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Promoting the appreciation of art and fine crafts through workshops, lectures, demonstrations & exhibits.

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Month: April, 2008

MAG Members - add your ART to the Buy MAG Artwork page!

28 April, 2008 (18:20) | Announcements, New Features, Selling Art | No comments

MAG is using a free online selling service called ArtByUs to promote and sell MAG Member’s art online.  If any member desires to have their art work listed under the Buy MAG Artwork Page, simply go to ArtByUs and register, then email me with your user ID.  After that it is up to you to list [...]

Reminder about Posting

28 April, 2008 (07:19) | Announcements | No comments

Please remember to sign your name to any posting that you make to this blog. That way people will know who the posting was made by. This is as simple as putting your name at the end of the posting. If you are acting in an official capacity for MAG (i.e. Announcements, [...]

New Video Posted

28 April, 2008 (07:15) | Announcements, Group Meeting, New Features, Videos | No comments

A new video has been posted to the “MAG Videos” web page. This video is the video of Sandra Fox and her presentation on “Mandalas”. The video is 1 hour and 46 minutes long, about 260MB.
Please check it out.
Shane C. Williams
President, Manassas Art Guild.

More about eARTh

27 April, 2008 (13:05) | Announcements, eARTh 2 | 1 comment

I’ve put a few more images from our eARTh exhibit on the eARTh 2 page. — mich

New Feature!

26 April, 2008 (22:43) | Announcements, Group Meeting, New Features, Please Critique, Videos | No comments

Please check out the all new “MAG Videos” page of the MAG Blog. This will be a place for MAG to post videos of meetings, special events and training videos of and by MAG members.
Currently, the presentation by Dale Glasgow, “Fine Art from the Soul”, has been posted for all to see. This [...]

eARTh 2.0 - It’s a Wrap

26 April, 2008 (20:12) | Events, eARTh 2 | No comments

What a beautiful day in Old Town Manassas to celebrate eARTh 2.0 as part of the larger Historic Manassas Inc celebration.  As you can see from the pictures we had a great turn out of both artists and art speculators.   We had over 50 significant original art works and many other items for display and purchase.  [...]

Another day, another Paint-Out

23 April, 2008 (17:52) | Acrylic, En plein air, Oil, Paint! Manassas, Watercolor | 5 comments

MAG members Rob Burkhard, Mary Ellen Semat and myself took advantage of the glorious spring weather to “paint out” at the Manassas train station. On the left, that’s Rob and Mary Ellen (I’ll let you guess which is which) hard at work, and on the right, Rob applies oil paint to his board with a palette [...]

Warning — unknown artist posting

22 April, 2008 (13:50) | Announcements | 3 comments

Just want to warn everyone that a stranger is posting work on our “Buy MAG Art” page. This person is not a member of MAG, and we can’t vouch for him. He is posting under the name “tcartist.” Hopefully we’ll figure out how to remove him soon.
–michele frantz

Earth Day Paint Out!

22 April, 2008 (12:39) | Acrylic, En plein air, Paint! Manassas | 1 comment

Charlotte Pavone & I braved the chilly wet weather to spend a couple of hours painting in Old Town Manassas. I am hoping to get some art ready for the Train Festival in June, so I worked on this acrylic painting of the train station, which I had started about a year ago and never [...]

Apple Nuptial - Watercolor by Michele Frantz

7 April, 2008 (19:39) | Painting, Watercolor | No comments

This one involved a lot of dripping!