MAG Artist’s Blog

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 your items on ArtByUs.  Anything you list will be automatically displayed on this page for the duration of the time it is for sale.

ArtByUs is completely free. It works. I have sold paintings on it.

Yes, sold paintings online.

Did I mention completely FREE?

I am also available for help, as needed.

 Best Regards

Rob Burkhard
Treasurer, MAG

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, Programs, etc.), please also identify your position or committee.

Thanks!

Shane C. Williams
President, Manassas Art Guild

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.

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

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 is not the complete session (unfortunately, the camera ran out of battery power) but we did get 1 hour and 27 minutes of his presentation/discussion with the artists.

Please enjoy!!

Shane C. Williams
President, Manassas Art Guild

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.  Thanks to all who came out to make this a success!

Rob Burkhard

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 knife. Scritch, scritch…. we all agreed that was a beautiful sound.

After we got rid of that pesky Rob, Mary Ellen and I tried to cram in one more painting each before we had to get back to our less glamorous lives. Below, that’s Mary Ellen packing up to leave on the left, and on the right a shot of my big accomplishment for the day…. a little 2×3″ half-finished painting of Foster’s Grille. That’s three unfinished paintings for me in two days!  — michele frantz

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

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 got back to. Here’s the results so far. Charlotte remarked that it looked like I was painting it upside down, now I see what she means! Just remember it’s not finished! The best part of the whole day was going over to the Victorian Tea Room afterwards for scones and tea (Monk’s blend, mmm.) Another Paint-Out tomorrow!

—–michele frantz

This one involved a lot of dripping!