Painting with a Twist

Grace from the Arlington location, you are a blessing and a half! You need a raise and your own studio! I felt so cared for! You stayed late to make sure everyone was happy with their paintings. You helped us all match our skin tones to our characters and asked questions in the most respectful way possible to gain understanding and be politically/racially correct not only for our class but for your classes moving forward. You made us ALL feel SEEN! I appreciate you and your use of proper terminology when referring to our skin tones, hair tones (Ima 1B! Lol), and hairstyles. This was the first time I left a paint and sip proud of what I made! It was all because of YOU. I am posting this review everywhere because you meant that much to me! I can't wait to come to another one of your classes! I only want you as my instructor! We ALL will be back soon! :)

I went to an event here July 8th as an employee team building exercise. Patrick was our instructor. He was unwilling to answer questions or repeat instructions to anyone in the group he dubbed a 'Type A' personality. He acted as if it pained him to give extra supplies like napkins to the 'Type A' people. I felt singled out and immediately disliked by this man. In short, he was a prick that ruined the experience for me.

Went here on a date with my girlfriend and definitely something different. The instructor had a laid back attitude and very relaxing. Personally, I was more stressed out painting given my lack of of artist affinity; however, I did see others enjoy it. We brought our own bottle of wine as well.A great date place that gets out of the mundane "dinner and movie". Everything was neat and we kept our paintings!

I surprised my fiance with an evening here for Valentine's this year. We had a blast. Ashley and Patrick were awesome and we even met some new friends. Ashley art direction was easy to follow and we love our couple painting. It's hanging in our new home we bought. We will definitely be going back and telling all our friends.

I came here for the first time ever with my family and Kelly was our instructor. First of all she was great! Cool attitude, very helpful, and made us have a awesome time. I left there thinking I was the next Picasso lol, but seriously great time spent with good people and definitely would come back.

First time at this location and first time doing a couples painting. We had a blast. Our instructor Angie was awesome! She wasnt serious like other instructors. She had a sense of humor that made the class fun! She didn't start until one of the painters came back from making a beer run. Ha ha! I will be back to paint at this location again!!

Let me first start off by saying this was such an amazing business from top to bottom! My co-workers and I all signed up for a private party, which had to be 10 or more people. When you think about it seemed like a lot coming from a small business with not that many girls, but it was not hard at all to find some girlfriends/family to bring to the painting class to have fun PLUS wine involved... WIN WIN situation.:) We chose to do the Cherry Blossom picture, which took a while for everyone to agree on one because we liked SO many of them! They had a seperate room for us, with a door to close out all our loud sounds & laughter so the other class didnt have to hear it! (which I thought was nice & courteous) Amy, the owner was our instructor, and right off the bat she gave us the "Rules"... BASICALLY they were just HAVE FUN, RELAX and don't worry because everyones painting's were going to come out wonderful... and I thought they all did! She was very warm & inviting and we all had a really great time and we just went last night and were all ranting & raving how we want to go back again!So thanks to everyone at Painting with a Twist all of us from CIA had a great time!!

My boyfriend planned a surprise date for us, and we had an appointment at 1:30. The appointment was not a lesson. We showed up early, about 1:10-1:15. There was only one lady working, and no other customers. She told us to pick our design we want to paint and seated us. From the time we sat down with our easels and paint, it took 45 minutes for her to let us start. She couldn't figure out how to send a tutorial video to our phones, and eventually figured out that a video doesn't exist for the paintings we picked.Neither of us are artists, but my boyfriend planned the date because he knows I like painting. When he started his painting, it didn't look much like the reference photo. The lady came over and wiped it off his canvas with a napkin and told him to paint over it in white and redo it. At this point we are both very annoyed bc she has already taken forever and micromanaged how we mix our paints. For the remainder of the session, she is micromanaging what my boyfriend does. Telling him he's doing something wrong, or how he could do it differently. She then tells us the studio closes at 4, and we have to leave by then. Which is RIDICULOUS considering we showed up early and she took forever to set us up. She also told us we're more than welcome to walk to Kroger down the street if we want a drink. Very awkward. When it got close to 4, she sat down with my boyfriend and basically finished his painting to get us out of there.I called the manager about it, and the most she would do is offer a 10.00 off coupon.... As if we would go back. This was meant to be a fun experience, but the lady totally ruined it. Never going back, and extremely disappointed with the managers response. He spent over 80.00.

Would like to try this business but couldn't get past the rude phone support. I was bother her to explain details of the business and kept saying "if you went our website, you'd see that ....."I was quite shocked by her attitude for simple discussion on how to partake in their business. Not for me......

This was such a fun night! Awesome instructor (Patrick, you rule), great location, patrons, playlist, etc. Great place to spend a Friday night. Now I want to host any party here.