Category: Field Trips

Here we go! A few photos from our Tower Hill field trip last week!

https://bvaa.org/past-events/past-events-2016/past-events-2016-tower-hill-botanic-garden/

Reminder! The BVAA has a fun field trip to the Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Wed April 27, 2016!

We’ll be there starting at 2pm – come on out and join us!

Tower Hill Field Trip – Full Details

Carol Frieswick, Becky Smith, and several other BVAA painters are organizing a loose plein air group to enjoy the warmer months. Here’s a photo of the group out on Sat April 12, 2016.

If you’d like to get notices about when the group will go out to paint, please let us know at INFO at BVAA.ORG. Let us know if you prefer weekdays or weekends, the time of day that works well for you, and so on.

As you might imagine, the field trips will be dependent on weather.

Breathe in the fresh spring air! The BVAA is taking a field trip to the Tower Hill Botanical Garden on Wednesday, April 27th, 2016.

Tower Hill reports that their daffodil field is now at its peak, so it’s the time to go! And Wednesday is forecast for sunny weather. Because of the warm winter the field isn’t as lush as it’s been in years past, but it’ll still be a fun opportunity for great photography and painting!

More info on Tower Hill –

https://www.towerhillbg.org/

Let us know at the main INFO @ BVAA.org email address if you’d like to join us. The plan is to go in mid-afternoon when it’s both sunny and warm. Most people are arriving around 2pm but earlier or later is quite fine. Contact Lisa via text or cell or her gmail.com email address once you get there if you’d like to hook up. Or just meander over to the daffodils :).

Also, Tower Hill is running a photography contest. The photo must have been taken between April 1 and April 30, 2016 at Tower Hill. Check out the full details and enter!

https://towerhillbotanicgarden.tumblr.com/post/141848803334/contest-submit-your-best-daffodil-photo

The weather is looking great, so we are a GO for the Shaw Farm Photo Shoot on Friday, March 18th at 5-6pm in Sutton MA!

Here is where we will be meeting up:

Please bring good solid walking shoes and appropriate clothing – the barn is in rough shape and there is broken glass.

Coming from 146:

Take the Central Turnpike exit (exit 7) in Sutton and head west. This will be left if you’re on 146N and right if you’re on 146S. The intersection with Putnam Hill Road is just over three miles down. It’s where the Blue Jay Restaurant used to be, if you know the area. Take the right onto Putnam Hill Road, and then the right onto Shaw Lane.

Drive all the way up to the top of the hill, turn around, and then park on the right side (the north side) of the road facing back toward Putnam Hill Road. That way we can try to keep the cars out of our photos.

It should be an interesting field trip!

Let us know if you have any questions.

There are a number of gorgeous vintage barns in Sutton. We’ll be taking a field trip to photograph some! Our aim is to do is Thursday, March 18th from 5-6pm, weather permitting. If you’re interested in joining us, let us know!

A number of us are interested in going on a field trip to take photos of star trails. That’s when you point your camera at the sky for a long period of time and capture how the stars move across the sky –

We’d have to go north of Worcester to get away from the light pollution, since you generally want to aim your camera north for these. You also generally want to shoot during a new moon so there’s as little moonlight light pollution as possible. The March 2016 new moon is on Wednesday, March 9th.

This will depend greatly on the weather – let us know if you’re interested! We’re planning to try it in Northbridge around 7pm.

Reminder! On Tuesday, January 5th the BVAA is hosting a field trip to the Greyscale Art Show at the Aurora Gallery in Worcester Massachusetts. The gallery will be specially open for us between 3-4pm on Tuesday.

Let Lisa know if you’re interested in joining us!

Here are some photos from the Greyscale show. Several BVAA members are participating in this show.

https://bvaa.org/past-events/past-events-2015/greyscale-art-show-aurora-worcester/

The historic Aurora building is on 660 Main Street, Worcester, MA. You can park on the street or, if that’s full, go down Ionic Avenue which is nearly immediately across the street from the Aurora. About a half-block down on the right is a big parking lot behind the Masonic building – you can park there. Don’t park in the lot ON Main Street – that’s a private lot.

More details about the Aurora:

https://artsworcester.org/exhibits/the-aurora/

We had a blast tonight in Worcester taking photos of diners, neon signs, trains, and more! We even ate here afterwards. Fun! We’ll all post a collection of photos soon!

Worcester MA Night street photography field trip is tonight Wed 12/30 6pm! Come on out!

https://www.facebook.com/events/164040963955850/