BVAA artist of the day is Beverly Tinklenberg who paints gorgeous landscapes!
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Field Trip to Worcester Historical Museum
On August 5, 2016, the Blackstone Valley Art Association took a field trip to the Worcester Historical Museum for their Free Fun Friday event. It was a blast! Here are just a few photos. If you have some to add from this event please let us know!
Mike Zeis
BVAA artist of the day – talented Mike Zeis who explores all variety of obscure photography
https://bvaa.org/galleries/gallery-mike-zeis/
MultiMedia Art Collaboration Project
Thanks to Bob Evans for thinking up this fun collaborative project!
Here’s the idea.
We start with an image. Let’s say it’s of a house. We then divvy that image up into sections for each person to portray. Maybe an oil painter gets the roof. Maybe a watercolor person gets the doorway. An acrylic painter might get the front side. A pen-and-ink drawer might get the side of the house.
Everyone makes their image however they wish.
All of the pieces are then given to Bob and he assembles them in PhotoShop to connect together to show the house.
Then we can showcase in an art show the original image, each person’s standalone work, and then the final, assembled image.
Let us know if this sounds interesting to you and what types of items you’d be interested in working on!
Film vs Digital 2016
Thank you to Dennis Smith for inspiring this fun project!
The idea is for our BVAA artists to send in up to five each of digital and film images. Let us know which are which. All images must be in to us by Monday, October 31, 2016.
The film images should be as near straight-from-the-camera as possible. No photoshopping beyond simple contrast and brightness.
On the digital side, anything goes. You can try various techniques to try to make the image look “filmy.”
We’ll mix them all up, shake them around, and then put them on our website.
Everyone then has to guess which ones are digital and which ones are film.
The more unusual the better! Can you create strange light-leak and flare effects from your digital camera, using PhotoShop? Can your film image reach HDR levels?
We’ll find out!
Video Interview / Demo Series
The BVAA is looking to create a new video interview / demo series to showcase our wide variety of talent in our group. It’ll be a way for us to learn more about each other’s techniques and share our experiences with the world.
Here’s an example video of Bob Evans doing abstract photography –
Let us know if you’d be interested in participating in it!
2017 BVAA Calendar Project
Last year we tried to make a yearly artistic calendar but we got started a bit late. This time we’re going to start early, so we can get done before the holidays!
The 2017 BVAA Calendar Project will end up showcasing 13 images. There will be the cover image and then the 12 one-per-month inside images.
All BVAA members are welcome to participate!
Begin by emailing up to five images to the main info AT BVAA.org email address. The images should all be LANDSCAPE (wide) because that’s how the calendar is laid out. The physical size of each image is 8.5″ x 11″. So aim for an image of that dimension and the maximum pixel count possible. Don’t artificially make your image larger – that tends to pixellate the image and make it worse. Just have it be as large as it can be naturally, without inflation. If you have any challenges taking photos of your oil paintings, acrylic paintings, etc. just let us know and we’ll try to lend a hand. If you’re a photographer and are having trouble cropping your image to the right dimensions we can help with that, too.
All images must be mailed in by Friday, September 30th, 2016.
We will then load all of the images up onto this website. Last year we used Facebook and it turns out many of our members don’t have Facebook accounts. So by putting them on this website everyone can participate. Each member should send us an email for their choice of their twelve favorite images. The votes should all be in by Saturday, October 15th.
We’ll tally the results and create the calendar!
Let us know if you have any questions.
Flickr Show Sept 2016 – “Metal”
Our theme for our September 2016 online show with Flickr is on the theme of “Metal”! Share all your favorite images with a metallic bent to them!
Clinton Massachusetts Olde Home Day 2016
Clinton, Massachusetts is having their 15th annual Olde Home Day on Friday, September 9th and Saturday, September 10th, 2016. This fun festival includes music, art, food, drink, raffle, and much more!
The BVAA is looking to participate in their art show. The festival people will watch over the art for us. We can aim to set things up on Thursday evening and then take it down Saturday afternoon.
Officially the Clinton festivities run from 5-10pm on Friday, September 9th and then 10-4 on Saturday, September 10th. So it’s a fairly early end on Saturday to then take things down and be all set.
The location of the art show is:
Clinton Spanish Seventh-Day Adventist Church at 250 Church Street, Clinton, MA
From the Clinton website:
Registration Fee: $10.00 per piece or $20 for 3-pieces
Note: If you volunteer to watch the art for a few hours you can enter for free.
Set-up: Thurs., Sept 8th, 5:00-7:30pm at Spanish Church
Pick-up: Sat. Sept 10th, at 4:00pm (close of OHD event)
Payment: Make out to “Town of Clinton”
Purchased items MUST remain until close of this activity.
Limited Tables, table top easels and security will be available. A panel of judges from the Apatite Collective will determine prize categories and there will be a “Best of Show”.
Photography, watercolor, pastel, pen/ink etc. should be matted. Olde Home Day is a family event – all entries must be family friendly and entry to show is at the discretion of the coordinator – Laura Taylor.
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Please let us know if you’re interested in participating so we can arrange the right number of panels for our group and coordinate set-up and take-down! If you can’t bring the art up yourself, just get it to Carol F by Wed evening with the entry fee. Let us know if you have any questions!
For each piece you’re submitting to the show, email the following information to thetaylortrio AT hotmail.com – Laura Taylor. Also make sure the back of your art is labelled as well.
Pop-Up Art Show Registration Form
Name: (print)
Address:
City:
State:
Zip:
Phone:
Email:
Medium:
Description (briefly describe your piece):
Who will be picking up your work (we will ask for ID):
Official Website:
Witching Hour: Imagery from Darkness
The PhotoSynthesis gallery in Manchester, Connecticut is having a show themed “Witching Hour: Imagery from Darkness” – the deadline to enter is August 31, 2016. It’s open to any photographic medium.
From their description of the show:
“Historically, the witching hour is that time of night when witches, ghosts, and supernatural beings are thought to be most active. The exact time varies depending on particular beliefs, but is generally considered to be some period of darkness between dusk and dawn. An everyday use of the term might define the witching hour simply as “after dark.”
Whatever one’s beliefs or lack thereof in the supernatural, it is certain that the perception of one’s surroundings at night can be substantially different than the perception of one’s surroundings during the day. Moonlight creates soft shadows; forms merge together; imagination and fear lurk in the darkness. Perhaps fatigue sets in and feeds our mind irrational images—”a trick of the light and too much caffeine,” to borrow a line from the gothic rock band Bauhaus.
We are seeking images, in any photographic medium, that convey interpretations of the witching hour. How do you photograph darkness? Forty to fifty pieces will be chosen by the juror to be exhibited at Gallery 136½.”
Full details and the online entry form: