Boston Flora

Tag: Painting

  • Monday, November 18, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Potluck & Paint Night

    As we celebrate National Native American Heritage Month this November, we’re thrilled to announce our next Monthly Meet-Up: a Potluck and Paint Night in collaboration with the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB)!

    Join us for a shared meal and a guided painting session with Geraldine Barney, an artist-in-residence known for her captivating work. Bringing a dish to the potluck is optional but encouraged—you’re welcome to enjoy the food even if you don’t bring anything. This event is for BHWOCC members. If you identify as a woman of color working in green or blue spaces, you’re invited to join us! To learn more about the Boston Harbor Women of Color Coalition, visit @bhwocc on Instagram or visit http://bhwocc.org

    📅 Date: Monday, November 18, 2024
    🕕 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    📍 Location: 105 S Huntington Ave, Jamaica Plain, MA

  • Wednesday, October 18 – Friday, October 20, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Painting Fall Treasures

    Learn to paint the autumnal treasures that can be found in abundance at this time of year, in this three-day Wellesley College Botanic Garden workshop with two noted botanical artists, Dianne Sutherland and Shevaun Doherty. You will draw and paint a small “table top” collection of subjects, such as richly colored leaves, seed pods, and small, jewel-like fruits. You are encouraged to bring in your own subjects, but subject material will also be provided. Dianne specializes in leaves and Shevaun in fruits, but they are both familiar with all subjects. Benefit from more individual instructor time per student as both Dianne and Shevaun work cooperatively to support the class in the learning process. You will learn about lighting subjects, composing the page, and watercolor techniques such as washes and color mixing. The class takes place October 18 – 20 from 9:30 – 3:30. Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Garden $450, nonmembers $550. Register at 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu. Image copyright Shevaun Doherty.

  • Paint Your Tree Fence!

    The Garden Club of the Back Bay has installed over 100 tree fences throughout the neighborhood.  The last couple of winters have been tough on our fences, some of which were first installed in 2009, and while we did not initially intend to maintain the fences, we now have an excellent painting contractor who is willing, for a short time, to paint the old fences for the amazing price of $150 per fence.  He has a minimum order threshold of 30 fences.  He will scrape, clean the rust, prime and paint with a very tough enamel paint.  The company repainted the cross fences on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall and that excellent job has held up quite well.  The deadline for ordering is May 1.  You may send a check made out to The Garden Club of the Back Bay in the amount of $150 per fence to Margaret Pokorny, 384 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA 02115.  Please include the address of the fence – use the nearest house number address for each fence.  Or you may pay online at https://bostonflora.com/product/garden-club-tree-fence-painting/  We will contact you for the fence address, or you may email the information to info@bostonflora.com.  If you identify any repair work which needs to be done, let us know in your correspondence.

    We regret we are unable to offer this service for fences not installed by The Garden Club of the Back Bay.

  • Fridays, March 22 – April 26, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Jill Pottle: Painting Materials and Methods with Oils and Acrylics

    Jill Pottle will present a six week course at Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Road in Harvard, Massachusetts, intended for beginnings and returning painters/artists who want to acquire fundamental painting skills and conceptual understanding of contemporary approaches to painting in oils and acrylics.  The course will repeat in May, September, and November, with complete dates and times found on the web site, www.fruitlands.org.  Fruitlands members $180, nonmembers $210.  Registration is required by emailing education@fruitlands.org or by calling 978-456-3924, x. 239.

  • Saturday, February 20, 1 – 3 pm – Summer in Winter: Paintings by Anthony Apesos

    The Arnold Arboretum invites you to a reception with artist Anthony Apesos on Saturday, February 20, from 1 – 3 pm, at the Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall in the Arnold Arboretum.  The exhibit, Summer in Winter, will be on view January 9, 2010 through March 3, 2010, and Mr. Apesos will also give an artist talk on Thursday, February 25, from 6:30 to 8 pn.  For more information log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu.

    Anthony Apesos has been painting the Arboretum since he moved to Jamaica Plain in the early 1990s. His recent series of paintings shows the Arboretum at the height of summer’s verdant glory. A perfect antidote to winter weather, Apesos depicts the wide-ranging Arboretum landscape in deep summer, from the rugged outcrops of Hemlock Hill to the meadows from which dawn redwoods spring.

    Anthony Apesos is a professor of painting and art history at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. His paintings are inspired by such landscape artists as George Inness, John Constable, and Samuel Palmer.