Post 513: Mark Murphy Photos from Sat, Nov 26 in DC

Mark Murphy's Photos from Sat, Nov 26 in DC

Some of the Prince William Art Society (PWAS) members went on a field trip on Saturday, October 26, 2024 to the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, along with a few members of the Manassas Art Guild. Mark Murphy, a very talented watercolorist and photographer member of PWAS was a part of the group that went to the gallery. Here are some of the photos he took from in and around one of the world's most famous galleries and of course, our nation's Capital city.

Mark's Pictures of the National Gallery of Art Field Trip

At our recent PWAS meeting, Monday, October 28, 2024, Mark gave a quick, very entertaining presentation for everyone to see that included many of these photos that he took below. Not sure if some of these pieces have a meaning behind them, it is DC after all but as always, art is open to interpretation as life is to what you make of it. Enjoy Mark Murphy's photos...

 

Janis Terpenny and spouse, Laura Lavarnway and spouse, Sandra McClelland Lewin, Evelyn Chatters, Staci Blanchard, Anna Gatling, Donna Liguria, Larry Burch, Mark Clifton, Maureen Guillot, David Dillon, Maria Briganti. Mark Muprhy is the photographer with the National Gallery of Art in the background.

 

Too cute!

 

"I'm thinking, I'm thinking..." - a line from which movie?*

 

Anna Gatling and Evelyn Chatters of PWAS

Anyone else have some pictures from our field trip to share?

Other PWAS blog posts from the Monday, October 28, 2024 PWAS Meeting:

PWAS Meeting Guest Speaker M. Jane Johnson

Lime Challenge Revealed

Miss a meeting and you miss a lot! 

*The movie was "Night at the Museum 2" and the statue is The Thinker (Le Penseur) by Auguste Rodin, model 1880, cast 1901 https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.1005.html

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

Photography/Video Credits: Mark Murphy

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Local Art: The Prince William Art Society is a 50+-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia. Visit us at any of our local art shows or join us for our monthly meetings - held on the 4th Monday of the month at the Tall Oaks Community Center at 12298 Cotton Mill Dr, Woodbridge, VA at 7:30pm

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

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Post 512: PWAS Meeting Guest Speaker M. Jane Johnson

PWAS Meeting Guest Speaker M. Jane Johnson

Monday, October 28, 2024. The monthly Prince William Art Society meeting takes place every month (except in December) on the 4th Monday of the month at 7:30pm at the Tall Oaks Community Center at 12298 Cotton Mill Road in Woodbridge, VA. Our guest speaker at this meeting was local artist M. Jane Johnson.

Creating Beauty from Chaos

Ms. Johnson gave a presentation on how she creates her artwork and gave many tips on her process including Golden painting products and ideas for their use like using an Isolation Coat. The membership had many questions and enjoyed her program.

See https://artistryspin.blogspot.com/2024/10/post-507-creating-beauty-from-chaos.html

 

Ms Johnson has an art space at the Lorton Workhouse - we should visit her there!! 

Other PWAS blog posts from the Monday, October 28, 2024 PWAS Meeting:

Mark Murphy's Photos from DC

Lime Challenge Revealed

Miss a meeting and you miss a lot!

The Next PWAS Meeting

The Prince William Art Society will meet again Monday, November 25 at 7:30 pm at Tall Oaks. Emily Hawes has some exciting ideas for our next program and we look forward to that. The meetings are free to the public to attend, so come on by - especially if you are an artist and want to learn more about art, art events, art shows and more in and around Prince William County.

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

Photography/Video Credits: Donna Liguria

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Local Art: The Prince William Art Society is a 50+-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia. Visit us at any of our local art shows or join us for our monthly meetings - held on the 4th Monday of the month at the Tall Oaks Community Center at 12298 Cotton Mill Dr, Woodbridge, VA at 7:30pm

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

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Post 511: Lime Challenge Revealed

Lime Challenge Revealed

At the Prince William Art Society meeting on Monday, October 28, 2024 which takes place on the 4th Monday of the month at 7:30pm at the Tall Oaks Community Center in Woodbridge, we finally revealed our PWAS Lime Challenge artworks. The story is here on how the Lime Challenge began, and at the meeting, we showed our results.

 

The original Lime for the Challenge

PWAS Lime Challenge

Get a bunch of artists together and they see something 'out of place' and this is what they come up with. The task was to come up with an artwork for a lime in whichever way you see it - as is or how it should be.

Step 1. We need a subject for the challenge.

     For the story behind the Lime Challenge, see https://artistryspin.blogspot.com/2024/09/post-497-pwas-lime-challenge.html

Step 2. We needed a way to vote for our favorite.

    I used simple pictures of limes that I cut out and each lime was a vote for the members to place in front of/on their favorite piece. The piece with the most limes, wins. AND it was hard to pick a favorite as they were all to wonderful! Great job everyone!!

Step 3. Should we have something for the winner?

    I gave out an inexpensive sketch book to the winner.

Step 4. Should we have something to go with the challenge as far as food/drink?

    Think Lime and much comes to mind in food and in drink. I made Easy Lime Jello Sugar Cookies. I think folks enjoyed them, there was only 1 left.

As members came in, they placed their lime works on the table. And we were NOT disappointed - you guys all did great with your limes! 

I kept thinking, now WHAT do we do with our Lime Challenge artwork? I didn't have an answer for that. Maybe someone does?

As you can see, voting on a favorite was NOT easy. I loved them all.

 

Our winner was Robert Dew's Lime with 7 limes

The PWAS Challenge can be anything that we want it to be, but this is how I played it. I think it turned out fun. I'm thinking we need to continue the challenge...

Who Wants to do the Next PWAS Challenge?

PWAS Challenge is something I would like the art group to continue and I've heard a few others say they enjoyed it as well and would like to see it continue. I played it the way I did but if someone wants to take over the next challenge with suggestions and do it differently - just stand up. 

I'd be happy to work with the next PWAS Challenge if need be, and I was thinking SNOW in January....

What do you think?

Other PWAS blog posts from the Monday, October 28, 2024 PWAS Meeting:

Mark Murphy's Photos from DC

PWAS Meeting Guest Speaker M. Jane Johnson

Miss a meeting and you miss a lot!

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

Photography/Video Credits: Donna Liguria

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Local Art: The Prince William Art Society is a 50+-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia. Visit us at any of our local art shows or join us for our monthly meetings - held on the 4th Monday of the month at the Tall Oaks Community Center at 12298 Cotton Mill Dr, Woodbridge, VA at 7:30pm

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

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Post 510: PWAS Field Trip to the National Gallery of Art Part 2

PWAS Field Trip to the National Gallery of Art Part 2

Saturday, October 26, 2024. The Prince William Art Society group (PWAS) met at the Tall Oaks Community Center on Cotton Mill Drive at 9:45am along with a few members of the Manassas Art Guild (MAG) to take a little trip to DC. The Destination? When you get a bus load of artists in the Northern Virginia area together, where else (?) but the National Gallery of Art.

More National Gallery of Art Pictures

If you click on the picture, you can enlarge it and possibly see the art label. I wonder how many you can name the artists and/or title without peeking?

 

Crazy bit of trivia on this one, the artist painted this in ONE outdoor session - in one day.

 

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This one was made up of crazy spots and dots of paint. The detail on so much of the artwork, a big "Wow". Seeing them in person will blow your mind. And occasionally the size of them will too. I wondered what the size of the artwork was as that is not noted on the works. Some are so large, how did they get it in the building? While a few other easily recognizable works seem smaller than you imagined them to be.

 

A few displays had one in the front and another piece back to back with the other, displayed together in a glass case. There's a story there.

 

The gallery winds its way all around info various gallery spaces for different periods of times and various countries and more. Just looking through a door or hallway can be breathtaking too as you gaze across. The place is much like a maze.

And finally we end up back where we came in at. It was a great trip.

Back to the bus parked in front of the Sculpture Garden and back to the Tall Oaks Community Center by about 3:30pm.

The Master Artists

A who's who of artists: Manet, Monet, Da Vinci, Sargeant, Seurat, Renoir, Homer, Whistler, Dietrich, Heade, Chase, Church, Bierstadt, Pissarro, Degas, Morisot, Duez, Bouguereau,  Gerome, Cabaillot-Lassalle and so very many more. I do believe we all enjoyed the adventure and appreciated not only the art and artists, but a big thanks to the Prince William Art Society for sponsoring this great trip! 

See Part 1 of our Field Trip to the National Gallery of Art

What was your favorite artwork? Drop it in a comment below. I hope you enjoyed this post too!

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

Photography/Video Credits: Donna Liguria

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Local Art: The Prince William Art Society is a 50+-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia. Visit us at any of our local art shows or join us for our monthly meetings - held on the 4th Monday of the month at the Tall Oaks Community Center at 12298 Cotton Mill Dr, Woodbridge, VA at 7:30pm

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

Have an idea for a blog post? Are you a writer and want to help with the blog? Let me know! Thank you for visiting, and remember to Share, Follow, and Comment! pinterest-site-verification=3ad32cc9cfeae507ba5a382d62fcee17