MAG Artist’s Blog

Paint! Manassas wrapped up today. It was a whopping success! I’ve updated the Paint! page if you want to see some of the work exhibited during this event.
Artist Leonard Justinian was our judge. Here are the winners of this year’s Paint! Manassas:
1st place: Sunny Spot (Manassas Battlefield), acrylic by Michele Frantz

2nd place: Noon Train, acrylic by [...]

Take a look at the “Paint! Manassas” page if you’d like to see what some of our participating artists have been up to. Several paintings posted so far, hope to see more soon! — michele frantz, show coordinator

I am back from North Carolina and not to be out done by Michele in Paint! Manassas, I am busy painting the town away, so to speak.  Above is a watercolor and graphite sketch of the Manassas Old Presbyterian Church I have been messing with tonight.  I started this as an 11×14 very wet-in-wet painting [...]

 Not to be outdone (yeah, right) by that pesky Rob, I have now started more paintings for “Paint! Manassas” than I can count. But will I finish any of them in time? The suspense is killing me…. michele frantz
 
   

May 10, the day of the long-awaited “paint-out” which officially kicked off our 2nd annual “Paint! Manassas.” Alas, the weather did not favor us; damp and windy. As a result, not as many people in town as we hoped. Still, about 2 dozen artists braved the chill and rain to begin their creations, and I managed to [...]

It rained today.  I started off with Selina, from the Manassas Art Guild, in Clifton Virginia and I fully intended to finish my Old Clifton General Store painting.  Did I mention that it rained today?  No sooner did I get my french easel set up and it started again
As a back up plan we [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]