In the morning from 10-1 Luke MacNeil will be available for everything you’ve always wanted to know about Lightroom. It’s wholly free. Join us on Facebook to watch him live and chime in with what you want to learn about!
From 1-3 talented artist Laura O. Cenedella will do a live painting session, showing you how to paint this beautiful scene with oil paints! You’ll get to see her at-home studio and ask questions! It’ll take place on her Facebook page.
Supply List:
Paint Colors: Artist White Titanium White Yellow Yellow Ochre Red Ultra Marine Blue
Palette Impasto Mediums/ Walnut Oil Drying Medium Mineral Spirits
Brushes- ( Oil Painting ) 1 Inch 1/2 Inch Round Flat Filbert Rigger
Paper Towels A Can or Jar for Mineral Spirits A Palette Knife for Mixing or for Cleaning your Palette A Bag for Trash A Drop Cloth An Easel or Paint Box Canvas Artist Board
This is a virtual presentation of the “Blackstone Valley” themed art show, coordinated by the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor and the Blackstone Valley Art Association. It was showcased in the Linwood Mill Complex in Whitinsville, Massachusetts in March 2020.
Artists featured are:
James Hunt / Dock, Blackstone Canal Fall 2016 $350 Bonnie Frederico / Swan in Flight $750 Linda Nelson / Millbury Bike Path $60 Linda Nelson / Slater Mill $60 Beverly Tinklenberg / Casualty of the Blackstone $250 Carol Frieswick / A Fallen Treasure $125 Carol Frieswick / Blackstone Marsh $125 Carol Frieswick / Birding House $125 Carol Frieswick / Plummer’s Landing $125 Bob Evans / Millville Lock $50 Bob Evans / Blackstone River and Mount Wachusett $50 Brandi Van Roo / Village Congregational Church $40 Lisa Shea / Sutton Sunset $30 Libia Goncalves / Fun at River Bend Farm $60 Bob See / Sutton Gazebo $60
Contact us for information about buying originals or prints of these artworks.
In the morning from 10-1 Lisa will do an online demo of Gelli Plates with her new tripod so it’s steady :). You can paint along in the Gelli style, or paint whatever you want to paint and just chat while we work. It’ll be relaxing and lovely!
From 1-3 talented artist Laura O. Cenedella will do a live painting session, showing you how to paint this lighthouse with oil paints! You’ll get to see her at-home studio and ask questions! It’ll take place on her Facebook page.
Laura’s Supply List: M.GRAHAM&Co. Artist Oil Color and Acrylic Artist Color or Comparable White, Yellow Ochre, Red, Blue · Grey Pad Disposable Paper Palette · Impasto Mediums/ Walnut oil/ drying medium · Mineral spirits/Water · Paper towels · Brushes for Oil or Acrylic Painting · A can or jar for mineral spirits/water · A palette knife for mixing or for cleaning your palette · 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.
Due to the current health situation with the COVID-19 / Coronavirus in Massachusetts, we will *** NOT *** be holding our open paint at the Uxbridge Gallery on Saturday, March 14th, 2020.
The gallery space will be open so that those artists who need to pick up photo-show artworks can stop in to retrieve them.
Contact info@bvaa.org with any questions or to coordinate with Lisa about when you will stop by.
Be Healthy!
Our gallery and events are supported by the local cultural councils, Open Sky, and ValleyCAST.
Since February can sometimes be snowed out, we use this month for a session which is casual. We all bring in our latest works or images and then offer each other suggestions and advice. You can bring the works in in person or bring JPG images on a thumb drive for us to view on a laptop. You can bring in paintings, drawings, or sculptures. Whatever you wish! It’ll be fun, relaxed, and conversational.
Our February 2020 monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 18th from 6:30-9pm.
Location: BVAA Open Sky Uxbridge Community Gallery 5 South Main Street Uxbridge, MA 01569
This meeting and workshop is free and open to the public. No experience is necessary. The fun of our workshops is that we all try new things we’ve never done before.
Our meetings cover BVAA organization business from 6:30-7:00pm and then go into the workshop part of the evening. Feel free to come for whichever half interests you the most. In general, our monthly meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month unless otherwise announced.
All are welcome – this workshop is open to members and non-members. Feel free to bring along a friend! We’d love to see you there to try some new things and explore your creativity!
Ask with any questions!
This Uxbridge gallery is supported in part by BVAA member dues, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and by ValleyCAST. The space use is kindly donated to us by ValleyCast, the community outreach department of Open Sky Community Services. Open Sky uses this space for special-needs client activities during daytime weekdays. They allow the BVAA use of the space – and its gallery walls – on evenings and weekends. We actively support their inclusive mission. All are welcome to all of our events and activities!
The Choco l’Art fun BVAA art show is now live at the Whitinsville Library! This is a PEOPLE’S CHOICE award – please stop by and vote! Your vote determines the winner! Share the news with family and friends!
FREE fun chocolate reception this Saturday 2/15 from 10am-2pm all warmly welcome!
Thank you so much to Judith Potter for taking these photos for us!
This was a free BVAA Pastel Class -it was an awesome time with a great group of talented and fun people!!!
Instructor: Ella Delyanis.
Thank you to the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Uxbridge / Northbridge Cultural Councils for funding our demos so most of them can be discount rate or free.
The Blackstone Heritage Corridor is an organization which manages and promotes the beautiful Blackstone Valley. They have a visitor’s center in Worcester at the northern end of the “Millbury Bike Path” (we take photos here regularly). They have a central office in the Linwood Mill complex in Northbridge. They run all sorts of delightful nature walks in the area.
You can learn more about the Blackstone Heritage Corridor group here –
In their Linwood Mill office they have a gallery hall created with beautiful granite. They would like to have a display of 12 artwork items there which celebrate the beauty of the Blackstone Valley. The items can be paintings, photos, drawings, anything that can hang. You can see the area here:
The way this wall is wired is that there’s a long block of wood running the entire length of that upper area. Screws are screwed into the wood at regular intervals, with wire coming down from those screws. One then ties that wire to the wire at the back of the artwork.
The spacing allows for artwork which is about 18×22 in size or smaller. Larger art items would “run into each other”. Bonnie just measured the hooks and they are 23″ apart. Since we have art of varying sizes, we could put the 18×22 pieces alongside smaller pieces to create space.
Also, the artwork should be reasonably light. Heavy frames wouldn’t do well on this hook/wire setup.
We’re looking for 12 artists to each have an item to submit for this. The wall is currently empty, as shown. So the sooner we could get art into here, the better. Please contact info@bvaa.org if you’re interested in participating. The idea is to have the art up through March. Then in April we’d swap out for a “pollinator” show celebrating bees, butterflies, and the like, for spring.
NOTE: THIS SHOW IS CURRENTLY HUNG! THANK YOU TO THE PARTICIPANTS WHO JUMPED IN TO BE A PART OF THIS SHOW!
Where Blackstone Heritage Corridor office Linwood Mill complex (in back) 670 Linwood Avenue Whitinsville MA 01588 Blackstone Heritage Corridor Webpage
Submissions Email info@bvaa.org if you’re interested in participating. We’d like to get the art in as soon as possible. There’s no fee. Sales would give a 25% commission to the Blackstone Heritage Corridor (a great cause!).
Drop-Off This show was fully hung on Monday, January 20th, 2020. Thank you to everyone who is participating in this show!
Public Reception We are aiming for Friday, March 20th – right around the Spring Equinox! for our reception. We’re still confirming that.
