Old Town Hall, 2nd floor, 3950 University Dr, Fairfax

FAL offers an excellent opportunity to paint a live model! Vincent DeSapio will pose from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Bring your sketching and painting supplies and try your hand. You may also work on new or started works, at this informal art session. Bring or buy your lunch at nearby restaurants.

Come see some of the best art your fellow artist members are exhibiting and celebrate with the winners in the only judged FAL exhibit. Enjoy a lovely reception and live entertainment from Lalo and his group. Special Opportunity: Win a basket of goodies donated by Trader Joe's. Tickets are just $1 each (buy more than one!) and support the children's art classes at the Main Street Child Development Center.

This reception is free and open to the public. Please come and bring a friend!

Bring your artwork to this informal art session and gain perspective on your work. Bring or buy your lunch and join other artists for a fun session.

Old Town Hall, 2nd Floor
3999 University Dr., Fairfax

League member artists in good standing may display work for this two-month exhibit at Old Town Hall in Fairfax, Virginia.  There is no hanging limit and there are no fees.  If you had work on display in the last show, please pick it up during this show change during the specified times.  

Reminders: Please note all artwork needs to meet FAL hanging standards. To access Rules & Procedures and for more information regarding hanging requirements, click here

Green Acres Center
4401 Sideburn Rd., Room 110, Fairfax

Mark Geiger will work with participants on techniques in watercolor painting. Beginner or expert: all are welcome. The aim is to learn by doing.

Course objectives for this three-series class are to review artistic background and techniques of watercolor to achieve basic comfort and competence in composing and executing work in this media. Beginners will learn basic concepts and techniques for a range of compositions. More experienced artists will have the opportunity to practice a range of alternative techniques and integrate theoretical material and applied methods into enhanced practice sessions.

The fee per class is $15 for members and $30 for non-members.

To register and receive a list of materials or to ask a question, please send a message to 1fairfaxartleague@gmail.com.

About the Artist

Mark Geiger is an artist specializing in local scenery, particularly using the medium of watercolor, as well as drawings, pastel and oils. His style is impressionistic, and he is drawn to the theory behind light and color. Drawing and painting have been avocations since early childhood. His work has been exhibited in the Fairfax county area, including the Fairfax Art League. Other pursuits include full time work in the fields of occupational health, safety and environmental management, reading and outdoor activities. Additional pictures and information can be found at www.MarksDClandscapes.com.

Green Acres Center
4401 Sideburn Rd., Room 110, Fairfax

Mark Geiger will work with participants on techniques in watercolor painting. Beginner or expert: all are welcome. The aim is to learn by doing.

Course objectives for this three-series class are to review artistic background and techniques of watercolor to achieve basic comfort and competence in composing and executing work in this media. Beginners will learn basic concepts and techniques for a range of compositions. More experienced artists will have the opportunity to practice a range of alternative techniques and integrate theoretical material and applied methods into enhanced practice sessions.

The fee per class is $15 for members and $30 for non-members.

To register and receive a list of materials or to ask a question, please send a message to 1fairfaxartleague@gmail.com.

About the Artist

Mark Geiger is an artist specializing in local scenery, particularly using the medium of watercolor, as well as drawings, pastel and oils. His style is impressionistic, and he is drawn to the theory behind light and color. Drawing and painting have been avocations since early childhood. His work has been exhibited in the Fairfax county area, including the Fairfax Art League. Other pursuits include full time work in the fields of occupational health, safety and environmental management, reading and outdoor activities. Additional pictures and information can be found at www.MarksDClandscapes.com.

Green Acres Center
4401 Sideburn Rd., Room 110, Fairfax

Mark Geiger will work with participants on techniques in watercolor painting. Beginner or expert: all are welcome. The aim is to learn by doing.

Course objectives for this three-series class are to review artistic background and techniques of watercolor to achieve basic comfort and competence in composing and executing work in this media. Beginners will learn basic concepts and techniques for a range of compositions. More experienced artists will have the opportunity to practice a range of alternative techniques and integrate theoretical material and applied methods into enhanced practice sessions.

The fee per class is $15 for members and $30 for non-members.

To register and receive a list of materials or to ask a question, please send a message to 1fairfaxartleague@gmail.com.

About the Artist

Mark Geiger is an artist specializing in local scenery, particularly using the medium of watercolor, as well as drawings, pastel and oils. His style is impressionistic, and he is drawn to the theory behind light and color. Drawing and painting have been avocations since early childhood. His work has been exhibited in the Fairfax county area, including the Fairfax Art League. Other pursuits include full time work in the fields of occupational health, safety and environmental management, reading and outdoor activities. Additional pictures and information can be found at www.MarksDClandscapes.com.

Members of the the FAL Children's Education Committee provide classes for the children of the Main Street Child Development Center. This class will be held at Green Acres Center.

In this class, FAL member Ramona Weaver will help the children explore color mixing by tie-dyeing white table napkins, folding them in different ways and dipping parts of them into red, yellow and blue food coloring. 

If you are interested in teaching elementary school children to appreciate art or would like to attend a class, contact Kathleen Stark at knstark72@gmail.com.

Grab your lunch, your art, and your creativity!  The Fairfax Art League will be hosting an Art & Lunch at Old Town Hall from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.  Bring a lunch and enjoy the company of other artists while creating.  There are plenty of restaurants within walking distance of the Village Gallery should you choose to pick up a bite in the area.  For more information contact  Maria Jordan at mariaTjordan10@gmail.com.

Please join us for our membership meeting at the Green Acres Center, 4401 Sideburn Road, Room 116, Fairfax, Virginia.  The meeting will begin at 10:00 a.m. and a demonstration, Watercolor Batik Painting, by artist Jack Harding, will commence at 11:30 a.m.

Learn watercolor batik techniques from artist Jack Harding. See how to create intricate backgrounds and images using Ginwashi paper, paraffin resists and various colored washes.
After he learned watercolor techniques on standard paper (Arches), Jack has concentrated on using innovative rice paper-based techniques to easily add complex coloristic and textural effects to his watercolors.  He concentrates on natural subjects such as birds and flowers, as well as landscapes, including many themes from the US Southwest and California.  

Jack lives in Potomac, Maryland, and is a signature artist of the Potomac Valley Watercolorists, Baltimore Watercolor Society and Gallery 75 at the ArtLeague in Alexandria. Find examples of Jack's work at https://www.flickr.com/photos/theartleague/albums/72157627370021733/

Old Town Hall, 2nd Floor
3999 University Dr., Fairfax

AN EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED! Because we love our members, we have planned a special party to honor you.

Enjoy a Valentine's party with special decor and refreshments plus music from guitarist Stan Hamrick. Bring your friends and family to enjoy the festivities. 

For more fun, and totally optional, you can dress in tribute to an artist you admire. For example, Frida Kahlo's unibrow, van Gogh's bandaged ear, Dali's mustache or Pollack's spatter painted clothes. The choices are unlimited. 

Old Town Hall, 2nd Floor
3999 University Dr., Fairfax

Donna Finnegan will suggest and demonstrate different ways to begin a new watercolor portrait. Come to watch, ask questions or bring your own watercolor portrait to paint. Donna will be on hand to help with all aspects of portraiture. Or, you may bring other artwork you are interested in developing and gain perspective on your work. Bring or buy your lunch and join other artists at work. 

Donna has been painting with watercolors for over 40 years and is now concentrating on portrait painting, doing commissioned works and exhibiting. She is a member of the FAL and the Potomac Valley Watercolorists.

New Fairfax Regional Library Show - For Fairfax Art League Members

Show your art at the Fairfax Regional Library, 10360 North Street, Fairfax, for the new four month show.  Advanced registration is required. Information has been sent recently to all members. No fee. Contact Susan Reichbart at ssreichbart@verizon.net for questions.

Old Town Hall, 2nd Floor
3999 University Dr., Fairfax

The Fairfax Art League invites you to a fascinating look backward into art history. Enjoy an evening of Art and Poetry. 

A century ago, Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova, an icon of the St. Petersburg poetry tradition for half a century, visited Paris and bewitched its intellectuals, Amedeo Modigliani in particular. Their affair had a profound effect on the artists' art. 

While there, enjoy featured artist Yelena Svecharnik's "My Journey - A Retrospective."

Meeting time: 10:30 a.m. 

Estimated return: 5:00 p.m.

FAL members and the public are invited to visit the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, the historic DC Department of Corrections Workhouse and Reformatory, that currently provides studio and exhibition space to over 80 artists.

The outing will begin with a stop in Occoquan to visit a few of the art gallery and craft shops then lunch at the Secret Garden restaurant followed by the Workhouse visit.

Meet at 10:30 at the home of Susan Reichbart to carpool. Please contact her for the address at ssreichbart@verizon.net if interested in attending.

Meeting time: 9:45 a.m. 

Estimated return: 4:30 p.m.

Each year in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, a city of 70,000 people erect enormous experimental art installations that rise out of the dust for a single week. Then, at its conclusion, many are burned to the ground. This thriving temporary metropolis known as the Art of Burning Man is a hotbed of artistic ingenuity and one of the most influential phenomenons in contemporary American art and culture. 

For the first time, the Art of Burning Man exhibit brings the large-scale participatory work from the desert to the national's capital. The exhibit takes over the entire Renwick Gallery building at 1661 Pennsylvania Ave, NW and brings the Burning Man culture to life through artworks, room-size installations plus jewelry, and costumes that transport visitors to the famed desert location, the "playa." The exhibit also includes six outdoor installations throughout the Golden Triangle neighborhood. Come see it for yourself with the FAL.

Carpool and Metro Transportation: Park in the garage near the old Village Gallery location at 3950 University Drive (or elsewhere) and gather by 9:45 a.m. in the air conditioned lobby by the yoga studio. At 10 a.m. designated drivers will depart for the Vienna Metro Station (Orange Line). A Metro fare card is needed to ride to the Faragut West Metro stop. Members interested in joining the group should contact Susan Reichbart at ssreichbart@verizon.net. 

Following the exhibit, the group will walk to a local restaurant and then return by Metro to the Vienna Metro Station.