Painting with a Twist

Recently, I joined a few friends for a birthday party at Painting with a Twist - Tallahassee!

What’s really great about Painting with a Twist is that you can bring your own food and drinks (including alcohol) to enjoy while painting.

We brought some cupcakes from Lucy & Leo’s Cupcakery and ingredients to make strawberry mimosas. I enjoyed a chocolate cupcake first, with a virgin strawberry mimosa. No real mimosas for this pregnant gal.

I recommend a fork for this cupcake…it was so rich! And then I enjoyed a strawberry cupcake. This one was definitely my favorite…which is weird because I’m normally a chocaholic! The frosting was light and fluffy. Consumed in three bites. Om nom nom.

(Sorry for the blurry iPhone photo - it was probably because I was in a rush to consume the cupcake!) In addition to the varieties mentioned above, our group also consumed red velvet cupcakes and gluten-free cupcakes, which they offer on select days or for pre-order!

When we first arrived at Painting with a Twist, we checked-in and were given a blank canvas to set up at our station. At our stations, we had set up for us a plate of several gobs of paint, two paintbrushes, a cup of water to rinse the brushes and napkins.

When it was time to begin, our instructor took the stage to give us step-by-step instructions on how to paint our masterpieces. The instructions were super easy to follow.

Our first step was to mix two brush scoops of red with one scoop of blue to make our purple background, then to paint the purple onto the canvas in a circular motion starting in the center of the canvas.

Then, we took white paint and painted in a circular motion starting in the center and working our way outward, so that it would mix with the purple background paint. Easy stuff!

Starting to get messy!

Then, it was time to draw our tree. From here, it was free painting basically. We all drew our flowers onto the canvas by mixing different paint colors together. At the end, we could use the provided blow dryers to dry our paintings before taking them home with us.

The finished product!

Oh yeah, just call us all artists now.

We had such a great time! I’ve already found the perfect spot for my painting in the house.

They also book private parties where you can pick any painting from their catalog, which sounds really fun too!

This particular day/time was considered Family Day, and there were several kids there that looked like they were having so much fun too! Maybe we will bring Trent here one day…maybe to paint this…