"1"^^ . "4"^^ . "0"^^ . "2014-05-22T00:00:00"^^ . . . "I've done several Paint Nites in Pittsburgh, at Local and Steel Cactus. It's really fun, a genius idea! Very entertaining to see your friends' artistic skills, and look at other people's painting too. Very unique for a date night or a girls' night out, and you can make new friends there too. \nThere are some frustrations, such as the temperature when it's winter -- the events are typically held in the upstairs deck areas of the bar/restaurant, which are covered in the winter but not heated!! They bring portable heaters but it was still unbearably cold 2 of the times I went. It can also be hard to get a \"good\" seat, a lot of people end up unable to see the model painting. And it can be hard to hear her explaining too, my friends and I are always going \"what? what?\" but then we just do whatever we feel like so it works out. And at the end we're alwyays sitting around for 30 min trying to get our painting to dry before we put it in our vehicles. Not that the Paint Nite people could invent rapid-drying paint, just sayin' that that's something to think about -- I usually take away part of a cheap plastic tablecloth they put out, and lay my painting on top of that in my trunk. \nIt's really a great time, and you come away with a painting you could hang in your house! My first painting was terrible actually, but you get the hang of it eventually, so I have 3 good ones out of 4 events :)"^^ . "0"^^ . .