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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
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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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She said she didn’t try to
worry too much about doing
everything exactly right, but
just had fun.
When the group was arriv-
ing, Spears told the newcom-
ers that some people were
more abstract and would fi n-
ish sooner and others were
more meticulous about try-
ing to recreate the painting
exactly.
“It’s your painting,” she
said. “It’s not going to look
like mine and it’s not going
to look like Tom’s.”
Tom Daulton and his wife
Carol Daulton both chose to
paint the sunfl owers. They
each worked on their own
canvas, but shared tips back
and forth. Tom said it was his
fourth time at one of Spears’
paint parties.
“I don’t count last time,”
he joked. “Last time was a
disaster.”
He said when Carol
wanted him to come to one
he was curious to see if he
was “expressive that way”
and found himself enjoying
it so much he kept coming
back.
Carol said they are “run-
ning out of wall space” at
home and will have to start
rotating which of their paint-
ings they display. Originally
she started coming to paint
nights because she had done
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