The Dirty Easel is a place to lose your inhibitions, get creative, and paint! Whether you paint by yourself or together with your colleagues, whether you paint for two hours or a whole day, you’ll walk home with your very own unique painting and a new found creative confidence. Your facilitator will help you to feel at ease even if you have never painted before. You’ll learn the basics of acrylic paint and how to use brushes…but even more importantly you’ll learn how much fun it is to take some time and just play with paint.

The length and time for a team building event depends entirely on the objectives. Our workshops typically last between two hours and a full day. We also offer an ongoing creativity course that has a curriculum that stretches out over one year.

The Dirty Easel is a mobile painting studio. We come to wherever you want to paint or have your team building event. We can come right to your company, your executive retreat, or we can help you find the right location for you. We also work together with restaurants if you would like to combine the team building activities with a meal or drinks.

All of our team building events are customized to the needs of our clients. There is no one size fits all. This is why we always start with an initial assessment. After we have a good understanding about your goals and objectives we will then together find a program that matches your needs. Based on those informations we will be able to determine the price and give you a proposal.

Yes! Everyone can be creative. Chances are, when you were young, you did paint. And you loved it. Many who come to the Dirty Easel feel some trepidation, but they quickly get over it and get into the spirit. We would love for your team to experience how much fun it can be to play around with colors.

This is not a class that teaches you art techniques like an art academy. The idea of The Dirty Easel is to discover how to listen to your intuition and to be able to enjoy experimenting and playing without having to follow instructions. We are here to help your team to make that happen.

We will provide smocks to hold back most of the paint from your clothes. But please don’t wear anything that can’t stand a few additional color spots. We want you to feel free to dive into painting and not being worried about ruining your Versace shirt from Venice.

While we share the idea of socializing, painting, and perhaps drinking, our main philosophy is completely different. Our goal is not that at the end of the session everybody has the more or less (and some even lesser than less) the same painting in front of her. We love that at the end of a painting event with The Dirty Easel you can walk around and see a huge variety of very different and fascinating pieces of art. And just as life is rich and full of variations, so is art. This is your time to experience creativity and freedom, and we are here to help you achieve that goal. Our customers also say that they enjoy not being in direct competition with the other painters because it is quite easy to tell which “Starry Night” has been drawn by an experienced painter and which by a newbie – even step-by-step instruction can’t hide those facts. Plus, we want you to find your very own pace, your own groove and experience the joy that getting lost in your very own painting can give you. It is so exciting when you invent something that is uniquely yours and when you don’t know at the beginning how your painting is going to look like 2 hours later.

Yes we do. And a private painting party where everybody is active, creative, and busy while socializing at the same time is a great alternative to the same old same old. Painting with The Dirty Easel creates very special and unique memories for birthday parties, bachelorette nights, holiday gatherings, family reunions, corporate events, and more. Please click Private Parties for more information.

We love to hear from you and learn about your experience with The Dirty Easel. Please use the “Contact Us” form on our website or email us at info@thedirtyeasel.com.