RSS

Tag Archives: paint

Wooden Block Banks! • April 17th, 2019

April 15

CRAFTNIGHT! @AKBAR! 9pm • April 17th, 2019 • Banks!

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. 

Mark Twain

Cube-shaped wooden banks are on the agenda this week. They’re unfinished hollow wood blocks, each one comes with its own plastic stopper! I’m breakin’ out the paints, you can paint each side a different color, or make little scenes, or write poems on the sides, whatever you like, theme it your way!

After you’re done painting your cube bank, you can glue some cool shapes to it, like googly eyes, or gems, or small fancy bits I’ll have on hand.

When you get that incredible windfall of cash from all the tax credits, loopholes and exemptions from not having to pay your 2018 tax return, you’ll have a place to put it! Oh… wait, sorry, I thought you were a corporation, I was talking to the wrong audience.

Woo, that was awkward, ha. Ahem.

This little bank could be just the place for loose change! You know, a spot for those bothersome nickels you find in your pocket at the end of the day. Maybe you need a home for all those pesky pennies weighing down your coin purse? Scrounge whatcha can and put it in yer new block bank! Whatever you don’t spend on penny whistles and moon pies can be used for a scoop of frozen yogurt, YAY!

See you at the Craft Table, JP Craft Captain

April Antics in Progress:

APRIL 24th – Cactus Wind Chimes

BET YER BOTTOM BINGO AKBAR • 7:30pm • APRIL 21ST, 2019 • An Easter-themed situation, want more details? FIND OUT MORE INFO

I’m directing Thelma & Leweeze the Musical!!! 4 shows, come seeeee!

THELMA & LEWEEZE the MUSICAL! @Cavern Club Celebrity Theater! May 3-11 TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

JP Happy Hour Mondays at Akbar: 4pm to 9pm! 15th, 22nd! Come on in and say hello!

 

Posted by on April 15, 2019 in EZ Craft, SPECIAL EVENT!

Comments Off on Wooden Block Banks! • April 17th, 2019

Tags: , , , ,

Wooden Safari Stand-Ups • August 1st, 2018

July 29

Wednesday, August 1st, 2018 at Akbar ’round 9ish to midnight (or later) it’s CRAFTNIGHT! 
Project: Wooden Safari Stand-Ups 
*******$4 PABST/TECATES • $5 Cocktail Special: fun in a glass!     
*********$3 suggested donation, please!

Heyyyyy it’s the FIRST of August, ever hear of Lughnasadh? Don’t worry, I won’t make you try to pronounce it, but just so’s you know, it’s a big fat holiday marking the beginning of the harvest season! It’s Gaelic, which means, of course, that it historically involved ritual athletic contests, feasting, dance-play, and hiking up large hills and mountains. Today’s rituals include crowning a goat as king of the Puck Festival in Killorglin, County Kerry (Ireland), as well as using butter churns and brandishing old-fashioned weapons.

Now that you’ve been informed, I’ll just let you know that we’re not doing any of that to mark the first of August at CraftNight, we’re just gonna paint some cool wooden safari animals. We have alligators, lions, hippos, giraffes, elephants, snakes, zebras, rhinos, primates, and trees. They are pretty much flat shapes, but they come with a little stand that helps it sit up so that it may be smartly displayed wherever you decide to present it.

If you’re considering starting a woodland wildlife park, consider this your invitation to start your menagerie! Make no mistake, with care and consideration, this is a bona fide actual TOY that is super adorable and durable. If you don’t want to use it as a stand-up, you can glue a magnet to the back and have some fridge decor! These are also lovely enough to festoon wrapped bday gifts… since it seems like everyone and their dog was born in August, you might need more birthday trinkets to give out than usual.

In any case, it’s a longform month, 31 days to be exact, so settle in, and make sure you pencil us in for your leisure activity life-balance roster.

If you dig meteor showers with a new moon (great visability!) the Perseid Meteor Shower will be puttin’ on a show August 11th, 12th, and 13th! It’s pretty much the best of the bunch as far as meteor showers for the western hemisphere goes, so if you want to see something quite lovely, get yourself to the night sky.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

Upcoming CraftNights: August 8th – DIY Paddleball Game, August 15th – Ocean Animal Sand Art, August  22nd, TBA Craft >>> 9pm • Wednesdays • Akbar >>> 4356 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90029 >>>>>> www.craftnightlosangeles.com

 

Posted by on July 29, 2018 in Painting Craft

Comments Off on Wooden Safari Stand-Ups • August 1st, 2018

Tags: , , , ,

Summer Suncatchers! • June 27th, 2018

June 26

ThisWednesday, June 27th, 2018 at Akbar it’s CRAFTNIGHT! 
Project: Summer Sun Catchers! 
*******$4 PABST/TECATES • $5 Cocktail Special, taking you to the next level!        
*********$3 suggested donation, please!
>>>>>> SPECIAL OFFSITE CRAFTIVISM July 4th w/Planet Q see below bulletin to RSVP! 

How’s your soul’s place in the fabric of things? Well, we’ve got sun catchers at CraftNight because it’s officially SUMMER and while things are gonna get hot, crafts are going to be cool as always. These lil’ clear plastic keepsakes are of various themes, and you fill them in with suncatcher paint, wait for them to dry, and then you hang them up in front of a window and it’s just lovely.

It’s that time of year when Los Angeles comes ALIVE. It’s time for pool parties, cookouts, tank tops, flip flops, stargazing, tan lines, hammocks, and all the summer lovin’ you can handle. Step into that summer light and shine. Allow light and warmth to find you, let’s get into expansion, sunshine, life with fervor. Because you’re wild and free, forget about someday, that shit’s just air and moonbeams, you’ve got now, let’s have some goddamn fun.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

JULY 4th >>> WEDNESDAY >>> 12 to 5 *** Haircuts, hot dogs and HELP! CraftNight will supply information on what you can do about helping families being detained at the border. Postcards for you to mail to reps, and ways to donate and help.

Border Angels is an all volunteer, non profit organization that advocates for human rights, humane immigration reform, and social justice with a special focus on issues related to issues related to the US-Mexican border.

FB EVENT HERE

UPCOMING IN JULY:

CraftNight EVERY Wednesday 9pm Akbar >>>> July 4th (Civil Rights Stickers Illustrated by your Craft Captain), MORE CRAFTS coming up July 11th, 18th, 25th!

Bet Yer Bottom BINGO JULY 15th at Akbar at 7:30PM it’s SUMMER LOVIN’ BINGOOOOOO!!! Take a chance on gambling, we’re the ones you wanna see!

 

Posted by on June 26, 2018 in Painting Craft

Comments Off on Summer Suncatchers! • June 27th, 2018

Tags: , , , , , , ,

Send in the Clowns • June 20th, 2018

June 20

TONIGHT!!! Wednesday, June 20th, 2018 at Akbar it’s CRAFTNIGHT! 
Project: Send in the CLOWNS
*******$4 PABST/TECATES • $5 Cocktail Special, the Silverlake Treat!        
*********$3 suggested donation, please!
>>>>>> SPECIAL OFFSITE CRAFTIVISM w/Planet Q see below bulletin to RSVP! 

CLOWNS!

Clowns! They remind you to play!

Clowns! They are the jesters of our times!

Clowns! They hide in gutters and EAT you when you decide to say hello to them!

How do you feel about clowns? I have lots of clown FACES. It’s just the faces, aren’t you delighted and excited? Some of them are goofy looking clown faces, others are more romantic-looking, more harlequin or mardi gras style. They’re made of plaster, you get to pick one from the variety and paint one for your very own.

Clowns are complex, they’ve always been unpredictable. They wear makeup so you can’t tell what their expression is, they do silly things or slapstick things… sometimes they’re drunk or chase people with knives! Woo!

Anyway, come in and paint a plaster clown face, it ain’t gonna killya… or will it? Eeeeeek!

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

JULY 4th >>> WEDNESDAY >>> 12 to 5 *** Haircuts, hot dogs and HELP! CraftNight will supply information on what you can do about helping families being detained at the border. Postcards for you to mail to reps, and ways to donate and help.

There are still over 4,000 children who won’t be reunited with their parents even after Trump’s new executive order. People coming across the border that are being criminalized, incarcerated, and traumatized are fleeing death and violence in their own countries. Trump’s new executive order won’t stop people from seeking asylum.

Border Angels is an all volunteer, non profit organization that advocates for human rights, humane immigration reform, and social justice with a special focus on issues related to issues related to the US-Mexican border.

FB EVENT HERE

 

Posted by on June 20, 2018 in Painting Craft

Comments Off on Send in the Clowns • June 20th, 2018

Tags: , , , , , ,

Tonight! PAINTY PAINT! • June 13th, 2018

June 13

TONIGHT: Wednesday, June 13th, 2018 at Akbar it’s CRAFTNIGHT! 
Project: Pride Paper Craft!
*******$4 PABST/TECATES • $5 Cocktail Special, it’s heating up, cool down with a beverage!       
*********$3 suggested donation, please! 

The colors of the rainbow will be on FULL DISPLAY tonight, ready for you to paint a project of your choosing. It’s GAY PRIDE MONTH so we’re embracing HUES. I’m talkin’ about the colors you see in the world, the colors you see in yourself, the colors of your friends, lovers, families. Come in and get a brush and touch color, bring color to life in the spirit of the rainbow of the things you hold dear from the past, the present, the future.

Because there’s something to be said for appreciating and eyeing color, but it’s another to make color, to use it. When you interact with a spectrum of your own creating, access to knowing attaches you to the world. Touching colors brings heart to seeing, because you’re part of it, you really really are! You can paint in solid colors, or add patterns, or paint a specific scene, object, or message. Perhaps you’ll give someone the keepsake you’ve made, or you’ll keep it for yourself.

As you paint, and if you can, see if you can free what’s been asleep at your core. Maybe it’s just annoyance at traffic, maybe it’s the scone you didn’t eat because you’re trying not to eat too many scones, perhaps it’s words you wanted to say but kept to yourself, all of these things are profound and worth exploration. We have big things and small things, we’re people… there are a lot of us, and it’s complicated.

If you have developed a callus over some part of your thinking, see if you can squeak some of those squashed or hidden emotions to the surface… with paint. It doesn’t have to be a big ol’ thang, it can be imperfect and silly or even kinda bratty. Whatever it is, challenge yourself to make it be real, an unfolding of your heart into the life you’re living.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

 

Posted by on June 13, 2018 in Painting Craft, Uncategorized

Comments Off on Tonight! PAINTY PAINT! • June 13th, 2018

Tags: , , , , , ,

← Older posts