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A painting of a white egret sits in the advanced basement breadth of Painting with a Twist in Trinity area barter appear to apprentice how to paint, allotment some wine and relax afterwards a continued day at work.
This painting is what aggressive Clearwater citizen Michelle Beres to accessible the new franchise.
“Mom?” she alleged out.
The egret backward until a accumulate scurried bottomward a timberline and afraid it off. Beres took it as a assurance of her mother acknowledging her safe access to the added ancillary and acquainted comforted.
Later, an ad appeared on the ancillary of her Facebook folio for an accessible chic at a business in St. Petersburg alleged "Painting With a Twist."
The painting appointed for that accurate day was a white egret.
Beres anon appointed the class.
“I knew I was accomplishing the egret painting for my mother,” Beres said.
Beres fell in adulation with the vibe of the place, she said. Its affable owners, care-free atmosphere and fun barter who came to paint, some for the aboriginal time in their lives, alleged to her.
“By the time I was done [with the painting], I knew this is what I capital to do,” Beres said.
Later, Beres approached her best friend, New Port Richey citizen Sharon Reis, with a business opportunity- to accessible a Painting With a Twist franchise.
Painting With a Twist is a civic alternation of businesses that offers painting classes with an adviser to advance you step-by-step through the painting and let barter accompany their own wine. They do fundraisers for bounded schools and nonprofits area allotment of the gain from a chic are donated.
Beres took Reis to the chic in St. Pete, who additionally fell in adulation with the abstraction of the business, and they began the action of architecture the foundation of what is not alone job, but a calling.
Beres likens the activity of owning Paintng With a Twist to actuality in love.
“This is our passion,” Beres said. “We leave our absolute jobs and appear here. It’s like falling in love. You get asinine and brainless and so aflame you can’t angle it.”
At the Trinity franchise, barter are greeted by Beres and Reis as they airing in the aperture and arrive to aces an accessory blind from adjacent hooks. The abutting few account are abounding with the complete of corks actuality popped from wine bottles and afraid amusement from amateur painters.
Reis reassures the ladies, and one gentleman, that at the end of the night, they’ll be walking abroad with a painting so amazing they won’t accept they corrective it themselves. If they get nervous, booty a sip of wine and a abysmal animation and accumulate going.
During the weekdays, Reis works for a ancestors law advocate and Beres is a activity coordinator for the Pinellas County government.
But what they absolutely adulation to do is paint.
Beres and Reis said they’re alive to accomplish Painting With a Twist their full-time jobs.
“When you alpha accomplishing what you love, it’s not like a job,” Beres said.
Growing up, Reis’ aesthetic ancillary was encouraged by her father. A allotment of her is represented at the Trinity studio, too. A larger-than-life paintbrush with the words “Keep Painting”- her father’s aftermost words to her on his deathbed- is army over the advanced desk.
Reis hasn’t aghast him. Several nights a week, she, Beres and three added advisers at Painting With a Twist get in advanced of the board and adviser amateur painters through the conception of their own masterpieces.
The Trinity authorization opened Oct. 14 and has been appealing abundant appointed anytime since, Reis said. The chic fee includes the apron, canvas, paints, brushes and the fun- lots and lots of fun- Beres said.
Mike Wagner and his wife Mary are St. Pete association but are acceptable accompany of Beres and Reis. This is the additional time they’ve apprenticed out to Trinity for the chic and they accomplish a date night of it, alike booking a auberge so they don’t accept to drive home.
“I’m an architect and acclimated to cartoon angles and dejected prints so this is tough,” Wagner said. “ But it’s at a point now area there are no worries. It’s your own affair so you can’t blend it up.”
“Everybody is analytical of their own painting but did you apprehend them auspicious everybody abroad on?” Wagner said.
Debora Viggiano, the arch of , hasn’t corrective aback she was a kid.
“I anticipate it brought you aback to accomplishing article you never booty the time out to do and again you accept the painting to bethink the night,” Viggiano said.
A two-hour chic costs $35 per being and a three-hour chic is $45. Flat appointment hours are Monday-Friday, 1-4 p.m. The abode is 8351 S.R. 54 Suite 112, Trinity, Fla. 34655. For added information, alarm (727) 376-1112 or visit www.paintingwithatwist.com/trinity.
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Originally appear Nov 17, 2011.
