?3 friends and I went for Paint Nite in Fionn MacCool in Mississauga's Heartland area.
In a nutshell: go on the website and select location/painting of your choice - level of difficulty is shown. Once you arrive, you are seated with an easel, paint, paintbrush, blank canvas and apron. After introductions, the instructor shows step-by-step how to paint.
The good:
- Fun activity to do with friends, you can take home a painting that you made yourself
- Regular price is $45 but there's plenty of options available to pay $25 plus tax only - I used code julie20 that a coworker gave me. Decent value.
- The instructor and her 2 helpers were sweet and friendly, with a good sense of humour
The bad:
- Seating at this location was really tight
- The aprons we were given were mostly pretty dirty (covered in a lot of paint from previous classes)
- There was less learning than I anticipated ... we did a bit of blending but otherwise no real technique. For the leaves for example, we were instructed to just blot the paintbrush. The end result of even the instructor didn't look as pretty as the original image.
- Instructor did not have a microphone - she did advise that this isn't always the case.
I might give Paint Nite a try again someday, but at a different location.
Note: no food/drinks are included. You can purchase drinks and apps, but this location told us we couldn't order mains since there wouldn't be room.