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Wine and Canvas - Bloomington - The advertisement of the painting for the class.

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There was a great advertisement photo of what the class was "supposed" to be painting yesterday. It…read morewas a Halloween inspired Van Gogh style "Spooky Starry Night". My sister and I were unsure if we could make it or not and held off buying tickets online. We decided we could make it happen and arrived 20 mins before class to inquire about joining in before anyone had even showed up. The instructor had zero clue how many were in the class and if there would be room for us. She then suggested that we wait at the bar and have some food while the class filled to see if there would be room. We were told they would let us know. We waited while trying to see if we would be asked to come in and join, circling by the room every now and again. No one came, not even her helper to poke her head out to motion us in. We realized they started the class without us. I went inside and saw two seats available. I inquired again but was really surprised that they never bothered with a heads up and started without us. We spent the class speed painting attempting to catch up from the point of starting the third color block. The canvas didn't want to absorb the paint well or even perhaps the standard primary color jugs used for these kind of classes were even more smeary and less opaque. Not to mention I had to use the flashlight on my phone because the space in the restaurant has extremely low lighting. This was all made worse because the instructor went faster through steps than what I've experienced in other similar wine and canvas classes. The class was supposed to be held from 2-5pm and the instructor was done with all the steps before 3:30. In the end, the painting the instructor did was not even a shade of the advertisement. Not even a semi close rendering for instruction. We were bummed despite sorta getting to join the class. I say it like that because they just left us at the bar and started without us. We were the first to arrive. Forgotten about even though those seats were available while we waited. Then absolutely no real instruction or attempt to see where most of the class was progressing. The instructor never had personality or attempted to at least catch my sister up during the lull and tell her how to make tertiary colors. Shes a complete novice and thats what the classes are for, the average person without experience. We asked the instructor about paying her for the class at the end and she seemed to have amnesia that we were the ones that joined in. It just seemed like one hand didn't know what the other was doing. After all if we weren't honest we could have literally walked out and she wouldn't have realized that payment wasn't rendered after we joined in. This birthday gift for my sister was a bust. Here is the instructors picture the entire class looked upon as she sped through the steps. I've also included the advertisement photo. I will say that art is subjective, no step by step painting will be the same but literally it was never even close. The base paint for the image is different, the direction the picture was painted didn't allow for all the images to be spaced appropriately, the color scheme wasn't right... hands down the worst outcome of any wine and paint class I've taken.

Everything wine and canvas right? Do you assume that there will be wine? Yes you do. Well not at my…read morefunction. There was no wine and in the description of what will be provided is aprons and brushes. There was no apron and the brushes are so worn out and spread apart. There is no way to make a fine line like I had to do with all of the trees they wanted you to do and then the tiny sunlight lines as well. It was terrible. We'll never go back at least not to that one.

Artisan Alley - artspacerentals - Updated October 2026

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