I have a confession to make: wine and paint nights give me massive anxiety. I’m a writer, not an artist. Not even a little bit. While I think it’s an awesome concept in general, paying to sit down and create “art” that will never be good enough to hang up is not my idea of fun. So when a friend invited me to her birthday celebration at a place where we would be making our own wood signs … [Read more...]
Get Ready for Plant Nite, You Party Animals
So you know how paint nights are a thing? Like, that thing where you gather somewhere, at a restaurant or a store or an actual studio, and you drink wine and paint recreations of Van Gogh's The Starry Night or whatever. You've heard of this. Someone you know has done this and posted it to Facebook. Probably lots of someones you know—it seems like paint nights replaced coloring … [Read more...]
Come Paint at Pinot’s Palette and Support St. Jude’s Fight Against Childhood Cancer 9/28!
Pinot's Palette, the first international franchisor of paint and sip studios in North America, with a fun, relatively-new location right here in Fresno, will host a nationwide fundraising event on September 28, 2016 in support of the lifesaving mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, Finding cures. Saving children®. (For more on our local Pinot's Palette, check out my previous article … [Read more...]
Pinot’s Palette Fresno: New “Paint and Sip” location opening soon!
Fresno's North Point Center at the south west corner of Palm and Herndon will soon be home to the area's first Pinot's Palette, a brick-and-mortar franchised "paint and sip" art studio that allows guest to enjoy wine while they learn from local artists how to create their own piece of art. With over 50 locations across the country, Pinot's Palette promises that no experience is necessary to follow … [Read more...]