Look out Georgia O"Keeffe! The instructors at Heartsy are unveiling your secrets and creating master artists one cocktail at a time!
On Valentine's Day, while every other girl in Miami was eating an expensive meal, popping chocolates and bottles of champers, and receiving overpriced bouquets of flowers, the Yelp cupid hit me with a paint brush this year, reminding me of my first love as a child, art, and sent me to Beer and Burger Joint in Brickell where I was greeted with a Jameson, my other love, and then I soon learned that I would no longer be the only girl in Miami without Valentine's Day flowers, every girl's Valentine's Day dream come true!
Joe, our Heartsy instructor, or shall we say my Valentine at this point, because let's get real, I met him at a bar/restaurant on Valentine's Day, he bought me a drink, wooed me with his artistic talents and made me dig deep down into my heart, was able to make me let my guard down, and pushed me to find that inner creativity that was hiding deep down for so many years behind the lines of perfection and into the depths of the abstract creative artist.
As my Jameson started to kick in, so did the abstract brushstrokes. Quite interesting how the buzz started to enhance my artwork. Drinking and painting class is definitely onto something here...which leads me to now question Monet's sobriety...
Joe was a great instructor from start to finish, able to guide a class comprised of a neophyte to a seasoned artist and to really push the envelope, encouraging his pupils to not just copy the painting displayed up front, but to really feel the strokes of the brush and paint what feels right to you, the artist. I was amazed at how a class that was given the same instructions produced very different works of art.
While Miami has many offerings for things to do on a night out in Miami, I would highly recommend doing something off the beaten path and trying one of these boozy painting classes at Heartsy either solo or with a date, it can be equally as fun and it is actually very reasonably priced. This is a great alternative for a birthday party or a bachelorette.
In the event that you were still wondering how this fairytale Valentine's Day ended, this girl went home, with her first Valentine's Day flowers that she was actually able to keep, you know, the allergen and pollen free acrylic kind on canvas. Thank you to Heartsy and Yelp Culture Club for a memorable Valentine's Day.
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