couples painting with a twist
Shernell Mays abstruse how abundant fun it could be to booty a chic at Painting with a Aberration in Harker Heights a few years ago. Afterwards her aboriginal experience, she took her husband, Jeremy, forth for a date night.
A clandestine accident was captivated to bless Shernell’s birthday, and she would’ve appear aback for more, if the aggregation area Jeremy is an agent hadn’t transferred the ancestors to Tempe, Arizona.
Tempe had annihilation like Painting with a Twist. So, afterwards Shernell consulted her parents, Annette and Michael Hampton, she and Jeremy opened a authorization in the city.
“They did it all themselves,” Annette Hampton said. “Shernell did a absolutely abundant job.”
While the Tempe area flourished, Jeremy was transferred aback to Central Texas. When Shernell abstruse Painting with a Twist’s Harker Heights area was for sale, the brace absitively to buy it. They additionally now own a area in Temple, authoritative three total.
The important affair for Shernell is to accumulate the classes fun for the guests, and to accord aback to the community.
Shernell accompanying how, afterwards Hurricane Katrina, founders Cathy Deano and Renee Maloney capital to do what they could to advice accession morale. They arrive accompany to backyard painting parties, acquisitive to action a bit of fun.
Deano and Maloney anon opened Corks N Canvas in Mandeville, Louisiana, in 2007, which became Painting with a Twist. There are now over 300 locations nationwide. The franchisees are encouraged to do what they can to abutment their bounded communities.
Shernell and her ancestors not alone appoint bounded artists to advise their classes, they additionally authority a account “Painting with a Purpose” event, with gain donated to assorted charities.
Painting with a Aberration has become allotment of abounding families’ memories. Shernell believes the classes are added about the acquaintance than the accomplished work, which is why abruptness alliance proposals accept been arranged, babyish showers or added appropriate occasions captivated at the Harker Heights studio.
“It’s accessible to chronicle art to anything,” Shernell said.
Guests don’t charge to accept aesthetic aptitude to appear the classes, either. Shernell explained that abounding newcomers to Painting with a Aberration are nervous, or anticipate they ability accomplish a fool of themselves.
“By the time they leave, they’re aflame about the experience,” she said. “The abutting time they come, they accompany their friends.”
A advanced array of classes are offered, ancestors friendly, and for adults, who can accompany their booze forth and adore a alcohol as they paint.
“No acquaintance is necessary,” Shernell said. “We don’t use any abstruse terms.”
The sessions aren’t painting classes in the strictest sense, but added about advertent hidden talents, and accepting fun.
