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Whether it’s a first date or a 25-year marriage, couples can benefit from a painting class.
Painting together spurs creativity. It gives you a creative challenge. It works your brain and your communication in unique ways.
Today, couples are using painting classes to come closer together. Yes, a painting class can help your relationship.Let’s find out how.
Learn how the other person thinks
You might believe you know how the other person thinks – but until you take a painting class, you don’t know how the other person thinks creatively.
What colors does your partner like to use?Do they use lighter, more vibrant colors? Do they stick closely to the pattern?Do they branch off with unique color schemes and think outside the box?
Even if you’ve spent years with your partner, you may have no idea how that person paints. Maybe he’s the best painter in the world. Maybe your wife paints better than Monet. Maybe you have a real talent for painting that has been undiscovered since elementary school art class. Maybe your spouse is good at everything else – but he’s an atrocious painter.
If you love someone, you want to learn more about that person. When you take a painting class together, you can discover how the other person thinks and paints – and that’s a cool thing to discover.
Painting says a lot about personality
In an interview with Apartment Therapy, relationship expert and family therapist Dr. Amie Harwick described how colors are linked to personality.
Dr. Harwick believes each individual’s perception and experience impacts how you view a particular color – including the types of feelings that color elicits.
When you see blue, you might think of a pleasant summer day sitting on a dock in a lake. When someone else sees blue,they might think of the terrifying prospect of an empty ocean with no land or boats in sight. Hey, everyone is different.
Many couples encounter this issue when painting a home for the first time. You might disagree on the color of a child’s room, for example. When you take a painting class, you can discover which colors elicit certain feelings in your partner.
When you take a painting class with someone, you see which colors they pick – and those color choices give unique insight into that person.
Painting together is like free relationship therapy
Painting together can be more than just a fun activity: it could save your relationship. Painting together is like free relationship therapy.
Kathy Norcross Watts of the Winston-Salem Journal interviewed a couple that had been married for 33 years – and rediscovered their love for one another through painting.
The couple were so excited to paint together that they turned one room of their home into a painting studio.
After retiring, they needed a hobby. They were both creative during their younger years, playing music and making art. As they got older, life got in the way and they lost their creative hobbies. After rediscovering painting in their 60's, they now have a productive hobby to enjoy together.
The Winston-Salem couple describes painting as a learning experience and an experiment. They get to experience new things together, try different styles, and flex their creative muscle – all while painting side by side.
Meanwhile, one painting class provider claims to have an 86% success rate with their couples painting workshops.Couples attend the workshops to rejuvenate their relationship and discover powerful results through the joy of painting.
Like many couples, they have rediscovered their love for each other – and their creativity – by picking up a paintbrush.
Painting spurs non-verbal communication
Some couples take art therapy to the next level. In one painting class, couples can only communicate through painting. They cannot use words or other traditional communication methods. With each stroke,couples learn how they can more effectively communicate with one another.
One woman claimed to frequently over complicate things. Communicating via painting forced her to simplify her language,leading to more effective communication with her partner.
Her partner, meanwhile, frequently kept things to himself. He admitted to assuming his partner could read his mind.After taking the painting class, he realized he needed to verbalize what he would like.
During our painting classes, couples are free to communicate as much (or as little) as they like. However, if you want to see how effective your communication skills can be, consider communicating only through painting – it’s like taking a painting class on hard mode.
Enjoy a kids-free date night
Paint and Sip Live is ideal for a kids-free date night. Pour a glass of wine or the beverage of your choice. Follow along with our paint class. Whether you’re a complete beginner or an expert painter,you get a memorable date night.
You also get a free decoration for your home. You can hang your painting on the wall to remember your painting masterpiece (or painting disaster) forever. Whether you’re a good or bad painter, we promise it will be a fun date night for you and your partner.
Final word
At Paint and Sip, we’ve hosted couples on first dates. We’ve also hosted couples that have been married for 30 years.Whether you’re early in the relationship or not, you can learn new things about each other by taking a painting class.
Schedule a painting class with Paint and Sip Live today. Discover how a painting class can kick start your relationship –or help you learn something new about a lifelong partner.
