Showing posts with label dillon beach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dillon beach. Show all posts

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Join us Sunday May 25th for our 52nd NBPA @ Toluma Farm and Farmstead Creamery (Tomales, CA) 10:30am - 4:00pm


Greetings Painters! We will be collaborating with the wonderful Art on the Farm group for this month's paintout! We will be visiting the Toluma Farm located in Tomales, Ca. which offers fantastic rolling hills, barns, sheep, goats and more! Many thanks to Colleen ProppĂ© for allowing us to join their group at such a beautiful location!


(Photo copyrights belong to Toluma Farms ©2014)
Please arrive before 11am for a guided tour with owner Tamara Hicks to learn about the farm, goats and cheese making!  

TOLUMA FARMS & TOMALES FARMSTEAD CREAMERY 
5488 Middle Road 
Tomales, CA 94971
http://www.tolumafarms.com

***MUST PRINT AND SIGN WAIVER BEFORE PAINTING ON LOCATION***
http://cproppe.com/fine_art/downloads_files/MarinOrganicWaiver2012.pdf





Agenda: 
10:30am - 11:00am - Brief meetup and tour by owner Tamara Hicks. IMPORTANT TO MEET ON TIME! 

11:00am - 12:00pm - TOUR
12:00pm - 3:30 - Let's Paint!

3:30pm - 4:00pm - Let's briefly meetup to share our findings, techniques or just to chat (not a critique).
Restrooms: Yes
Cell phone coverage: ONLY Verizon.
Directions: 
From Highway 101 take the Petaluma/Washington Avenue Exit
Go West to Bodega Bay (Washington Avenue becomes Bodega Avenue)
Drive 8 miles from Petaluma looking for a "Dillon Beach/Tomales" sign as well as Coast Guard Sign.
Make a left (there is a left hand turn pocket and you will be on Petuluma-Tomales Rd), go 7 1/2 miles to HWY 1.
Take a Right and you are now in the town of Tomales.
Make a left on Dillon Beach Rd (go 1 mile).
Make a Right on Middle Road (3/4 mile).

Toluma Farms is the 2nd farm on the left.

Parking:
Yes
There will be parking along the Middle road. A couple hundred feet down from the farm there is an inlet that has additional parking.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Pet-Friendly Paint-out At Dillon Beach: March 11, 2013

My friend Carole Gray-Weihman is hosting a free paint-out this Monday courtesy of pleinairliaison.com at Dillon Beach. If you also RSVP at this link here, you will receive a packet with more details: http://www.pleinairliaison.com/#!rsvp-plein-air-events/c1xr5

Pet-Friendly Paint-out At Dillon Beach
Monday, March 11, 2013

3:00 PM To 6:00 PM

March 11, 2013
For Beginners to Professional Plein Air Painters
Location: Cliff St (x Beach Ave) in Dillon Beach, CA
Cost: Free (Bring $7 for parking fee)
Hours: 3pm - 6pm (painting) & 6pm - 7pm (meet & greet in lot)
Visit www.pleinairliaison.com or 707-291-7756 to RSVP
Fun & non-competitive
Painters of all levels
Casual critiques if desired
Bring your own easel , equipment , food & refreshment

Join us for plein air painting on a beautiful coastal beach. Fun for
all with or without your 4-legged friends. Dillon Beach is a short
drive west of Tomales through pastoral hills dotted with farmhouses and grazing cows. Dillon Beach offers tide pools, grassy
sand dunes, soft white sand, a surfer's haven, a painters delight,
and one mile of flat sandy beach - a must see, stay and explore,
on the Northern Marin Coast!


Distances to other popular spots from Dillon Beach:
San Francisco Airport – 1.5 hours
Bodega Bay - 20 minutes
Muir Woods - 50 minutes
Tomales Bay - 20 minutes
Point Reyes Seashore - 40 minutes
Sierra Nevada Mountain Range - 3 hours
Napa/Sonoma/Russian River Wine Valleys - 45 minutes