Exuberantly get your art on at Splatter!
The Ferndale art studio offers 60-minute sessions that allow patrons to spray, sprinkle, and – of course, splatter – their way to artistic masterpieces.
Splatter currently offers two artists’ adventures: Splatter Masterpiece and Pour + Spin. Via a Splatter Masterpiece session, guests use various types of brushes to fling various colors of paint at 16-by-20-inch canvases hung at their respective artist’s stations, to the beat of upbeat music blasting throughout the studio.
One of the Splatter Masterpiece painting tools is more Super Soaker-esque than brush-like. It allows an artist to pull up paint into a foam tube, then spray it (at impressive velocity) at their canvas!
The Pour + Spin Splatter package also allows painters to flick, splatter, and splash paint onto a 16-by-20-inch canvas. The twist here (pun totally intended!) is that the canvas is attached to a table that’s continually spinning – yielding cool, momentum-inspired patterns.
Each of the two art packages includes a few minutes of instruction from Splatter’s awesome staff artists – who are also on hand to regularly change brush water and help as needed – plus a full suit of protective regalia: plastic ponchos with hoods, zip-up jumpsuits, and plastic booties that not only cover your shoes, but extend up your thighs. Not a drop of paint sullied my clothes during my Splatter Masterpiece session!
My friends and I had an absolute blast at Splatter. It was delightful to watch our paintings morph and change over the course of our hour-long sessions. Mine (shown above, in the second photo) ended up a drippy, trippy kaleidoscope of colors that I quite like. It’s a memento of that Friday night I spent blowing off steam at Splatter, in my own personal art-therapy session – an experience I most exuberantly recommend!
1956 Hilton Rd.
Ferndale, MI 48220
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