Painting with a Twist (of lime and vodka)

I've always secretly wished that I had the talent to be a starving artist. Of course, that's obviously not what most people dream of being - artist, yes - starving artist, no. But really, I would be more than happy to forego making my millions if I had even one iota of artistic talent, but alas I have absolutly none. I can't write in a straight line, let alone draw a straight line. I'm completely tone deaf and my dancing looks more like an animal dying than Swan Lake.  And yet, even with all the odds stacked up against me, I'm on a personal quest to find something artistic that I just might be good at.

Last weekend a girlfriend and I took a trip to St. Pete's Painting with a Twist where an instructor teaches an entire class one painting step by step. Frankly the only way you could possibly mess up one of these painting was if you were completely wasted (BYOB is greatly encouraged by the staff there - I think they feel it might keep people from having a nervous breakdown). The entire point is artistic license, in that you can paint your particular painting as differently as you want (different colors, different spacing, etc), but at the end of the night, you will probably walk away with a perfectly acceptable looking painting. Heeeellllloooo I've found my heaven. I mean, seriously, you might as well have just handed me a gallon of paint, a paint brush, and the broad side of a barn and told me to go to town, because with this nifty little method that Painting with a Twist has developed, YOU CAN'T FAIL. It's amazing. I'll admit, it was a lot of work, Diana and I thought, by picking a somewhat abstract looking painting, that it would be easy when in reality we picked one of the most detailed projects that PWAT offers, but I think it's pretty safe to say that, for $46, we both left there feeling pretty darn good about our mythical artistic abilities.

So what did we paint you ask? This one was a knock off of Picasso's "Girl Before the Mirror" and while it's more abstract that I usually enjoy, it's very colorful and fun.

Here is Picasso's actual painting:

Here's PWAT's interpretation:

And here's mine:

Yes, I know....absolutly brilliant right? I'm sure MOMA will be calling me any day now requesting permission to display my wonderful work of art. But until they do, I'll just sit back and admire my brilliance....