Sippin 'n Paintin at the Chocolate and Wine Festival of Texas

My set up. I had a table to display my art and two tables for the classes.

The doors opened at noon and there was a rush. My two sisters, Dana and Leslie were just outside the door checking people in. 

My sister Selina setting up the chocolate samples.

Chandelier of wine bottles. 

Candy for Sale

More chocolate samples...

The festival continued out on the back patio

My first class consisted of these 2 nice ladies. They had pre- registered. One was from the area and the other had traveled all the way from Plano to take my class. 

My third student was an hour late as she got stuck in traffic but we had a very nice time visiting, and  it was no problem getting her started as the others finished up.  She even made her strawberry look like it had been dipped in chocolate with a white drizzle. Her sister is a breast cancer survivor and she made a custom label for the bottle to show her support. "Always Fighting" 

Family Painting Class

I am considering teaching one of those step by step painting classes where you complete a painting in an hour or two. So yesterday I went to Michaels and bought a bunch of brushes, acrylic paint and 11 x 14 stretched canvas.  Tonight after dinner at my sisters house it was decided that I would do a practice class. I thought it would be just my sisters that would want to participate but everyone wanted in on it! I had 7 students. From my 5 year old niece and 11 and 17 year old nephews, to my sisters and brother-in-law to my 76 year old mother! We set up a large folding table, chairs, paper towels, paints, water cups, plates for palettes and a still life. We started with the table line and went from there. It took an hour and 10 minutes. not including set up or clean up. All went well and fun was had by all!

Faith can't wait to get started!

sketching with paint

Demo

Grandma

I liked my sister Leslie's even better than my own!

Guess which one the 17 year did.