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Category: En plein air

And the winners are….

14 June, 2008 (20:09) | Acrylic, En plein air, Oil, Paint! Manassas, Painting, Photography, Watercolor | No comments

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 [...]

So Many Paintings, So Little Time

19 May, 2008 (05:08) | Acrylic, En plein air, Paint! Manassas, Watercolor | 3 comments

 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
 
   

First Day of Paint! Manassas!

10 May, 2008 (23:45) | Acrylic, En plein air, Paint! Manassas, Painting, Watercolor | 1 comment

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 [...]

Another day Painting in Old Town Manassas

8 May, 2008 (15:48) | Drawing, En plein air, Events, Paint! Manassas, Painting, Watercolor | No comments

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 [...]

Painting on the Manassas Battlefield

5 May, 2008 (19:05) | En plein air, Painting, Watercolor | No comments

 Well today is the first day of my first retirement (before I go back to work next month ).  I celebrated by going to the Manassas Battlefield with Michele, Maria, Selina and Mary Ellen to gear up for the spring en plien air season.  I will let the paintings speak for themselves.  The top [...]

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 [...]

Presence - Acrylic by Michele Frantz

25 February, 2008 (20:36) | Acrylic, En plein air, Painting | 1 comment

One of my first successful acrylic paintings — of the old Manassas Courthouse. Ghostly presence……