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Invite your friends or colleagues to a painting party in your home or office. This is for anyone, including those who "aren't creative or can't even draw stick men."
You will have professional instruction for the evening and you and your guests need only bring one or two photos or magazine images that interest you/them.
They/you need to bring an image with interesting shapes and colours, fruits flowers, tropical fish, landscapes etc.
The only rule is that there be no people or animals in the picture.
All materials will be provided and as canvas is stretched over its own frame everyone will have a finished , ready to hang painting to take home.
What you need to do: You should consider your space when deciding on how many guests to invite. I have one free standing easel and 6 table top easels.
We will need an average size table with about 2 1/2 to 3 feet of working room for each person. A kitchen table works well and if you have an insert, all the better.
We will also need a desk or side table for supplies. It's also great to prepare some munchies and/or beverages for your guests, preferably finger foods, easily eaten
while painting. NOTE: I do find that wine or margaritas and your favorite music tends to reduce any creative anxieties!
BOOKINGS:
Evenings starting 5:30-7 pm and ending 10-11:30 p.m. or any 5 hours on the weekend.
* Weekdays available for Office Parties
(*I suggest inviting your guests 1/2 hour before painting is to commence to mingle and allow those fashionably late to appear)
COST:
Home Parties:
Host of the party pays $40
Guests pay $65
* There is a minimum of 6 people and a maximum of 9 people
Office Parties:
$75 - $100 per participant (up to 30 people!)
(Choice of Individual or large group (team) paintings)
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This is Peggy who was open and brave in exploring creativity, play and
personal learning with her first ever painting. Thank you Peggy for allowing me to share your experience and for enriching my life with it.
Peggy's Dialogue with her first acrylic painting, painted March 11 2001; Dialogue March 19 2001:
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Me: Tell me about yourself.
Painting: I am the passion that comes out of still waters running deep. Passion turned against itself is destructive.
The dark fire on the left side is rage. The flames on the right side show the cooling rage so that the original passion comes through.
These flames are brighter, lighter, more illuminating. This passion dances, invites, leaves a trail of sparks, fireflies and stars.
Me: I felt the rage swell in my chest, pour into my shoulder, down my arm and out of my fingers into the brush and onto the canvas.
I feel more free and I know that I will now simply give expression to my creative passion.
Painting: You already began to do that in a big way when you allowed me to emerge. I know that you were scared to put brush to canvas.
I know that you felt out of your element, sure that you would "fail", sure you would be wrong.
Me: What if my greatest fear is that I am powerful beyond measure? One thing I know, if that is so, my power will go somewhere.
I have no choice about that - only about where it will go - into rage or conscious expression. Thank you. I know myself better now,
and I feel like we are friends and can make these choices together.
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