You will meet friends, neighbors, and artists ~ many of the galleries have artists showing their artistic skills while you watch. Music and lite summer fare add to the festivities. Yellow banners are flying at all of the galleries - 22 venues to visit.

Stewart White is the featured artist with a new exhibit at McBride Gallery called "Winning Watercolors" ~ He will be demonstrating his skills ~ Rain or Shine!

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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, using no white or other mediums in the purest tradition of watercolor painters.

He studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and graduated 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.

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 was a featured artist in McBride Gallery’s June 2009 exhibit: “Rising Stars: 10 Artists to Watch.”