Painting with a Twist!

This past weekend I got to do something that I've always wanted to do and just never did, until we just...did! Painting. With a twist. The twist probably meaning BYOB and what not, so there were some pretty interesting conversations and people watching going on. Including a 12 year old Birthday Girl talking about her "5 shades of gray" paint on her canvas, and the lady with the club dress (with heels!) that definitely thought it was appropriate painting attire. We went with a group of friends and it was a blasty blast! Definitely want to go back since they had some really cool looking paintings on the walls that I want to try.

I'm more of a drawer, not a painter, so this was fun to branch out and see how it came out.

Begin!

Add some dark scary sky and a shark fin road:

Action shot!

That is NOT a chocolate covered strawberry....

Got some trees in there

Annnnnnd the finish! I ruined my most perfect sky (from above said pic) because I accidentally got a white streak right in my sky and had to "try" and fix, which ended up not being the right color and my awesome mix of sky clouds turned more into an abrupt storm cloud.

Boys did good!

Us! As a whole!

Overall it was pretty neat and can't wait to try again! It's great for a group, or just a couple of people to get lost and try something different for 3 hours.

*My inner artist is satisfied :)

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