Paint Nite - getting creative!

Back in January (?), my friends all agreed to purchase a Groupon for Paint Nite.  Paint Nite is one of those fun painting activities where you go to a different location and paint a picture. The plan is in about 2  hours you will have a painting you completed all by yourself and you don't need to bring anything but a good "can do" attitude.  You pick your date and location based on the picture planned for that date and location.  Well last night was our night.

The Paint Nite was planned at a bar in my neck of the woods, Piper Down Pub.  They had round tables set up for 3 people at each table.  I was at a table with my friend Stacy and her mom, Gayle (Mama Gayle...as I've referred to her before).  Before me was a table top easel with a blank white canvas.  We put our acrylic paints on a Styrofoam plate and picked up 3 brushes from the leader, Grace. I'm guessing there were like 30 people there?  7 from my group including me.






Grace, our fearless leader and owner.

Grace was a great teacher.  Very optimistic, organized, and helped guide us "non-painters" through the steps to end up with something we created.  She has a sample of the picture already painted so we knew where we were headed but she also had a blank canvas she worked on with us.  She encouraged us all to drink along the way. In fact, she would encourage us that if we were trying to control it too much and think too much about it, it was a good indication we needed a refill.  I stuck with water...thinking about my poor liver.

We started by making a blue gradient background.  We let it dry then moved on to white, yellow and green grasses (mine look like worms to me).  Then we put in the large glowing fireflies (some called them nipples) and then little dots for smaller fireflies.  At the last, we were given some red paint to make orange with and we put some small additions of contrast.



Me and Stacy

Koli and Kim





I did it.  Paint on the white!

My grass start (worms)

In process.  I'm on the far left. 
You can see my hand.



Gayle, Me, Stacy

As promised, we were all done within 2 hours.  Everyone had a painting that they created themselves and honestly, I think everyone was very pleased.  Grace took lots of photos and we took lots of photos.  We dumped our plates of leftover paint in the trash, put our brushes and aprons in bins, and we were free to leave.  The girls went out to dinner but it was too late for me to eat and I wanted to get home and get Philip off to bed at a decent hour.

It was great fun.  I simply love these girls.  They do fun stuff and they are fun to be around.  If you have a chance to go to a paint party, I highly recommend it.



Finished!  Top - Koli, Christine, Jen, Stacy.  Bottom - Kim, Me, Gayle