For quite some time now I have wanted to try out a Paint Nite! I have been following their page for a while and have seen many friends take part and post their awesome artwork at the end of the evening! Between our kids extra curricular schedules and where the Paint Nite’s are hosted, it has not been super easy for me to go. Candice went to her first Paint Nite in the Fall and assured me that I would love it! We looked at paintings together and found one that we both loved on a night that worked great for both of us! And of course GroupOn played a part! We found an awesome deal!
The thought of cherry blossoms makes me think of the Washington area and although I was not fortunate to be there either time during their bloom I had seen so many pictures of the amazing landmarks with the trees in bloom! This painting made me excited!
So for all of you that have never had a Paint Nite experience and have thought that you may not be able to do it, you are so wrong! I can follow lots of crafty things on Pinterest with the girls and we duplicate them as best as we can, but I am far from an artist person! If I can paint, so can you!
We arrived 15 minutes early as they suggested and we walked in to the back part of a restaurant in Bedford. Everything was set up and we found two seats together, but within a good viewing distance of the Artist and her painting! I looked at my pallet and was surprised to see that I had 4 colors lol! Black, red, blue and white. That is when Candice informed me that I would be making all of my colors and shades with those colors.
The Artist was so funny! She had me laughing many times throughout the night! She explains the brushes and your basic supplies and then you get started! She first had us paint half of our canvas white and then put dots of blue all over the white section, then we started to blend. We did the same with the lower half and the black dots. Once she explains, she then puts on the music so that you can work on it on your own and chat with those around you! Such a great casual setting, no pressure at all, the restaurant staff also come around so you can order drinks or desserts! I was so tempted by their dessert menu, but given that I had never painted anything like this before I decided falling in love with a piece of cake probably should not be my focus lol!
Once our background was set, we had to start our tree! It is impressive how she had us line up everything with dots and then connect them to create the base of our tree. From there we were on our own to make the branches how we liked with some suggestions from her. Next was the fence, another connect the dot section and then a lesson on shading. You really do take little steps the whole way along. It is so impressive to me how it all comes together! I love that each person can also create their own take on it. Some people had more posts to their fences, some more branches, thicker branches, bluer sky, etc. It was so neat to see how each person transformed their painting into their own.
The last step was the hardest for me. The blossoms were created literally by tapping the brush in the different shades of pink that I created and just putting them all over the tree. The type A in me wanted more of a guideline for them lol, but it comes together quickly. The two and a half hours flew by, but were so much fun! I found myself looking at upcoming Paint Nite’s shortly after I came home. I have so many spots in our home that I can picture paintings!
I was so thankful to be able to go through a Paint Nite before Caile’s fundraiser in March. And now I am even more excited to take part in it. It is a painting I have seen a few times, I just love tree scenes and I am excited to paint it! I really think anyone and everyone can take part in a Paint Nite and have a great time! I had a woman sitting beside me, that has done a few of them and she just loves getting out, that was her focus. There were others that were definitely very artistic and it was neat to see their focus on what they were creating! Candice and I had a great time and it was nice to get out and have fun as well as grown up conversation! 🙂
I Dream of Summer 
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