Stewart White is an award winning artist with some spectacular paintings. It was so difficult to chose only one image. This is perfect for the start of beach season here in Charleston. This is a painting that you can look at for a long time and still see new and interesting tidbits! The colors are spectacular and the lifeguard waving those flags is so perfect. Stewart paints using watercolor panel, and he paint plein air (outdoors).

OutdoorPainter.com has written a fabulous article about Stewart that showcases two of his latest awards, one being the $15,000 at the Plein Air Convention – woohoo Stewart! Congratulations! Here is another wonderful article about Stewart from OutdoorPainter.com!

For those of you who are interested… Stewart will be teaching a workshop this August… here is the info (located about 15 minutes from Annapolis, Maryland).

Chesapeake Fine Art Studio going to have Stewart White to teach a 2-day workshop, Aug 1, and 2. the cost is $375. for more info. 410-200-8019.
www.chesapeakefineartstudio.com

Read a blip about Stewart from his website:

Stewart White is a watercolorist from Baltimore, Maryland. He is one of the rare plein air painters using the medium of watercolor. His background in architectural illustration adds to his skill set and his paintings reflect his knowledge of good design. Stewart’s paintings have the pleasing combination of good structure with a painterly style. He is a transparent watercolorist  in the purest tradition of watercolor painters. Where as watercolor expresses its nature as fluid  oil paint is stiff and seems to want to be expressed in a thick and buttery way. 

He studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and after serving 3 years in the US Army he returned to graduate from UC Berkeley with a BFA. He works as an architectural illustrator and designer. His watercolors both in his architecture illustrations and in painting competitions have won him many awards. In June 2009 he was invited to teach a workshop in Paris on his techniques for architectural watercolors to an organization of architects. He continues to teach in Paris every other year. 

Stewart is a member of the Mid-Atlantic Plein-Air Painters Association (MAPAPA). He exhibits his paintings in juried and gallery exhibitions on the East Coast and in Plein Air competitions. He is the Grand Prize Winner of the prestigious Easton Plein air Festival (2009) He was a featured artist in McBride Gallery’s June 2009 exhibit: “Rising Stars: 10 Artists to Watch.”  Stewart is a member of the American Impressionists Society(AIS), a signature member of the National Watercolor Society ( NWS),

The American Watercolor Society (AWS) and past President (2012) of The American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI).

Image via StewartWhite.com with the artist’s permission

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