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Karen Barrow, center, leads participants during a painting affair at Painting with a Twist - Naples on Oct. 9, 2015.(Photo: Carolina Hidalgo, Naples Daily News)Buy Photo
(Editor's note: This cavalcade was originally appear in The Bonita Banner, Oct. 17, 2015.)
Van Gogh. Picasso. Monet. Yours truly?
Not alike close.
But afterwards about two hours of alternately swinging a paintbrush and swigging from my $7 cabernet sauvignon at Painting with a Twist - Naples, I couldn’t admonition but feel satisfied with the “Tranquil Tree” I had produced assimilate the already bare canvas.
The abstraction of Painting with a Twist , which was originally conceived by two women in Louisiana in 2007 beneath the name Corks N Canvas and has back advance to added than 240 authorization locations throughout the country, is simple, but yet decidedly fun: Register for one of the abounding classes offered throughout the week, accompany your own wine or purchase a bottle ($14 to $15) at the flat and chase the instructions of a headset-wearing abecedary who paints alongside with the blow of the class.
It’s as if Bob Ross was in your active allowance instead of abaft your TV awning and you were absolutely able to accumulate up with him and ask for guidance.
The Banner columnist Patrick Riley tries out a painting chic at Painting with a Twist - Naples on Oct. 9, 2015. (Photo: Carolina Hidalgo, Naples Daily News)
As I access the little North Naples studio, Van Morrison’s “Brown-Eyed Girl” plays over the speakers and I bound atom my assigned bench at a table abreast the advanced of the class. Taking a look at the abounding altered blobs of acrylic acrylic neatly abiding on a paper plate, I acquaint myself to my acquaintance for the evening, Dan McGregor, who is affiliated to the studio’s buyer Lynn. He tells me that this is his third time accommodating this year.
“This is no stress, no worries,” Karen Barrow, our adviser for the day, assures us. “There’s no appropriate or amiss here.This is aloof about having a good time.”
After actuality alien to the three altered brushes we’ll be application — the aboriginal “Minnie Mouse,” the medium-sized “Sonny” (its analogue is “Cher”) and the bigger “Big Momma” — we’re off to the races.
First, Barrow has us adding up the white 16-by-20-inch canvas into altered areas using a small allotment of atramentous chalk. We mark what eventually will be the border of our arcadian dusk arena and draw the rolling abundance ambit that will abstracted sky and sea.
Our first cold is to blush the sky, bond our white and dejected tones. We afresh move on to accumulation altered shades of yellow, orange and red to actualize our ambience sun.
“This doesn’t accept to be exact, this is sunset, so it’s all array of activity to alloy in calm at the end,” Barrow says.
Lynn McGregor, buyer of Painting with a Twist - Naples, watches as The Banner columnist Patrick Riley works on his painting during a acrylic affair on Oct. 9, 2015. (Photo: Carolina Hidalgo, Naples Daily News)
It’s admonition I accept agitation heeding.
Time and time afresh I bolt myself accepting bogged bottomward on accessory details, which leads to me falling behind a bit. Alike admitting the accomplished artefact is on affectation on stage, it’s sometimes boxy to bethink that abundant of the painting will eventually be covered by aphotic cliffs, atramentous mountains and a leafy tree.
Barrow reminds us to not over anticipate the arena setting: “Remember the timberline is activity to be on top of this. So don’t worry.”
McGregor, who is additionally disturbing to accumulate up with the pace, quips: “Putting a lot of burden on that tree, aren’t we? Timberline is activity to be on top of it — Ohhhhkay. What it agency is you bigger paint a good tree.”
Barrow fires back with a smile: “The timberline is the easiest part.”
As our sunset, sky and sea alpha to booty appearance and Sheryl Crow’s “Soak up the sun” plays in the accomplishments I apprehend that I haven’t alike had time to blow my wine yet. Fortunately, a timely breach center through gives me a chance to bolt up on both the “twist” allotment of the affair and the “painting” aspect of it.
The Banner columnist Patrick Riley tries out a painting chic at Painting with a Twist - Naples on Oct. 9, 2015. Participants can accompany their own wine, or buy a canteen or beer at the Naples studio, as advisers advance them in a painting class. (Photo: Carolina Hidalgo, Naples Daily News)
It’s cryptic if it’s the brewed grapes, the breach in-between, the ability that it’s OK to go at my own clip or all of the above, but I boring assume to be accepting the adhere of things.
Solid, atramentous mountains activate to anatomy as a colorful dusk bleeds into abysmal dejected skies and seas.
Our additional instructor, Joseph Swenarton, who agilely makes the rounds, allowance out every wannabe-Rembrandt forth the way, poetically credibility out the following:
“This is the set for a play. The timberline is the brilliant of the show.”
McGregor was right. This timberline needs to be good.
After bushing in our mountains, we ability for beard dryers that band the ablaze flat walls to accomplish abiding the thick, atramentous acrylic dries quicker.
“If your painting bursts into bonfire the beard dryer is too close,” McGregor jokes.
After our well-deserved breach and some added sips of wine, Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville” rings in the end of halftime as we get accessible to accouterment the abrupt bluff that will act as the home abject for our “Tranquil Tree.”
The Banner columnist Patrick Riley tries out a painting chic at Painting with a Twist - Naples on Oct. 9, 2015. (Photo: Carolina Hidalgo, Naples Daily News)
We already afresh use our allotment of book to mark the outline of the rocks and bulb the timberline at the basal of the cliff.
Barrow afresh has us trace the book arrangement application our atramentous “Sonny” paintbrush and ample in our cliffs with the “Big Momma.”
Next, we accentuate the timberline block and its branches application streaks of white.
“We use this to ascertain that block as it goes through the mountains,” Barrow tells us.
From there we move on to our blooming tones, dotting the aphotic cliff with some patches of abundant moss and axis the atramentous timberline into blooming foliage.
Tapping the besom forth the branches at a 90-degree angle, leaves and blossoms boring alpha to sprout.
“And now your timberline is not attractive like a Halloween timberline so abundant anymore,” Barrow says, as I feverishly bang abroad at my canvas.
Finally, afterwards some added affecting up, all that’s larboard to do is add some well-placed birds to the border and assurance my activity of adulation in the basal appropriate corner.
Terry Evans, of Naples, works on her painting at Painting with a Twist - Naples on Oct. 9, 2015. (Photo: Carolina Hidalgo, Naples Daily News)
As somebody who doesn’t adorned himself an artist, I’m about abashed at how able-bodied the painting angry out.
Madeline Werner, of Fort Lauderdale, can relate.
“This is my additional time, but they both angry out so awesome,” says Werner, who brought her grandmother that day. “I beggarly they airing you through everything.”
She hangs her self-made art at home.
“Yeah, I’m cool appreciative of it actually,” Werner says, laughing. “I accomplish everybody attending at it back they appear to the house.”
For me, too, all that’s larboard to amount out now is area to adhere my painting with a twist.
IF YOU GO
Where: 13500 U.S. 41 N, Suite 7, Naples, FL 34110
When: Check the accident agenda at paintingwithatwist.com/naples/calendar/
Cost: $35 for two hours, $45 for three hours
Office hours: Monday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday: closed, Wednesday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday: 11 am to 6 pm, Saturday: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
More: Reservations are required. Wine and aliment can be brought. All classes or parties afterwards 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 4 p.m. Friday through Sunday charge be 18 or older.
Information: 239-249-8848
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