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LOCAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2019 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A3 Paint nights provide creative outlet By JADE MCDOWELL NEWS EDITOR Judy Brown was chan- neling her inner Vincent van Gogh. The Irrigon woman was streaking blue and aquama- rine paint across a canvas at Desert Lanes Bowling Alley in Hermiston on Thursday, creating a backdrop for the jellyfi sh she would add later. “I’ve never even held a brush,” she confessed. She showed up at a “paint party” on Thursday, however, because she knew the artist, Kathy Spears, and thought it would be fun to try. “I decided I need a hobby,” she said. “I’m stretching my brain.” Paint nights have become a popular phenomenon, the latest beginner art trend on the heels of coloring books for adults. Participants show up to a party where the paint, brushes, easels, canvas and other supplies are provided and then are led through cre- ating a painting step by step. The most famous step-by- step painting instructor was Bob Ross, an American artist who hosted an instructional television program from 1983 to 1994 on PBS. Since his death in 1995 his legacy in pop culture has grown, aided by his show’s avail- ability on Netfl ix and the Ins- tagrammable nature of paint nights with friends (and, usu- Staff photo by Kathy Aney Alyia Munoz concentrates during paint night Thursday at Desert Lanes in Hermiston. ally, wine). Spears has been hosting “paint parties” around Uma- tilla and Morrow counties for about three years now, including one Thursday a month at the bowling alley. She started painting after she fi nished treatment for cancer. “I needed something to think about besides the can- cer,” she said. “I’m fi ve years cancer-free. I don’t want to think about it every day — is the cancer going to come back? Every cancer survivor needs a hobby.” Eventually she attended a couple of paint nights with friends up in the Tri-Cities, and decided it was something she could do. She started building up supplies and cre- ating paintings that she could teach others to recreate. Maxwell Farmers Market opens this week “Pinterest is a great inspi- ration,” she said. “Or some- one will say to me, ‘I want to paint a tree,’ or whatever and I’ll see what I can come up with.” Thursday’s participants — 10 women and one man — had a choice between painting a sunfl ower or a jel- lyfi sh, both of which rested on the same streaked back- ground in various shades of blue and green. A couple of participants brought their own picture they wanted to reproduce and Spears merely helped them as needed. Alyia Munoz said it was her second paint night she had attended. “It’s just relaxing,” she said. “It’s something fun to do with my mom and grandma, and it’s not some- thing you would do every Funland Park Reconstruction Committee seeking applications HERMISTON HERALD By JADE MCDOWELL NEWS EDITOR The Maxwell Farmers Market will offer fresh pro- duce and other local goods to Hermiston residents starting this week. The market’s opening day is Thursday, May 23. It will run each Thursday from 4-8 p.m. at the Max- well Siding Pavilion, 255 N. First St. in Hermiston. Live music starts at 5 p.m., with Staff photo by E.J. Harris,File Dallin Puzey kicking off the Isela Bautista, center, of Sunnyside, Washington, restocks ears market’s opening day. Organizers Miranda Tor- of corn at her booth for Bautista Farms at the 2018 Maxwell res and Nicole Brown said Farmers Market. many of last year’s vendors are returning and there will in a a row. iston put construction of “Thursday nights seemed the permanent shade struc- be several new offerings this year, including home- to work well because people ture behind schedule, push- made salsa, leather works, can go unwind after work ing the market under a large ice cream, a second bakery and do some local shop- tent on the corner of Locust ping and get dinner and lis- Avenue and South First and fresh eggs. Beverages from Hermis- ten to music,” Brown said. Place. ton Brewing Company will The night also helps bring This year’s market will also be available on-site in vendors who are already be inside the pavilion, kit- again this year. committed to other markets ty-corner from the 2018 “We try to do a ratio so on weekends. location. Parking will be that we don’t have all crafts, One thing that has available at the pavilion, on or all value-added foods,” changed is the location. the street and on the lot that Brown said. The Maxwell Farm- hosted last year’s market. 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