Last week I attended a two hour acrylic painting class at Pinot’s Pallete in St. Matthews with my friend Brooke and her sister-in-law. They do classes almost every night and have a bar where you can buy beer, wine or mixed cocktails to sip on while you paint.
We painted an elephant and it was a lot of fun! I went in there anticipating a canvas with an outline of the elephant already there, but much to our surprise, we all sat down to a blank, white canvas. At first we were extremely intimidated, but our instructor was awesome and did a great job of showing us how to do the outline of the elephant ourselves. We started with a grid on the canvas and she instructed us where on the grid to place dots of paint and then which dots to connect until we had our basic outline.
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After adding details step by step to the background and the elephant, we ended up with a final painting! They all looked a bit different, but yet very similar. Here was my end result.
It was a lot of fun and I definitely want to do it again soon!