Go wine to paint a picture(painting events)
It's what's in the US: art parties. With the cup they give you a blank canvas, four brushes and an open bar of paints. At last you can say that you paint something in a bar
No one wonders what's up in this bar. With the drink you get four brushes, a blank canvas and an open bar of acrylic colors. "Haven't you ever painted?
Perfect”, they tell you with a Mona Lisa smile . You adjust your apron with the same epic feeling as when Bertin Osborne puts it on in his kitchen. The name does not deceive: Art Bar . It offers "paint, drinks and fun."
It's what's popular in the US: paint and sip , they call it there (something like paint and sips). You have a drink, talk and take a painting home. “These are the fastest growing businesses in Los Angeles,” says Alisa , the hostess. She and her husband, Bruce , a painter and teacher, come from there. They moved to Barcelona in December, they opened the Arte Bar just seven months ago.
The New York Times agrees with them : one of the franchises that has grown the most in the US this year -detailed the newspaper- is Painting With a Twist . His war cry: "It's fun art, not fine art!" (it's fun art, not fine art).
Seven p.m. The painters are arriving. Hello, hello. Looks like a UN hangout. Each one is from a country: Greece, Russia, China, Brazil, Scotland, Holland, Australia. It is the first blank canvas for everyone except Natalia. The Russian repeats for the third time.
You sit before the canvas. To your right you have a palette with seven colors, a jar of water, four brushes. They play music. You prepare yourself: you take a brush with one hand, the wine with the other.
Bruce shows a painting of a colorful skull. "I'm going to show you how it's done." Nervous giggles. The first challenge seems manageable: choose the background color of the canvas. “You start to decide things as an artist,” Bruce congratulates you. There are three hours left.
PAINT LIKE WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD
Bruce is giving step by step instructions. Each one paints the skull in his style. «It reflects how you do things in life», Angela, one of the neophyte painters, Colombian, will reveal at the end. If you regret in life-she compares her-you will erase a lot on the canvas.
Your skull dangerously takes the form of an alien. Minutes later he will look like a thief in a balaclava. "This isn't photography," Bruce tells you as soon as he sees you hesitate. It is painting, with its imperfections.
Alisa repeats it to you between wine and wine: «Perfection is boring». What it's all about, they say, is "have fun, relax and be creative." Paint like when you were a child.
There are moments of chatter, moments of silence, some gaze as concentrated as that of the girl from 'Stranger things' . Her mind is blank, just pending the brushstroke. "It's an active meditation," Angela agrees, putting the finishing touches on her painting.
What did you like the most? (Painting Class)
"The atmosphere, It's true: it seems easier to gain confidence with fingers stained with paint. The stay has been extended an hour. Bruce picks up your artwork, he shows you how it looks on a wall. Hey, you don't look so bad.
