Since it opened in 2019, wine and paint bar Brushstroke Corner has been making it easy for any adult to paint like a third grader. “When you step into Brushstroke Corner, we want you to unlock the creative juices you didn’t know you had,” said manager Stephanie Burch, staring admiringly at the malformed, bizarrely colored paintings of dogs and flowers lining the walls of her studio. “Or, really, the juices you had during your third-grade art class. With great wine and great company, something magical happens in here: you transform from an adult who doesn’t know how to paint at all into a child who knows how to paint a little bit.” At press time, the adults in the studio were cheerily signing their paintings in big sloppy letters.

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