Over the weekend, I attended a fairly non-traditional baby shower. Instead of sitting around talking about the upcoming munchkin and opening presents, we all painted instead! Wine and Canvas is a company that pairs artists with groups of average folk and teaches them how to paint a specific painting, step by step. Usually, you go to a set location (restaurant, bar, club, etc), but they also do private parties, which is what happened this weekend.
This is the painting that we were supposed to paint:
It was set up at the front of the room, and our artist (Gene, I think his name was. I am terrible with names, but he was super nice!) painted a new one, along with us . When I first saw the painting, I was 100% convinced that mine would look nothing like it, and that it would not even be recognizable. I have NO artistic ability, whatsoever. It's embarrassing, really. But! After a few hours (with a decent break in the middle for dinner and more alcohol), I ended up with this:
Far from perfect, but I kinda like it. And I really liked the whole experience - so much so that I convinced my husband that we need to do one for a date night. There are a bunch scheduled in our area, so I'm sure we can find one that we want to do. They even post the paintings on their website, so if there's a painting you particularly want to do, you can choose that one!
I will never be a "real" artist, but I can see myself doing this kind of thing a few more times, just for fun. It's neat to see how it all comes together in the end. Plus, there's wine involved!
Cheers!
i LOVE your version. it's a little dark and moody, but i really love it.
ReplyDeletei've seen so many of these lately, looks like so much fun!
Ha! That's me, dark and moody. =)
DeleteI think your version is better than the original - love the lighting!!
ReplyDeleteWe have a place like that here but I've never been - I suck at all art but I do like to drink wine so....
It's really all about the wine. ;-)
DeleteI love that!! I've been looking into doing one of those with some girlfriends. Looks like such a fun time. And I'm the least creative/artistic person in the world, so if you can create such a pretty pic, maybe I can too!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely! It's such fun - highly recommend it! =)
DeleteYours turned out great! We just did this for my sister's bachelorette and everyone really enjoyed it. It's so fun to see how different everyone's version turns out! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I was surprised at how different they all were, but of course also so similar.
DeleteI've seen others post pics like that--I love the idea! Fun!! Yours is awesome!
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful! Mine would never look that good. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that's not true - I literally can't draw stick figures and make them look recognizable. I'm sure you could do this! =)
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