You’ve probably seen charity donation requests on Facebook. Maybe someone is having a birthday and they’d like people to donate to their favorite charity. Maybe they are doing a Facebook Live presentation and the request is for people to donate to a charity.
How does a group get their name onto that list of charities, so they can be chosen?
First off, you do have to be an official non-profit organization. Every state and country has its own rules about how to acquire that non-profit ID. Check with your state or country to figure out the steps, and go through them.
In the US, you are required to have a 501(c)(3) organization with a Tax ID number. You also need an official bank account associated with that non-profit, that will receive the funds.
You need a Facebook page for your charity, so people know where to connect to.
Once those things are set, then you follow these instructions to enable your Facebook page for your charity’s donations.
Our Saturday, May 16th, 2020 lineup is delightful! Set your alarm and enjoy a day of relaxing creativity! Free!
Luke MacNeil 10am – 1pm
Luke MacNeil is an absolute wizard with computer design. Come participate live on Facebook as Luke shows us how to work with shapes, text, and patterns to create wonderful banners, promotional images, and much, much more.
You can comment live as he works, ask questions, and practice along if you’d like!
Luke often uses Photoshop, Procreate, and other similar applications to create his works.
Free and open to the public!
ONLINE VIRTUAL ON FACEBOOK!
Let us know what else you’d like him to talk about!
Hang out and chat, work along with him, and enjoy your Saturday morning!
Come join Laura in her studio for an amazingly fun paint session! You can just watch and chat or you can paint along! Use oil paints or acrylic paints, your choice. Get a handle on shapes, values, and drawing!
Drawing and Painting with Oils or Acrylics
Palette knives/ straight edge like kitchen knife, credit card or anything similar Artist Oil Color and Acrylic Artist Color or Comparable White, Yellow Ochre, light yellow, Red, Blue
· Grey Pad Disposable Paper Palette/Plate anything · oil Impasto Mediums/ Walnut oil/ drying medium or Acrylic impasto medium · Mineral spirits/ Water for acrylic · Paper towels · Brushes for Oil or Acrylic Painting · A can or jar for mineral spirits/water · A bag for trash · A clip to clip your trash bag to your easel or tripod · An easel or paint box · Canvas Artist Board or Paper
Anything else you may be comfortable to use.
Ask with any questions. Free, open to the public, and relaxing fun!
Our Saturday, May 9th, 2020 lineup is delightful! Set your alarm and enjoy a day of relaxing creativity! Free!
Luke MacNeil 10am – 1pm
Luke’s workshop this week will be on animation. Add some pizzazz to the online videos and projects you’re contemplating! He’ll show how it works with words, but you can apply these techniques to pretty much anything you wish.
ONLINE VIRTUAL ON FACEBOOK!
Let us know what else you’d like him to talk about!
Hang out and chat, work along with him, and enjoy your Saturday morning!
Come join Laura in her studio for an amazingly fun paint session! You can just watch and chat or you can paint along! Use oil paints or acrylic paints, your choice. This week we’re working on an intriguing still life. Get a handle on shapes, values, and drawing!
Introduction to Drawing and Painting with Oils or Acrylics Still Life
OIl Or Acrylic
Palette knives/ straight edge like kitchen knife, credit card or anything similar Artist Oil Color and Acrylic Artist Color or Comparable White, Yellow Ochre, light yellow, Red, Blue
· Grey Pad Disposable Paper Palette/Plate anything · oil Impasto Mediums/ Walnut oil/ drying medium or Acrylic impasto medium · Mineral spirits/ Water for acrylic · Paper towels · Brushes for Oil or Acrylic Painting · A can or jar for mineral spirits/water · A bag for trash · A clip to clip your trash bag to your easel or tripod · An easel or paint box · Canvas Artist Board or Paper
Anything else you may be comfortable to use.
Ask with any questions. Free, open to the public, and relaxing fun!
Our Saturday, May 2nd, 2020 lineup is amazing! Set your alarm and enjoy a day of relaxing creativity! Free!
Luke MacNeil 10am – 1pm
Luke will be guiding us through the restful, relaxing, serene practice of creating mandalas. Mandalas are repetitive designs which bring about calm and contemplation. Learn how to make and enjoy your own mandalas!
ONLINE VIRTUAL ON FACEBOOK!
Let us know what else you’d like him to talk about!
Hang out and chat, work along with him, and enjoy your Saturday morning!
Come join Laura in her studio for an amazingly fun paint session! You can just watch and chat or you can paint along! Use oil paints or acrylic paints, your choice. This session is all about the relaxing palette knife style. With this, you’re moving thick sections of paint around. You don’t need a palette knife. You can use a straight-edged kitchen knife, a credit card, or anything else that is reasonably thick. Be creative!
Introduction to Drawing and Painting with Oils Session 1 – Garden Bicycle
Tools & Supplies · Artist Grade Oil Paint · White, Yellow Ochre, Light Yellow, Phthalo Rose, Red, Ultra Marine Blue, and Prussian Blue · Grey Pad Disposable Paper Palette, Paint Palette of your choosing · Oil Impasto Mediums/Drying Oil/Drying Medium · Odorless Mineral Spirits · Paper towels or cloth rags · Brushes for Oil Painting · Palette Knife – ‘Trowel Shaped’ · Can or jar for the Mineral Spirits · Bag for Trash · Clip for your trash bag to attach to your easel or tripod · An easel or paint box · Ruler · Canvas Artist Board · Pencil · Journal, Sketch or Scrap paper · Anything else you think you may need to be comfortable · Print outs available
Content: I will discuss the importance of using a journal in painting. The practice of shape recognition and identifying the basic shapes necessary within the project image to construct the basis of the portrait. The use of this technique will help to define the composition and placement on the canvas.
The steps to color mixing using a limited palette to develop the color scheme. Making of new color combinations starting with the darkest of darks to the lightest of lights. Demonstration of the technique I use to accomplish this color making process. A discussion on additives or mediums used including drying oil and resin.
Demonstration of tools and techniques used in the application of the paint to the canvas and portrait construction. This is a beginners basic painting class. No prior experience is required and the ultimate goal is to get the basics down to build a foundation. Additional sessions will be added to my Go Live Videos to fine tune what you have learned and we hope to help you find your creative style.
Ask with any questions. Free, open to the public, and relaxing fun!
Our “Monochrome” show at the Milford TV station for May-June 2020 is going to be online virtually! We are in the process of assembling that show. Here is a feature by Bob Evans to demonstrate what we are creating.
When we’re complete, we’ll share a video slideshow which combines the artists’ images along with a description of what the images are about.
If you’re a BVAA artist, please send those JPG images to us! We’ll then contact you about putting together the audio side. We can read words for you, if you’d rather not speak yourself.
Our Saturday, April 25th, 2020 lineup is amazing! Set your alarm and enjoy a day of relaxing creativity! Free!
Luke MacNeil 10am – 1pm
ONLINE VIRTUAL ON FACEBOOK!
Luke is absolutely amazing with his talents with Photoshop, Lightroom, and Affinity. Come on by and watch his 3-hour workshop on all sorts of cool techniques and tips. Ask him questions live.
One of the fun things he’ll cover is how to create this awesome dispersion technique. Add some fantasy to your images!
Let us know what else you’d like him to talk about!
Hang out and chat, work along with him, and enjoy your Saturday morning!
Come join Laura in her studio for an amazingly fun paint session! You can just watch and chat or you can paint along! Use oil paints or acrylic paints, your choice. This session is all about the relaxing palette knife style. With this, you’re moving thick sections of paint around. You don’t need a palette knife. You can use a straight-edged kitchen knife, a credit card, or anything else that is reasonably thick. Be creative!
Supplies:
Artist Oil Color and Acrylic Artist Color or Comparable: white, yellow ochre, light yellow, red, blue
· Grey Pad Disposable Paper Palette/Plate anything · oil: Impasto Mediums/ Walnut oil/ drying medium or Acrylic: impasto medium · Mineral spirits/ Water for acrylic · Paper towels · Brushes for Oil or Acrylic Painting · A can or jar for mineral spirits/water · A bag for trash · A clip to clip your trash bag to your easel or tripod · An easel or paint box · Canvas Artist Board or Paper
Anything else you may be comfortable to use.
Ask with any questions. Free, open to the public, and relaxing fun!
In the morning from 10-12 Luke will present a fascinating look at different ways to create art – even “paint” – using your computer. He’ll explore Affinity, a software program that lets you paint with your computer. It has a free 90-day trial so you can test it out.
From 12-1 Dennis Smith will show us how to use GarageBand on an iPad. This amazing software lets you create your own musical background for your painting videos, or just for fun.
From 1-3 talented artist Laura O. Cenedella will do a live painting session, showing you how to paint a beautiful forsythia still life with watercolors, pen and ink. Perfect for spring! You can paint with any medium you want, of course. You’ll get to see her at-home studio and ask questions! It’ll take place on her Facebook page.
Making one-minute time lapse videos is an incredibly useful skill to learn. Sure, it’s lovely to have that 20-minute or 30-minute narrated walkthrough of how to paint something. But then it’s also very helpful for marketing to have a one-minute time lapse version, start to finish.
The one-minute video version can then be posted on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok – all platforms that have a short length limit. You can use those other feeds to catch viewers’ attention and then direct them to YouTube or Facebook or wherever else you have the full length video posted.
Here’s how to do this in Adobe Premiere. If you’re using another software package, let us know what it is and we’ll help you figure out the steps.
Adobe Premiere
Open up your video file in Adobe Premiere. You probably already have it in there from making the full length video. For this short version, don’t bother with any title screens or anything else. You just want the video itself.
Click on the video-audio pairing to select it. Right-click and unlink the audio-video. Click OFF the video-audio so they are unselected. Then click just on the audio track. Delete it. Otherwise you’ll get chipmunk-audio when you shrink the time.
Right-click on the video track. Go into Time Stretch. You want the number to be BIGGER THAN 100 to speed it up. If your clip is 10 minutes and you want it to be 1 minute, change that 100 to 1000. See what the time is. If it’s still longer than 1 minute, increase that 1000 slowly until you get under 1 minute.
For YouTube / Facebook – Publish/Share, Computer, MPEG, and I use HDTV 1080 24p. The file it makes will be great for those two platforms.
For Instagram / Twitter / TikTok – Publish/Share, Mobile, iPad, iPad widescreen high quality. This is the file format those platforms use. When loading onto TikTok make sure you rotate your video on the first screen so it fills the window.
It can be rough if you’re stuck inside your house without access to your normal routine. Artists around the world are providing live-streaming feeds from their home studios, letting us explore creativity and learn more about their styles!
These are just a few options – let us know if there are more we should add in!
