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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And the winners are….
June 14th, 2008 
Michele Frantz 
Posted in Acrylic, En plein air, Oil, Paint! Manassas, Painting, Photography, Watercolor 
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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 [...]
Another day Painting in Old Town Manassas
May 8th, 2008 Selina Farmer 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 went [...]
Painting on the Manassas Battlefield
May 5th, 2008 Selina Farmer 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 on [...]
Another day, another Paint-Out
April 23rd, 2008 Michele Frantz 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!
April 22nd, 2008 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 [...]
Presence – Acrylic by Michele Frantz
February 25th, 2008 Michele Frantz One of my first successful acrylic paintings — of the old Manassas Courthouse. Ghostly presence…… –Michele
