**TAKE YOUR WATERCOLORS TO THE NEXT LEVEL 🎨💦**   Meet Linda Whynman — San Miguel’s own watercolor pro. She lives and paints right here in El Obraje, and her work hangs at Galería San Francisco in Fábrica La Aurora. Yep, she’s the real deal. Once a month, Linda opens her home studio for a 3-day deep dive, 9:30 to 3. But mark your calendar for this one: ✨ Paint San Miguel Your Way – Special Session ✨ When: Friday, August 15 | 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM ✨ Paint San Miguel Your Way – Special Session ✨ 📍 When: Friday, August 15 | 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM 📍 Where: Instituto Allende 👩‍🎨👨‍🎨 Who: 18+ with a little watercolor experience 💰 Cost: FREE 🎨 Only 8 seats 👩‍🎨👨‍🎨 📌 Got your own supplies? Bring ’em. Don’t have any? No stress, we’ve got you covered.   We’re painting a personalized Vista of San Miguel — no cookie-cutter stuff. Linda keeps groups tiny — max 8 people — so you actually get her attention, tips, and all the good tricks.   **What’s the vibe?** Watercolor is wild, unpredictable, and totally addictive. Linda will walk you through the basics, the techniques, and the “how the heck did that happen” moments. You’ll leave with a painting you’re actually stoked to hang up.   **Why Linda?** She’s repped by the #1 gallery in San Miguel — Galería San Francisco. She knows watercolor inside out and makes the learning curve feel way less steep.   Ready to make some water magic? Spots go fast because small group = big learning. 📧 Hit up Linda: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])   Let’s get messy and make something awesome. 🌈🖌️   ***Linda Whynman*** *Linda Whynman is an artist whose work is shaped by a lifelong curiosity about place, atmosphere, and the quiet emotional currents that connect people to the landscapes around them. Working primarily in watercolor, she is drawn to the medium’s balance of spontaneity and control—its ability to capture both fleeting light and lasting memory. Her paintings often reflect a sensitivity to mood, movement, and the subtle beauty found in everyday scenes, whether in natural settings, travel experiences, or intimate moments of observation.* *Whynman s artistic journey has been enriched through travel and cultural exchange, particularly between the United States and Mexico. She has exhibited her work in regional shows and community exhibitions, and is honored to present her painting as part of the Watercolor Society exhibition in Mexico City. Showing work in this vibrant cultural capital is especially meaningful, as Mexico’s rich artistic traditions, color, architecture, and sense of history continue to inspire her creative vision.* *At the heart of Whynman’s practice is a desire to create paintings that invite pause and reflection. She hopes viewers will find not only visual pleasure in her work, but also a sense of connection—perhaps to a memory, a place they have known, or a feeling that words cannot easily express. Her ongoing goal as an artist is to keep learning, experimenting, and deepening her relationship with watercolor while sharing beauty and authenticity through paint.* *For Whynman art is both discovery and conversation: a way of seeing the world more clearly, and of offering that vision to others with generosity and joy.* *[whynmanarts.org](http://whynmanarts.org)* *Represented by #1 Gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Galeria San Francisco*