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"Mastering Watercolor
Portraiture"  DVD

    Seven unforgettable days of
    painting and touring the Italian
    landscape and figure for artists and
    travel enthusiasts of all levels.
    Explore the towns, museums and
    vineyards of Tuscany, as you paint
    side by side with nationally
    acclaimed watercolorist Mary
    Whyte.  We will stay at the
    Tuscan Renaissance Center with
    stunning views of the Tuscan hills,
    while enjoying first class meals
    and wine, all within a short
    distance to historic cities like
    Florence and Sienna.  Enjoy a full
    morning of one-on-one instruction,
    then choose to spend your
    afternoons painting on your own,
    or exploring with Mary Whyte on
    fully guided tours.  Interested in a
    regional cooking class or wine
    tasting?  We will do it all! Register
    early, as Whyte's classes always
    fill quickly.  Don't miss this trip
    and class of a lifetime! .
"Painting Portraits and
Figures in Watercolor" Book
Mary Whyte

Landscapes and Figures, plein air
Beginning to Advanced Watercolor

May 4 - 11 , 2013  
Tuscany, Italy

Only 1 space available
Male Roommate Only Please
Cost $3395 for painters and
$3095 for non-painters

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    MARY WHYTE has gained national recognition for
    her figurative watercolors.  Most noted for her
    depictions of the African-American Gullah women of
    Johns Island, South Carolina, near where she lives, in
    recent years Whyte has turned her attention to
    paintings of southern laborers.  Whyte’s exhibition of
    fifty paintings and drawings called “Working South”
    began touring several museums March 2011, and was
    the subject of feature on CBS Sunday Morning.

    Mary Whyte is the author of several books about
    painting, and her work has been featured in numerous
    periodicals and magazines including International
    Artist, Artist Magazine, American Artist and American
    Art Collector.  Her work has been included in many
    national exhibitions including shows with the Butler
    Museum of American Art, the American Watercolor
    Society, the Greenville County Museum of Art in
    Greenville, South Carolina, and the Allied Artists of
    America.

    Whyte is a faculty member of the Portrait Society of
    America, and continues to teach painting workshops
    nationwide.  Her work can be viewed at Coleman Fine
    Art in Charleston, South Carolina.
    Whyte has illustrated over a dozen children’s books,
    having several projects published by Chronicle Books
    and Dial Books. Many of the illustrations are now in
    collections of private individuals and institutions
    including the Mazza Collection of Children’s Book
    illustrations of the University of Findlay in Ohio.

    In 1991, Mary Whyte and her husband Smith Coleman,
    moved to an island on the South Carolina coast and
    developed close friendships within the African-
    American community. Soon after her arrival and quite
    by accident, she met Alfreda LaBoard, and her intrepid
    group of senior citizens who gather weekly to make
    quilts and socialize in a small rural church. Long time
    residents of Johns Island and descendants of slaves,
    these women would change her life and her paintings
    in astonishing and unexpected ways. Mary Whyte’s
    book, Alfreda’s World (Wyrick & Company, 2003), is
    about the shared experiences and values that deepened
    the friendship between the two remarkable women.
    The story is told in the touching watercolors and
    drawings that the artist created over a ten-year period.

Class Outline
    This is an all-inclusive workshop excepting transportation to/from Italy and a few lunches.
    Activities are for all except as noted.

    May 4 - Arrive Florence by 2:00 pm, transportation to TRC, dinner, TRC orientation, briefing: AITM & Mary Whyte

    May 5 - Breakfast, class 9-1, lunch, wine tasting, dinner at local vineyard

    May 6 - Breakfast, class 9-1, small group cooking lesson (non-painters), Sienna, no host lunch, museums,
    photography, shopping, dinner

    May 7 - Breakfast, Florence day trip, Mary will lead tours at: The Uffizi , the Vasari Corridor & Galleria dell’
    Academia, no host lunch, dinner

    May 8 - Breakfast, class 9–1, lunch, visit local artisans & hill towns shopping, sight seeing, dinner, Mary evening demo

    May 9 - Breakfast, Pisa/Lucca day trip, no host lunch, museums, dinner

    May 10 - Breakfast, class 9-1, no host lunch, Chianti Wine tour & tasting or pasta lesson, dinner, live concert

    May 11 - Breakfast, depart for Sienna Train Station