Experienced instructors help recreate bright decorative paintings at local bars and restaurants

• Expires Jan 23, 2013
• Limit 3 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per visit. Reservation required. 48hr cancellation notice required. Class must be used by the same person. Alcohol not included. Not valid for for corporate events, private events, or fundraisers.
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Working local artists put paint, brush, and canvas in students’ hands and lead them through recreating a bright, serene painting to take home. Sessions take place several days a week at bars and restaurants throughout the metropolitan San Francisco area; check the calendar for locations, times, and paintings. Though not included, each location typically offers unique drink specials to keep creative juices flowing throughout the session.

The artists at Wine and Canvas awaken their students’ inner Rembrandts and Van Goghs with classes that pair a featured painting with specialty cocktails and wines. The mobile studio’s monthly calendar includes themed classes in which instructors expound on the nuances of painting Parisian street lamps, Japanese flowers, or Venetian cityscapes. The master painters—many of them local artists—provide step-by-step instructions while students mimic each stroke and periodically dip their brushes into glasses filled with crimson cabernet. Each of the studio’s various drink-friendly venues boasts a specialty libation selected to incite creativity or conversations with fellow painters. When the artistic frenzy concludes, students return home with a finished masterpiece large enough to conceal any wall safe or mirror portal.