POP Visits Flanders Nature Center Saturday 10/4

Final Season Event at Flanders Nature Center, Saturday, October 4th, 2014

Flanders offers many views perfect for painting.  

Pomperaug Outdoor Painters (POP) will host a free painting/sketching event in Woodbury at the Flanders Nature Center October 4^th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  The nature center is located at 5 Church Hill Road.  Flanders offers preserved pastoral scenes with barns, colonial architecture, ponds and a variety of fields with hiking trails, and the home and former studio of noted artist Natalie Van Vleck – many painting opportunities for artists. The event is free and open to artists of all skill levels to come and sketch or paint for the day—no instruction provided. Young painters welcome with a parent.  Parking is adjacent to the center.  Participants should bring an easel and art supplies, water, bug spray, a sack lunch.  Group will break for lunch around noon.  Facilities available.  Rain cancels.

Directions to event: from I-84, Exit 15, travel North on Route 6, pass through Woodbury, then turn left on Flanders Road.  Center will be at the intersection of Flanders Road and Church Hill Road. 

Painters to Gather at Southford Falls 9-27 (note DATE CHANGE)

Pomperaug Outdoor Painters Event at Southford Falls, Saturday, September 27th, 2014

Photo by Robin Seabury, State of CT Photo Gallery

Pomperaug Outdoor Painters (POP) will host a free painting/sketching event in Southbury at Southford Falls Saturday, September 26^th 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m, in cooperation with the Southbury Historical Society.  Southford Falls, located off Route 188, offers water views (lake, and waterfall spillway from old Diamond Match Factory) and painting opportunities for artists. The event is free and open to artists of all skill levels to come and sketch or paint for the day—no instruction provided. Young painters welcome with a parent.  Parking is adjacent to the park.  Participants should bring an easel and art supplies, water, bug spray, a sack lunch.  Group will break for lunch around noon.  Facilities available.  Non-artists may enjoy the moderate hiking terrain.  Rain cancels.

POP is a “plein air” (outdoor) painting group formed to promote landscape painting in all media, camaraderie amongst local artists, and to help in the preservation of natural and historical spaces in Southbury and the surrounding area.  

Directions to event: from I-84, Exit 15, travel South on Route 6, turn right on Route 188.  Park will be on left hand side of 188.