Brooklyn artist and entrepreneur Lett Luckain has described as “a terrific success” a “Sip and Paint” occasion she carried out final Saturday within the Fellowship Corridor at Fenimore Road United Methodist Church in Brooklyn.
“I’m grateful for the chance to mix my love for artwork and trend right into a thriving enterprise,” Luckain, founder and proprietor of Certain Let’s Create, instructed Caribbean Life afterwards. “From sip and paint events to pictures, inside design and trend design, I’m able to specific myself and assist others faucet into their very own interior creativity.
“One of many highlights of my journey with Certain Let’s Create was organizing the sip and paint occasion,” she added. “It was a terrific success, with over 40 folks coming collectively to create artistic endeavors. The environment was crammed with pleasure and openness as everybody, together with myself, dove into the method of making one thing stunning. It was really a blessed expertise.
“As an artist and entrepreneur, I imagine within the energy of making and the enjoyment it brings,” continued Luckain, a “proud” graduate of Texas Southern College, the place she earned her Bachelor of Advantageous Arts (John T. Biggers Faculty of Artwork).
She additionally has background in trend design and trend merchandising from the Trend Institute of Expertise (FIT) in decrease Manhattan.
“I’m devoted to inspiring and instructing others find out how to discover their very own inventive spark,” Luckain stated. “Whether or not it’s by means of portray, pictures or trend design, I attempt to assist people uncover their interior artist and embrace their distinctive skills.”
She absolutely helped individuals at Fenimore’s “Paint and Sip” occasion to “discover their very own inventive spark”, as Dianne Brown, the Jamaican-born chair of the Fenimore Road United Methodist Church Greater Training Scholarship Fund Committee, testified.
“The turnout was a blast, most from the tickets holders confirmed up for the occasion,” Brown instructed Caribbean Life. “The teacher, Lett Luckain, was marvelous. Luckain reassured the viewers that they’ll do a terrific job, in the event that they chill out and belief her.
“After I noticed how the viewers settled down, targeted on their artwork work and listened to the artwork teacher, I knew then that this exercise was completely obligatory,” she added. “The relaxed ambiance brings out the artist in everybody.”
Brown stated it was additionally “thrilling to see the younger kids portray on their very own phrases as properly.
“We offered smaller canvases, wood crafts and paints for them, as a result of we imagine in inclusiveness,” she stated. “There have been moments of laughter. Some folks had been making humorous remarks about their artwork, and a few had been simply telling jokes. It was a wonderful occasion, and I used to be overwhelmed with pleasure to see their pleased faces with their work.”
Because of this, Brown stated patrons are asking for one more “Paint and Sip” occasion, ideally within the spring.
“My group and I are getting constructive suggestions about this occasion,” she stated. “The individuals who stated ‘I can’t paint’ had been so enamored with the artwork piece that a couple of talked about about framing theirs.
“There’s a piece of magic in each certainly one of us, and you’ll by no means know till you attempt one thing new,” Brown added. “Our expectations had been met. We wished folks to have a very good time, they usually did.”
Ayshea de Roche-Cummins, a Brooklyn resident and native of the southern St. Vincent Grenadine island of Canouan, stated she had “a very good time.”
“It was fairly good,” stated de Roche-Cummins, who introduced alongside her daughter, Tasha, 18, to take part within the occasion.
“I’ve extra creative abilities than I count on,” added de Roche-Cummins, whose uncles – Ossie, Ipa and Monty Constance – are main creative and cultural figures in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
She additionally disclosed that her son, Neil, 15, is an artist.
“The artwork is misplaced on me,” stated de Roche-Cummins in jest.
Curlin M, final identify withheld, a Grenadian nationwide residing in Brooklyn, stated she “cherished each second I spent at Fenimore’s UMC Paint and Sip occasion.”
“The artist was interactive and nice,” she stated. “Every part went properly. I really like the environment. Can hardly wait for one more one.”
Selma C, one other Grenadian nationwide who resides in Brooklyn and desires her final identify to be withheld, stated the occasion was “very inventive and interesting.”
“The artist defined every little thing clearly in order that we have now a transparent understanding of what to do,” she stated. “It was enjoyable, I cherished it, and I’m wanting ahead to a different.”
Brown stated the Greater Training Scholarship Fund Committee labored “actually exhausting” in planning the occasion, and that she wished it to be “a calming night of finger meals, non-alcoholic drinks, upbeat classical music, meet and greet, and portray.
“Some folks requested, ‘what are we going to color?’” she stated. “However I couldn’t say; it could not be enjoyable.”
Brown thanked her group, patrons and supporters for making the occasion attainable, stating: “We couldn’t have completed it with out you.”
