Jun 24, 2014
C&B in a Nutshell..
Local artists teach students of all skill levels to create canvas masterpieces with provided acrylic paint & supplies. Our mission is to offer a relaxed, welcoming, stress-free, social art experience for anyone and everyone of all skill levels. Our events offer an environment that is comfortable, social, no-pressure, encouraging and entertaining.
The Painting Class
Professional local artists teach between 15 and 30 students of all skill levels to splash landscapes, cityscapes, or abstract paintings across a 16"x20" canvas through step-by-step instruction. All classes are held at local restaurants or art galleries, and all supplies are included. Some classes are BYOB, and during those that are not, discounted adult and nonalcoholic beverages will be available for purchase at the venue. Click here to check out Colors & Bottles' schedule, which includes each class's location, painting theme, and whether or not the class is BYOB or top-hat optional.
Mission of Art
Colors & Bottles' founder Jessica Burley and her band of talented local artists are dedicated to supporting local emerging talent and businesses through art instruction held at nearby venues. Their resident artists travel to local eateries and art galleries, where they teach students of all skill levels to fashion dimensional masterpieces through step-by-step instruction. They also kindle creativity during private parties held at the location of your choice, asking only that the destination be outfitted with enough tables, chairs, and paint-by-numbers templates of the Sistine Chapel ceiling for all invitees. Colors & Bottles has received a nod for their engagingly creative events onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show and within the pages of the Columbus Dispatch.
Our Events & Why they Rock
Colors & Bottles mission is to offer a relaxed, welcoming, stress-free, social art experience for anyone and everyone. We consider ourselves very chill and we love whoever, whenever! So, welcome! Come one, come all! Not artistic? Perfect! Or are you actually really, Artistic? That is perfect, too! We believe art is for everyone and we created C&B to provide comfortable, no-pressure, social art classes for all skill levels. To make it an even more different, fresh and exciting new experience we decided to by-pass the boring painting studio option. Instead, we thought it would spice things up to have our classes in wineries, art galleries, restaurants, bars, parks, rooftops, gardens, coffee shops, and any swanky locations we can find. Paint and drink around the town. Ellen DeGeneres picked us as "AWESOME, UNIQUE & FUN new art classes!!" Uh-huh, oh yea! Why did she pick us? Because, we told you, we’re absolutely, 100% the hip new way to take an art class!
Our Events & Why they Matter
Don’t overlook the heart, passion, drive and determination behind Colors & Bottles. “I wanted to start an organization that not only offered an artistic stress outlet for people but I wanted to structure my business in a way that could create jobs for Artists and Art lovers,” from founder Jessica Burley. The idea of hosting events in various hip locations was a perfect, yet fun, solution to help support and grow local communities. This idea allows for other small business to get people in their door to market, sell and promote their products. We truly believe that if everyone supports each other and works together than we can all help build strong, successful and happy communities.
Not artistic? Perfect! Artistic? Perfect!
We believe art is for everyone and we created C&B to provide comfortable classes for all skill levels. Our classes are for everyone. Watch the event video below if you don't believe us!
No more big up-front costs and long commitments to take art classes. We're your new art pick-me-up whenever you need us.
Sign up for a class when you're in the mood! Just check out your city's calendar and sign up. No more art classes that make you commit to every Monday for 3-months. We're here when you want us and when you need that art-social pick me up.
Classes are staged in local bars, wineries, restaurants and art galleries--including several BYOB variations.
We do this to achieve our mission to help support local businesses and economies. All locations offer alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages or it's BYOB!
All supplies are provided and you’ll leave each event with a take-home beautiful masterpiece! You don't need to bring anything but yourself!
Everyone Gets: One easel, brushes (we have many), paint, apron, water cup, palette, paper towels and anything you might need! You don't need to bring a thing!
"The artists are very generous with their compliments, they make you feel like your painting is a work of art no matter how inexperienced you are"
(844)8-COLOR-8 OR Email us at info@colorsandbottles.com
Colors & Bottles BYOB Painting Classes!
C&B in a Nutshell..
Local artists teach students of all skill levels to create canvas masterpieces with provided acrylic paint & supplies. Our mission is to offer a relaxed, welcoming, stress-free, social art experience for anyone and everyone of all skill levels. Our events offer an environment that is comfortable, social, no-pressure, encouraging and entertaining.
The Painting Class
Professional local artists teach between 15 and 30 students of all skill levels to splash landscapes, cityscapes, or abstract paintings across a 16"x20" canvas through step-by-step instruction. All classes are held at local restaurants or art galleries, and all supplies are included. Some classes are BYOB, and during those that are not, discounted adult and nonalcoholic beverages will be available for purchase at the venue. Click here to check out Colors & Bottles' schedule, which includes each class's location, painting theme, and whether or not the class is BYOB or top-hat optional.
Mission of Art
Colors & Bottles' founder Jessica Burley and her band of talented local artists are dedicated to supporting local emerging talent and businesses through art instruction held at nearby venues. Their resident artists travel to local eateries and art galleries, where they teach students of all skill levels to fashion dimensional masterpieces through step-by-step instruction. They also kindle creativity during private parties held at the location of your choice, asking only that the destination be outfitted with enough tables, chairs, and paint-by-numbers templates of the Sistine Chapel ceiling for all invitees. Colors & Bottles has received a nod for their engagingly creative events onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show and within the pages of the Columbus Dispatch.
Our Events & Why they Rock
Colors & Bottles mission is to offer a relaxed, welcoming, stress-free, social art experience for anyone and everyone. We consider ourselves very chill and we love whoever, whenever! So, welcome! Come one, come all! Not artistic? Perfect! Or are you actually really, Artistic? That is perfect, too! We believe art is for everyone and we created C&B to provide comfortable, no-pressure, social art classes for all skill levels. To make it an even more different, fresh and exciting new experience we decided to by-pass the boring painting studio option. Instead, we thought it would spice things up to have our classes in wineries, art galleries, restaurants, bars, parks, rooftops, gardens, coffee shops, and any swanky locations we can find. Paint and drink around the town. Ellen DeGeneres picked us as "AWESOME, UNIQUE & FUN new art classes!!" Uh-huh, oh yea! Why did she pick us? Because, we told you, we’re absolutely, 100% the hip new way to take an art class!
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Heyl: A chance for art by the bottle
Heyl: A chance for art by the bottle
Eric Heyl 412-320-7857
Columnist
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Eric Heyl is a columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. His work appears throughout the week.
By Eric Heyl
Published: Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, 11:36 p.m.
Read more: http://triblive.com/opinion/ericheyl/5348010-74/art-clair-heyl#ixzz2qpHiF8MM
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Heyl: A chance for art by the bottle
About Eric Heyl
Eric Heyl 412-320-7857Columnist
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Eric Heyl is a columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. His work appears throughout the week.
Daily Photo Galleries
This Just In Blog
January 18, 2014
Four-and-a-half years ago, an Army sergeant went missing in Afghanistan. His family wants him back, by force if necessary.By Eric Heyl
Published: Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, 11:36 p.m.
Jackson Pollock, who was famous for his abstract art and his alcohol consumption, undoubtedly would have approved.
An upcoming series of painting classes held in area taverns and restaurants will enable participants to hold a brush in one hand and a beer mug in the other. They'll have to display considerable dexterity to complete their works without spilling Yuengling on them.
Will they be up to that challenge next week in Hough's Taproom and Brewpub in Greenfield and at several other establishments in the coming weeks? The evidence provided by the 2-year-old company that has successfully staged these events in other cities suggests so.
The South Carolina-based outfit, Colors and Bottles, brings to bistros and sports bars something not ordinarily seen during broadcasts of Penguins games on a 60-inch, high-definition television: Up to 30 cocktail enthusiasts and aspiring artists sitting in front of easels for several hours.
“You're not there to make a masterpiece; you're there to make friends. You're there to make a good memory,” said Leah St. Clair, vice president of customer service and event operations. “And at the end of the night, you get to take home something you created.”
Here's how it works: For $35 (or considerably less for industrious types who track down readily available online coupons), artist wannabes are equipped with acrylic paint, canvas and three hours of instruction from local painters working as Colors and Bottles contractors. By the evening's conclusion, after step-by-step instruction, the budding artists have a completed 16- by 20-inch painting to hang on their living room wall.
According to St. Clair, discounted drink specials often are offered by the taverns hosting the classes. Presumably, that's done to help speed the creative process.
Hey, it worked for Pollock.
The city's first Colors and Bottles event will be held Thursday in Hough's. It won't be the first offbeat event the place has hosted. The taproom holds a pig roast every summer as part of Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week festivities, and marketing coordinator Cassie Hough hopes that plying people with palettes proves as popular a draw for Hough's as swine on a spit.
The art class “should be good for us, provide us exposure to people who may not have been to the bar before,” she said. “We definitely have high hopes, and if things go well, hopefully we will do it again.”
St. Clair is equally hopeful for her company's other planned Western Pennsylvania events — at the Beerhive in the Strip District, the Baltimore House in Pleasant Hills and the Elrama Tavern in West Elizabeth.
“It's been our experience in other cities that people of all skill levels take to the stress-free social art experiences in these casual settings,” she said.
Given the environment in which the paintings will be produced, if St. Clair is correct, expect a dramatic increase in locally produced acrylic interpretations of Coors cans.
Not exactly Pollock's style, but given his notorious fondness for spirits, he most certainly would have been proud.
Eric Heyl is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7857 oreheyl@tribweb.com.
Read more: http://triblive.com/opinion/ericheyl/5348010-74/art-clair-heyl#ixzz2qpHiF8MM
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Jan 3, 2014
Heyl: A chance for art by the bottle
Heyl: A chance for art by the bottle
Eric Heyl 412-320-7857
Columnist
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Eric Heyl is a columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. His work appears throughout the week.
By Eric Heyl
Published: Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, 11:36 p.m.Updated 17 hours ago
Read more: http://triblive.com/opinion/ericheyl/5348010-74/art-clair-heyl#ixzz2pNEvWBlo
Follow us: @triblive on Twitter | triblive on Facebook
Heyl: A chance for art by the bottle
About Eric Heyl
Eric Heyl 412-320-7857Columnist
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Eric Heyl is a columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. His work appears throughout the week.
Daily Photo Galleries
This Just In Blog
January 3, 2014
Your dog may not have supernatural powers, but he does sense North and South.By Eric Heyl
Published: Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, 11:36 p.m.Updated 17 hours ago
Jackson Pollock, who was famous for his abstract art and his alcohol consumption, undoubtedly would have approved.
An upcoming series of painting classes held in area taverns and restaurants will enable participants to hold a brush in one hand and a beer mug in the other. They'll have to display considerable dexterity to complete their works without spilling Yuengling on them.
Will they be up to that challenge next week in Hough's Taproom and Brewpub in Greenfield and at several other establishments in the coming weeks? The evidence provided by the 2-year-old company that has successfully staged these events in other cities suggests so.
The South Carolina-based outfit, Colors and Bottles, brings to bistros and sports bars something not ordinarily seen during broadcasts of Penguins games on a 60-inch, high-definition television: Up to 30 cocktail enthusiasts and aspiring artists sitting in front of easels for several hours.
“You're not there to make a masterpiece; you're there to make friends. You're there to make a good memory,” said Leah St. Clair, vice president of customer service and event operations. “And at the end of the night, you get to take home something you created.”
Here's how it works: For $35 (or considerably less for industrious types who track down readily available online coupons), artist wannabes are equipped with acrylic paint, canvas and three hours of instruction from local painters working as Colors and Bottles contractors. By the evening's conclusion, after step-by-step instruction, the budding artists have a completed 16- by 20-inch painting to hang on their living room wall.
According to St. Clair, discounted drink specials often are offered by the taverns hosting the classes. Presumably, that's done to help speed the creative process.
Hey, it worked for Pollock.
The city's first Colors and Bottles event will be held Thursday in Hough's. It won't be the first offbeat event the place has hosted. The taproom holds a pig roast every summer as part of Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week festivities, and marketing coordinator Cassie Hough hopes that plying people with palettes proves as popular a draw for Hough's as swine on a spit.
The art class “should be good for us, provide us exposure to people who may not have been to the bar before,” she said. “We definitely have high hopes, and if things go well, hopefully we will do it again.”
St. Clair is equally hopeful for her company's other planned Western Pennsylvania events — at the Beerhive in the Strip District, the Baltimore House in Pleasant Hills and the Elrama Tavern in West Elizabeth.
“It's been our experience in other cities that people of all skill levels take to the stress-free social art experiences in these casual settings,” she said.
Given the environment in which the paintings will be produced, if St. Clair is correct, expect a dramatic increase in locally produced acrylic interpretations of Coors cans.
Not exactly Pollock's style, but given his notorious fondness for spirits, he most certainly would have been proud.
Eric Heyl is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7857 oreheyl@tribweb.com.
Read more: http://triblive.com/opinion/ericheyl/5348010-74/art-clair-heyl#ixzz2pNEvWBlo
Follow us: @triblive on Twitter | triblive on Facebook
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