Urban Art Bar

A while back there was a Living Social deal for The Urban Art Bar and JO and I snapped it up right away.  A lot of my coworkers have gone to the Paint Bar in Newton and have really enjoyed it so I figured I'd investigate to see what it was all about.

Neither JO or I have any painting experience so we weren't quite sure how this would turn out.  The Urban Art Bar is in South Boston with plenty of free on-street parking.  The studio walls are covered with sample paintings and there are several workstations.  Each workstation seats 6-8 people.  Easels are set up with blank canvases.

The instructor takes you step by step through the painting process.  We had a great instructor.  She had a great sense of humor and made you feel confident in what you were doing.  She walked around to give you helpful tips and answer questions as needed.  An awesome playlist played on the radio during the painting time.

Blank Canvas

and we have sky

JO had the best water in the place

Almost done...just missing one more swan

The studio is working on obtaining their liquor license so you can sip while you paint.  They allow you to bring in food and they sell snacks, although we were quite busy painting so I'm not sure when you would have time to eat.  I think we were both surprised by how much fun we had and we were both certainly pleased with the final products.

My finished painting

Both of our final products

After painting we across the street to The Stadium for lunch.  In one of those cosmic moments the UConn game was on tv, one of my favorite Dispatch songs was playing on the radio, and they had churros on the menu (I had been craving churros last night but our burrito place didn't have any made when we went last night...and that was the sole reason we had burritos last night.)  JO joked that I was probably going to fall in a sink hole tomorrow because of all of this luck but no worries.  This place also wasn't serving churros even though they were on the menu.

In other news, churros will be my February vacation quest!