WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP with Michele Frantz Saturday, February 28 • 10 to 4 at Manassas Baptist, 8742 Sudley Road, Manassas $45 members & seniors • $60 non-members For adults, all skill levels. Using only six tubes of paint, learn simple techniques for adding mood, atmosphere and drama to your landscape paintings. Shed pre-conceived notions about color and value, [...]
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Election of Board of Directors
October 4th, 2008 
Shane The Manassas Art Guild held it’s annual meeting on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. At this meeting, all members of the Board of Directors were up for re-election. In addition, the membership was voting on revisions of the MAG Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws. The following members of the Board were re-elected to their positions: Shane [...]
Shane’s Wild Birthday Bash
July 13th, 2008 Selina Farmer Watch the Move: the Pirate that doesnt do Anything For those who were there you already know that our MAG president is a pirate in real life. We now have the proof. Watch if you dare (and lock up your kids)!
New Videos Posted to “MAG Videos” Page
June 19th, 2008 Shane 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 [...]
And the winners are….
June 14th, 2008 Michele Frantz 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 [...]
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June 8th, 2008 Selina Farmer 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 colors [...]
Paint! Manassas 2008 – Show Pictures
June 1st, 2008 Selina Farmer The morning was beautiful and the it rained with damaging thunderstorms in the afternoon, however, the show went on. Paint! Manassas 2008 succeeded in drawing 18 local artists to create and display over 50 pieces of fine art which depicted Old Town Manassas and the historic Manassas Civil War Battle Grounds. Numerous pieces of original [...]
Back in Manassas and painting!
May 20th, 2008 Selina Farmer 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 [...]
So Many Paintings, So Little Time
May 19th, 2008 Michele Frantz 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!
May 10th, 2008 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 [...]
