MAG Artist’s Blog

Two new videos has been posted to the “MAG Videos” web page. One video is the video of Patty Rice and her presentation on “Portraiture”. The video is 1 hour and 42 minutes long, about 250MB.
The second video is of Michele Frantz and her presentation on “Using a Limited Pallete.” The video is 1 [...]

Thursday night we had the monthly Manassas Art Guild membership meeting with our very own artist, Michele Frantz, doing a limited palette lesson and demonstration. Michele went over the advantages of using a limited palette (less paint = more $ in your pocket) and the ways she uses a limited palette to achieve consistent [...]

Tonight was the May 2008 MAG monthly membership meeting and we were treated to an exceptional demonstration by local portraiture artist, Patty McMahon Rice.  In under two hours Patty demonstrated how to do an under-painting on canvas which can serve as the tonal foundation or reference for the portrait.  Patty spent time and attention covering pitfalls, hard [...]

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.

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 [...]

Tonight was the Manassas Art Guild art critique night.  This was the first meeting we have had since November and it was good to get together and show off art, talk about the upcoming spring art events that are planned, and just plain enjoy each others company.  Please click on the thumbnails to see the [...]