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Category: Events

Painting in Old Town Manassas

6 May, 2008 (15:32) | Events, Paint! Manassas, Painting, Watercolor | 2 comments

Today I spent most of the day parked on the corner of Center Street in Old Town Manassas.  From my wonderful seat I was able to capture this 18×24 value sketch (on rough watercolor paper) and add some watercolor before the sun came up and ruined my light.  I did get about 3 hours of [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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