I’ve never considered myself a super creative person, I
would be lost without Pinterest and sometimes I think I will make the worst
elementary teacher because my room will probably not be all cutesy homemade crafts all over the place (well, except
for what the kids do!). But, what I can do is follow a model (I’m
a pro at tracing!) and follow directions.
I may not be able to come up with the idea or see the vision in the first
place, but I can sure copy what you do! (Ha.)
When one of my good friends asked me if I wanted to do a Wine & Canvas party, I was kinda skeptical. What if my painting looked terrible? I don't know if I can paint those pretty pictures I always see online. Well, I was dead wrong when I thought I could not do it. Someone asked
if I could follow directions and when I said yes, he told me that I would have
no problems.
And, you know what? He was absolutely right!
Last Thursday night about 25 people showed up to Mimi’s CafĂ©
in West Des Moines for a night of wine, painting and fun. I went with three
close friends of mine and, like the teacher’s pets that we all were (not) we
sat right up front and (im)patiently waited for the hosts to get started so we
could paint this:
Cue nerves.
You want me to
paint that?? You are not serious. I thought we were painting a tree? I can do
trees. My sister and I practiced “happy trees” with Bob Ross all the time back
in the days when the only channels we had were on basic cable. I don’t remember
doing “happy flowers” …
Luckily, my friend was right, and after about 2 hours of
following directions I ended up with this:
Do my flowers look happy?? :)
Wine & Canvas really was as simple as "following directions" and as long as you paid attention, you were fine! Also, they use all acrylic paints and couple that with the canvas and the paint can be pretty much "erased" with water and paper towels if you make a mistake. I actually had to do that once, because one of my brushes was too wet and it dripped across my painting and spread! I cleaned it up and voila! I was fine.
In addition to great directions, the artists used measurements such as the brush handle or fingers instead of inches. This made it much easier to gauge where to begin painting.
The four of us hard at work on our masterpieces!
But, besides all the painting stuff, we had the best time giggling over flower petals that looked
like inappropriate male parts (we’re immature) and drinking $5 wine flights
(score!) we all left declaring that we wanted to do it AGAIN and SOON.
Another shot of us hard at work.
Wine & Canvas just started in the Des Moines area
and I highly suggest you GO. I guarantee you will have a great
time and you will leave feeling like the next Picasso! Wine & Canvas would
be great for a girls night out or a date with your husband or boyfriend (I
swear, guys would enjoy this!). There was a couple sitting near me, and at the end of the night, the woman looked at her boyfriend and said, "If you had done this for our first date I would have married you by now!" I cracked up!
Cannot wait to do this again!
8 comments:
I always see people posting about doing this. (I think the one by me is called Corks & Canvas?) I've never done it, but think it looks like so much fun. I would love to do it someday, and even though I don't really consider myself artistic I still think I could pull it off.
I loved this event! Can't wait to do it again! Thanks for the review!!
Wow! Yours turned out great! I would have been nervous to do this as well because I have no artistic ability whatsoever. What a fun tradition for you guys!!
This is awesome! I'm going to see if I can find something like this in Toronto!!
You are so talented! And that is so pretty. Mine would never turn out that well!
I think that sounds SO FUN!! I would love to do that! And all your paintings look awesome!
How cool! That sounds like a lot of fun. and really creative!
Painting without wine is incomplete all youngsters know about it. So making colourful party painting is needed I want to know the details over it please suggest me. If you want to know the tips over painting and wine Houston then carry on it with your beloved one.
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