Our instructor was encouraging and clear. Muse Paintbar is meant for those with no experience, and while you can buy a 3-pack of classes or more at discount, they don’t seem to have a track for advancement to students with experience wishing more difficult paintings. Each of the example paintings hung on the walls is a careful balance of an interesting topic but not too advanced for beginners in a single evening’s class. The class is well organized and our instructor, who thankfully had a microphone, was easily heard, painting each step along with the class, unlike our recent experience making pottery in Brookline where the instructor dumped 10 steps on us before we touched the clay. The class alternates between instruction from a single teacher, and recent pop music as you try to paint. When you arrive you’re given a smock and a seat at a work table with a blank canvas and palette of colors. Our night, a Monday, drew more than 30 people, which only filled half of the place. (There is no regular bar seating.) Classes take place 7 days a week, giving you an option for a slow Monday, and allowing you to pick from their website which work you are most interested to paint. I’d just been to review PopUp Painting in London, a similar event, and am glad to say that we enjoyed Muse Paintbar more, because it was better organized and led, hosted in a space wholly dedicated to painting classes. At Patriot Place, you’ll find red wine, white wine, beer, and snacks including a hummus platter, chips and dip, baby carrots and dip, pretzels, chicken fingers, pizza, meatballs, and ice cream. Admission includes a drink but of course they hope that you’ll buy more. At the end of the class, if you like your work you can take it home with you. You learn to paint with acrylics, onto either a 16″ x 20″ canvas, wine glasses, or mason jars. You pay an inexpensive fee and join a class with a twist of party experience. Muse Paintbar has 11 locations just in New England, with more beyond, and we were grateful to be invited to their location at Patriot Place in Foxboro, Massachusetts for this review. We plan to go again.What’s better than going to a bar? A painting party at Muse Paintbar, where you learn to paint in a social atmosphere that happens to serve snacks and beverages, including alcohol. We enjoyed the hip, woke, diverse, accepting, fun experience at Muse. We recommend you get off work early and go to the bar in Flora, which is just around the block it has a terrific happy hour with $5 drinks and $5 to 8 small plates starting at 4 pm. The arrival time for a 7 pm session is 6:30. We visited on a Friday night so at $45 each the investment for 5 was $225. Session prices vary depending on day of the week. The snacks unfortunately lean toward unhealthy. There is a bar and the prices are mid-range. Even if you have no real experience/aptitude for painting (like me) she makes you feel comfortable. Lisa, our lead artist, standing on a small elevated stage, demonstrated each stroke as we went along in 90 minutes. They grouped us comfortably together on one large table with 5 canvasses and set ups. The idea was to do something together, chat, and drink a drink. 5 of us, including our adult daughters, made our Father’s Day family get together a session at Muse Paint Bar in West Hartford.
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