in private collections, a couple in other countries.
Two portraits commissioned by the Palmer Lake Historical Society of Lucreia Vaile and Marian McDonald hang in the Palmer Lake Museum. I gifted the Museum a portrait of Dave Higby. A portrait of Grace Best in Palmer Lake Elementary School.
I joined the Palmer Lake Little Art Group in the seventies, taught painting workshops for a number of years in the Tri-Lakes area. I try to paint and exhibit my work as often as possible. After several years as a realtor, now retired, I plan to become familiar with new products to create with. I’m looking forward to meeting more artists and being available to encourage and support my artist friends.
Warmest Regards
Patricia J Schmidt
