(Another pre-Daddy draft finally gets finished….)

Last Christmas I got Cody two present: One functional (a gift card) and another fun: PaintNite Date Night with ME!!!!

You probably know the whole concept of PaintNite but I think each one is a little different. This one is run by local artists, hosted at various local bars, (so constantly roaming) and highly encourages drinking while painting. Everyone works on the same piece, which is different per class, and each painting is gauged on level of difficulty.

Shortly after I gave Cody his Christmas card we got on the phone and started looking at which paintings we wanted to try out – after a bit of back and forth, we nailed down a date in February that looked REALLY cool called “Raining Paint.” The painting had a drip-like style that looked like multi-colored rain coming down on two little birds who were perched on a wire with umbrellas. It looked freakin’ neat, super fun, and hopefully easy.

Our event was held at Graffiti Junction in College Park and upon arrival we did what we do best: Pony up to the bar, order martinis, and take a selfie.

Then we got smocked up and took a pre-painting selfie.

We were sitting on the backside of the room so we didn’t have a super great view of the painting we were there to mimic, but we had blank canvases, high hopes, and globs of paint on a paper plate.

Oh, and mimisoa’s. We were ordering doubles and throwing DOWN!

The painting instruction started and our teacher was a super cute blonde who encouraged us to keep drinking – and that was a good thing. She had an assistant who kept us flush in the core colors of our painting and drinks. And we had cute neighbors that were there on a “real” date nite.

Which leads me to my number one observation – PaintNite is for two audiences: Groups of Girls, and Early Dating Couples. Cody and I are neither of those things, so of course we were having a blast with our people-watching and inadvertent-evesdropping.

At first, our paintings started out REALLY well with an awesome base for rainy day clouds. Cody actually helped me craft my cloudy background with lots of texture and depth.

And then….

Then….

Then we started painting the “rain.”

And that’s when my pretty clouds turned into the ugliest thing I’ve ever made.

Because instead of the paint truly dripping down the canvas (which we thought would be the case), we just kind of… painting a wavey line on the canvas.

And then we added lots of multi-colored poofs and clouds at the top…

Followed by the wire for the two birds…

And the birds? Those were two circles painted, filled in, and given a little triangle beak.

I’m not sayin’ mine is ugly. I’m just sayin’… okay yeah it’s really ugly.

I don’t know why mine came out so dark and dreary. I remember not really liking the yellow paint in my clouds. But otherwise, I don’t know what happened!

But Cody’s is cute, right?! 🙂

Either way – I am proudly hanging my monstrosity in my house, right next to my closet, in public. And most importantly – We had a FANTASTIC time, and I would absolutely go again.