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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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
