Garland's Painting with a Twist to Host Fundraiser

September 18, 2011 In September, Garland’s Painting with a Twist will host Painting with a Purpose, a benefit for 30 WALK, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to breast cancer prevention awareness and related issues.

Garland, TX - Find Your Stroke of Genius

May 24, 2011 "Chateau Cardboard" is how art instructor Renata Sharman describes most of the wine poured into plastic cups at Painting with a Twist, the art-class-cum-happy-hour studio in Garland. It's BYOB here, but everything else is provided: canvas, paints, brushes and paper plate palettes. They also provide the subject. Thursday night, 10 of us played along with the "paint without numbers" process, following Sharman's step-by-step, stroke-by-stroke instructions for a painting of a diaphanous dress on a coat hanger, floating on a background of either purple-y blues or orange-y reds. Not exactly "Guernica," OK, but most of us don't usually paint much beyond our toenails.

Amy Tried It: Painting with a Twist

August 02, 2010 My friend Evan and I tried out the new Painting With a Twist shop at Firewheel. (They have them all over the U.S.) I have to say that this was a very cool way to spend an evening. It's pretty much a paint-along class. You sign up for something you'd like to try, and an artist shows you step by step how to create it. The most interesting part was how everyone's painting looked different in the end