Post 342: Spotlight on PWAS Artist Staci Blanchard

Spotlight on PWAS Artist Staci Blanchard

The Artistry Spin Blog has started a series for Prince William Art Society (PWAS) members called "Spotlight Artists", where those artists that want to be featured will submit a prearranged template for posting here and spread on our PWAS social media sites.

This week's featured PWAS Spotlight Artist...

Staci Blanchard

Date: 4/26/2023

Artist Style: Abstract, pour painting

Artist Mediums: Acrylic

Artist Bio:

Staci has worn many hats in her 52 years. She is a Desert Storm Navy Veteran; she was a respiratory therapist and paralegal at different times. Staci turned to art about 6 years ago for mental health reasons and hasn’t looked back. She found her passion in fluid art/paint pouring.

This style of painting forces the artist to let the paint lead and give up control; when life gets crazy and you find yourself constantly trying to “control” everything, it is freeing to let go with the paint. Staci has recently started playing with abstract painting and discovering more of the artist inside.

Artist’s Awards:

Staci is currently the Vice President of PWAS

Artist PWAS Member Since:

August 2021

Artist’s Social Media:

goddessofglitter1@instagram

See the other featured PWAS members by searching for "Spotlight Artists".

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Author/Photographer/Artist: Staci Blanchard

 

Author: Donna Liguria
An artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA and Artistry Spin Blog Admin, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, Donna's Etsy site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.

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Local Art: Visit us at Stonebridge Open Space Arts at 15000 #140 Potomac Town Center, Woodbridge, VA - Open Wed to Sat 12-7 and Sun 12-5
The Prince William Art Society is a 52-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia.

Want to know how to get involved at OSA? If you are an artist (18 or older) living in Prince William County, or a are a member of a PWC art group, you are welcome to get on our next art show's emailing list. Send it to us, OR come by the gallery to find out more.

Want to join PWAS? Go to https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/membership

Thank you for visiting, and remember to Share, Follow, and Comment!

Post 341: PWAS Member Helen Burroughs Talks Fiber Art

PWAS Member Helen Burroughs Talks Fiber Art

Monday, April 24, 2023. Our featured guest artist this month was fellow Prince William Art Society member Helen Joyce Burroughs. Helen showed off some previous fiber art works she has created and gave many helpful tips on how to get started when creating and combining fiber and paint.

See also:  https://artistryspin.blogspot.com/2023/04/post-234-pwas-meeting-april-24-at-730pm.html

 

 

One of the tips Helen mentioned that stood out to me was about combining a painted background on the canvas with silk ribbon. Using gesso on your canvas will make the artwork FAR more difficult to do. You would be better off purchasing ungesso'd, unstretched canvas and having it stretched. The needle getting through a gesso'd canvas...well, you will have your work cut out for you there!

 

PWAS members have the opportunity to Zoom into the monthly meetings. Recently, the meetings have started with the guest speaker presentation, typically followed by light refreshments, then on to the business part of the PWAS meeting. New members are acknowledged and visitors are welcome too.

Open Space Arts Call for Art for "Threads"

As was mentioned in the meeting, sometime in August - September (if not earlier) a call for art will go out for the art show at Open Space Arts called "Threads". This show will feature fine creative arts with fiber/materials. Very often, these types of artworks take a lot of time to create - so this is a heads up for this show so you can plan your entries. The show will run October 18 to November 12, 2023.

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Author: Donna Liguria
An artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA and Artistry Spin Blog Admin, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Esty site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.

Photography/Video Credits: Donna Liguria

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Local Art: Visit us at Stonebridge Open Space Arts at 15000 #140 Potomac Town Center, Woodbridge, VA - Open Wed to Sat 12-7 and Sun 12-5
The Prince William Art Society is a 52-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia.

Want to know how to get involved at OSA? If you are an artist (18 or older) living in Prince William County, or a are a member of a PWC art group, you are welcome to get on our next art show's emailing list. Send it to us, OR come by the gallery to find out more.

Want to join PWAS? Go to https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/membership

Thank you for visiting, and remember to Share, Follow, and Comment!

Post 340: Art at the Mill is Now Open and Online

Art at the Mill is Now Open and Online

Several PWAS members and other local artist friends that you know are now showing at Art at the Mill. The show runs from April 22 to May 7, 2023 and the artist reception is April 30.

See the Art at the Mill and Online

Imagine jurying in for this art show! The art selected total 998 pieces from almost 300 artists! Wow, a TON of work goes into these shows - not only the selection to collection process, to the digital capture and posting online and the hanging processes. And then, as we all know, the army of volunteers that are needed. Ahhh, art life...

Spot the names you know! View the art online at: https://artatthemillspring2023.artcall.org/pages/web-gallery

Art at the Mill is a real - LIVE - working mill located at Burwell Morgan Mill,15 Tannery Lane, Millwood, VA - go see the art and buy some freshly milled flour, then go across the street for some goodies too.

See also: https://artistryspin.blogspot.com/2022/10/post-242-fall-art-at-mill-oct-1-16-2022.html

At Open Space Arts at Stonebridge, we just juried a show with 54 artists for the May 3 to June 18 show, so we can only imagine the intensity of the AATM setup. Saturday, April 22, 2023 and the sales are adding up! Have a look at their web gallery! Congratulations to those artists!

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Author: Donna Liguria
An artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA and Artistry Spin Blog Admin, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Esty site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.

Photography/Video Credits: 

Donna Liguria

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Local Art: Visit us at Stonebridge Open Space Arts at 15000 #140 Potomac Town Center, Woodbridge, VA - Open Wed to Sat 12-7 and Sun 12-5
The Prince William Art Society is a 52-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia.

Want to know how to get involved at OSA? If you are an artist (18 or older) living in Prince William County, or a are a member of a PWC art group, you are welcome to get on our next art show's emailing list. Send it to us, OR come by the gallery to find out more.

Want to join PWAS? Go to https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/membership

Thank you for visiting, and remember to Share, Follow, and Comment!

Post 339: PWAS Meeting April 24 at 7:30pm Program Features Helen Joyce Burroughs

PWAS Meeting April 24 at 7:30pm Program Features Helen Joyce Burroughs

The monthly meeting for the Prince William Art Society (PWAS) will meet on Monday, April 24 at 7:30pm

Featured Guest Program

April 24th the Prince William Art Society will host a program by Helen Joyce Burroughs at 7:30 pm which is free and open to the public. Please come join us at the Tall Oaks Community Center, 12298 Cotton Mill Dr, Woodbridge, VA 22192, for this enjoyable evening followed by light refreshments. If you wish, stay for the business meeting to learn about the educational and show opportunities provided by the society.

Ms. Burroughs is a native of California. She has traveled the world for her career in international trade and her personal interest in other cultures. She has visited over thirty countries, always taking the time to explore the art and gardens of the places she visited. Much of her work builds on her love of folk art that is dominate in the countries of Russia, South America and parts of Eastern Europe. The vibrant colors and emotional motifs that characterize the development of art in these countries influences her work.

Ms. Burroughs enjoys using a broad range of techniques and concepts. Her work utilizes oil, oil pastel, acrylics and textiles depending on which medium best suits the concept and emotions with which she is working. She has utilized her interest in textile art, including embroidery which she studied in France, to enhance her paintings. Her work can be viewed at her website  . She explains this process in a YouTube interview with the McLean Textile Gallery which can be viewed here:  https://youtu.be/O1Xkv8wHTew and will share some of her unique ways of interacting with the surface of her works to introduce texture and the unexpected.

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Images and mediums:

 

Teleport III, Australian aboriginal tribal cotton on canvas  

Cloth Wars, acrylic, silk, cotton and velvet

Untitled, layered assorted fibers and fiber embellishment

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Author: Emily Hawes

 

Author: Donna Liguria
An artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA and Artistry Spin Blog Admin, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Esty site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.

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Local Art: Visit us at Stonebridge Open Space Arts at 15000 #140 Potomac Town Center, Woodbridge, VA - Open Wed to Sat 12-7 and Sun 12-5
The Prince William Art Society is a 52-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia.

Want to know how to get involved at OSA? If you are an artist (18 or older) living in Prince William County, or a are a member of a PWC art group, you are welcome to get on our next art show's emailing list. Send it to us, OR come by the gallery to find out more.

Want to join PWAS? Go to https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/membership

Thank you for visiting, and remember to Share, Follow, and Comment!

Post 338: Artist Inventory Sale and OSA May Art Show

Artist Inventory Sale and OSA May Art Show

A date change for the Artist Inventory Sale in Manassas this weekend and the artists juried into the next Open Space Art Gallery Art Show for May. The reception for the May show is SATURDAY, May 6, 2023 at 6:30 for this, our largest art show so far!

Artist Inventory Sale in Manassas

Several PWAS members will have spots at the Manassas Artist Inventory Sale in downtown Manassas on SUNDAY, April 23, 2023. The date for this show was changed because the weather on Saturday is reported to be BLAH. Although held under the Harris Pavilion (9201 Center St, Manassas, VA 20110), who wants their art out in a down pour, right?

This is a very nice show to be in and to visit, run by a local artist Mike Flynn, and it is held twice a year, in the Spring and the Fall. Come out for a visit on Sunday between 12 and 4.

Open Space Arts Gallery "April Showers Bring May Flowers" Art Show

PWAS and OSA (Open Space Arts) are celebrating our largest art show yet to be held in the gallery! We are especially excited for this show! 

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own." — Charles Dickens

The OSA jurors have been busy viewing 354 art works submitted by 54 artists. We selected 206 beautiful works from this group to showcase at Open Space Arts Gallery from May 3 - June 18, 2023. The show is called "April Showers Bring May Flowers" with the art reception for this show held on Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 6:30 pm. This should be a big event for the gallery and ALL our artists and PWAS members are requested to attend.

Please join us as we celebrate the remarkable artistic images of flowers, growing things and the Spring weather that will be on display. If you LOVE supporting the arts, especially LOCAL art, and have a spot on your wall open for something artistically special, come by the gallery!

As you know, "the early bird gets the worm".

Congratulations to the following 50 juried recipients of the May Exhibition at Open Space Arts Gallery.

Aaron Kimmel              Akon Otoyo                        Anna Gatling            

Anthony Macaluso        Ava Beckman             Bettie Sperty               

Brenda Vann              Connie Huebner            Donna Liguria              

Doreen Dauer               Dylan Baylor                 Elizabeth Stathis            

Evelyn Chatters          Ginnefine Jalloh            Helen Joyce Burroughs  

Ivonne Virginia Sokol      Jeffrey Holman         Javier Silvio Amurrio     

Kate Brogdon                Katharine Owens           Kc Claure                

Kelly Haneklau             LA Mejias                        Larry Burch                 

Leah Boyton                Luis Munoz                     Marisol Coy                 

Mark Murphy                Michael Kent                   Michelle Baker           

Moises Reyes             Nicole Fisher                Peter Smolens             

Pierre G. Georges      Richard Tyler                 Phung Pham              

Sandy Painter             Valerian                           Sareen Rashid            

Saul Roldan               Scott McDonald              Sheri Herrick               

Susan Furr             Sandra McClelland Lewin         Kristina Steffen           

Tom Payne                Tony Muller                        Trang Pham

Virginia Holman          Walter Manzano               Zorri Berrios

A lot of local talent and so many diverse styles! Congratulations to all that were selected. You will see flowers of every sort, including cherry blossoms, hydrangeas, daffodils, cornflowers, roses, hollyhocks, orchids, African violets, day lilies, lavender, tulips and wonderful gardens. If only we had paints with the smell of the blooms being featured!

 

Artwork by Betty Sperty

 

"Blossom by blossom the spring begins." — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Author: Penny Shaw

 

Author: Donna Liguria
An artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA and Artistry Spin Blog Admin, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Esty site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.

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Local Art: Visit us at Stonebridge Open Space Arts at 15000 #140 Potomac Town Center, Woodbridge, VA - Open Wed to Sat 12-7 and Sun 12-5
The Prince William Art Society is a 52-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia.

Want to know how to get involved at OSA? If you are an artist (18 or older) living in Prince William County, or a are a member of a PWC art group, you are welcome to get on our next art show's emailing list. Send it to us, OR come by the gallery to find out more.

Want to join PWAS? Go to https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/membership

Thank you for visiting, and remember to Share, Follow, and Comment!

Post 337: Spotlight on PWAS Artist Otis Stanley

PWAS Spotlight Artist Otis Stanley

The Artistry Spin Blog is starting a series for Prince William Art Society (PWAS) members called "Spotlight Artists", where those artists that want to be featured will submit a prearranged template for posting here and spread on our PWAS social media sites.

Our featured Prince William County member artist...

Otis L. Stanley

Date: 3/29/2023

Artist Style: Human form

Artist Mediums: Acrylic paintings

Artist Bio:

Otis creates work that reflects the art of simply living. His work captures images that reflect his culture and heritage. Otis enjoys inviting viewers to explore his work and engage in conversation about each piece. Often painting in monochromatic colors, Otis stands alone in presenting his work in an often otherwise room of color.

Artist’s Awards:

Otis is a two time winner of the People’ Choice Award at the Open Space Art, (Dready, 2-2022 and Sultry, 2-2023) He also placed 2^nd at the annual Veteran’s Show in Winchester, Va. for his entry of Going Home, (11-2022)

Artist PWAS Member Since:

09/2020

Artist’s URL:

https://otis-stanley.pixels.com

Artist’s Contact:

Phone: 703-401-4245 and Email: slimric1513 AT gmail.com

See the other featured PWAS members by searching for "Spotlight Artists".

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Author/Photographer/Artist: Otis Stanley

 

Author: Donna Liguria
An artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA and Artistry Spin Blog Admin, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Esty site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.

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Local Art: Visit us at Stonebridge Open Space Arts at 15000 #140 Potomac Town Center, Woodbridge, VA - Open Wed to Sat 12-7 and Sun 12-5
The Prince William Art Society is a 52-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia.

Want to know how to get involved at OSA? If you are an artist (18 or older) living in Prince William County, or a are a member of a PWC art group, you are welcome to get on our next art show's emailing list. Send it to us, OR come by the gallery to find out more.

Want to join PWAS? Go to https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/membership

Thank you for visiting, and remember to Share, Follow, and Comment!