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Artist Party


I love a good party! Today's theme is art/artist/crafty. I hope you get some great ideas to pull off your own Artist Party!

I finally got my porch decor updated to some sunny yellow pansies and a red rainboot I found! The three little pots are mint - Spearmint, Peppermint, & Sweet mint. We have a enormous amount of spiders living on our porch and hope to help them find a new home!

This particular party was set for 7-12 people. It was a highly involved party so I gave out invitations with RSVP's.
We ate some great food, but I have to say I'm used to pulling the theme into the food and I couldn't find a healthy way to get artist into the food. Every artist party I saw was for children and involved a ridiculous amount of sugar. So we simply had a gourmet Artists' Luncheon...



LUNCHEON:
Drinks: Chick-fil-A Lemonade, Ice-water (“Creative Juices”)
Food: 
Build your own bagel - bagel thins, deli meat, onion &chive cream cheese spread, spinach, tomatoes, bacon, avocado
Broccoli Salad
Blue and Regular tortilla chips with Tex-Mex corn dip (“Paint Chips”)
Dessert:
Sugar cookie mini fruit pizzas
Strawberry shortcake 

Next we filled our time with silly games that were fun and cheap (although if you can afford to do a real artists' party with canvases, paints, etc... everyone will love you!) 




As soon as the guests arrived they were given a new name from the artist name generator and 5 art bucks. They had to use their art name the entire party and if they got caught using anyones real name they lost $1. You can also get art bucks by winning games and contests. At the end of the party the person with the most money won a bouquet of flowers  The person who has the backward Van Gogh on his money wins a bag of chocolate! 

 Dixit is a German game that is a crazy cross between Balderdash and Apples to Apples. It's full of crazy, artsy, and psychedelic cards.

Another game was Pin the Smile on Mona Lisa - obviously a spin off of Pin the Tail on the Donkey!

The most "artsy" thing we did was a stencil drawing. I gathered together all of my scrapbooking stencils and my daughter's stencils. Each contestant was required to use a least one stencil on their page but from there it was open to creativity! At the end we voted on our favorite picture. Here are a few of our renowned artists!! :)


The Artist Matching game was a tuff one. We had a powerpoint of the famous painting and we had to decided which artist we thought painted it. Just a fun multiple choice/matching game. Rather hard though, I didn’t know a lot of them, I just know the names!! 
We played a game I called "Know Your Neighbor". Each person brought something like this to the party 
When Sarah reads a book does she choose:
  • Sci-fi
  • Biography
  • Romance
One answer is right, two are wrong.

It is always fun to learn new and funny things about your friends. Whether they are new friends or life long there is always something new you can learn about them!

Party prizes and favors are always fun. And they don't have to be expensive. 
What would you add to an Artists' Party?

Sarah 
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