Back in 2019, one weekend my daughter was going to be off at the grandparents getting spoiled. My wife and I had a long weekend to ourselves. I found a place that does those wine and painting events and scheduled a nice date night that started with dinner. My wife is an artist by day and hobby so she was super excited for this date. I was looking forward to it but was a bit apprehensive as I have never painted. It always looked hard (same way I feel about musical instruments).
It was a ton of fun. The instructor takes you through the how to process and they and assistants area around to help. At the end of a couple of hours we had trees. Of course we were nerdy and have branches that span across both paintings connecting them. I carved our initials on one the tree and my wife did likewise.
If your wife suggests it, I say go for it or surprise her. It will be a fun night. What I liked about it was I got that same buzz and thrill as when I made my first Paul Sellers wall clock. I was very new to woodworking and when I finished the clock I was super thrilled because it looked pretty good. Also while doing it, at points you could feel the creative juices flowing (another thing I like about woodworking). It's hard to get that buzz and it only took two hours of work. I know that much like woodworking, painting is an art and that one can get better and better. I will stick with woodworking but I will definitely take my wife on another date there. It was too fun not to.
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