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    Join Mary Whyte for an
    extraordinary workshop in
    watercolor in Laguna Beach,
    California or Greenville, SC. Using
    live models, Mary will demonstrate
    and guide you through the
    techniques of planning your
    compositions, drawing, mixing
    color and creating great
    backgrounds. She will show you
    how to work with the model,
    avoid mistakes and give personal
    critiques and great tips for
    marketing your work.  Mary’s
    work is in many corporate and
    museum collections, and has been
    featured in International Artist,
    American Artist, Artist Magazine,
    and American Art Collector
    magazines. She has been awarded
    the Portrait Society of America's
    Gold Medal.
"Working South" Book
Mary Whyte

The Portrait and The Figure  
All Levels Welcome
watercolor - studio

March 18 - 20, 2019
Laguna Beach, CA
July 9 - 11, 2019
Greenville, SC

$1095
Includes model fees

Registration  >>>


    Class Outline

    This is a studio workshop with three days with live models.

    Mary will demonstrate each morning and then offer support at individual easels for the remainder of the workshop day.

    We will plan a class dinner on day 2 of our workshop. This is an optional no-host dinner, but great fun to get
    together, outside of the workshop, and spend some more quality time. We will talk about this once we are all together
    in Santa Fe.

    MARY WHYTE is a teacher and author whose figurative watercolor paintings have earned international recognition.  
    A resident of Johns Island, South Carolina, Whyte garners much of her inspiration from the Gullah descendants of
    coastal Carolina slaves who number among her most prominent subjects.  In 2003, Whyte’s paintings of her Gullah
    friends culminated in a museum exhibition and book called Alfreda’s World.  

    In 2011, Whyte’s ground breaking exhibition Working South opened with fifty works at the Greenville County
    Museum of Art in South Carolina.  Four additional museums signed on to exhibit the large-scale, sensitively rendered
    watercolors depicting blue-collar workers in industries vanishing throughout the south.  Whyte’s unrivaled mastery of
    the watercolor medium, along with this exhibition, was featured on CBS Sunday Morning.  Her book, Working South,
    references each painting and sketch with background stories of the Southern people and places beautifully portrayed
    within the exhibition.  

    Down Bohicket Road, released November 2012, is her comprehensive book of paintings completed over a twenty-year
    period on Johns Island.  It is a rich, visual tribute to friendship that crosses cultural and racial borders and reaches
    straight to the heart.  

    Whyte was one of ten watercolor artists in the world invited to the China and Foreign Countries International
    Watercolour Summit at the Nanning Art Gallery in Nanning China, October 2013.  Simultaneously, The Butler Institute
    of American Art showcased twenty of Whyte’s major works in a solo exhibition named after her recently released
    biography titled, More Than A Likeness, The Enduring Art of Mary Whyte, written by Martha R. Severens and
    published by University of South Carolina Press.  

    November 2013 Whyte was featured in a solo exhibition at the National Arts Club in New York City.  This exhibition
    was extended due to the overwhelming positive public response.  Other exhibitions have included The World
    Watermedia Exposition in Thailand, 2014.

    Whyte is the author of Painting Portraits and Figures in Watercolor, Watercolor for the Serious Beginner, and An
    Artist’s Way of Seeing.  She continues to teach watercolor nationwide and in Europe.   

    She was awarded the Portrait Society of America's Gold Medal in April of 2016.