Painting Session at The Mud Mill Lodi
Yesterday, Miles and I got to enjoy our first painting session at The Mud Mill Lodi, a pottery painting studio located in Downtown Lodi, CA. We got invited by a friend to join her and her daughter to paint some ceramics. Miles and his friend had such a blast decorating ornaments and an old truck!
The way it works at The Mud Mill is you pay per person for a 2 hour studio session, which includes all your paint and supplies but not the pottery itself. Each kid is $6 and each adult is $8. All of the pottery is lining the wall for you to browse and choose from, the cost written on the back/underside of the item. This ranges from serving ware to light-up items to small decorative pieces. Your party gets a table with all the tools you need to paint the items of your choosing. There's a paint station where one of the employees gives you a small plate of paint to work on (unlimited paint bar, if you will). After your painting session, you come back a few days later to pick up your pieces. I'm really excited to see how Miles' artwork came out!
We did 3 ornaments and a votive Christmas truck; the truck has holes throughout the piece for light to leak through. We'll be gifting out the ornaments, but the truck will be something Miles and I get to treasure forever! Ornaments cost $6-12 a piece, and this truck cost $20. The kids had the best time going up to the paint station and picking out different colors to decorate with! We finished up their pieces by using their fine tip writer paint dispensers to write the kids' names on their pieces.
Over the next few days, they'll be baking the pottery and adding top coats to seal in the kid's work. The wait time for pickup varies throughout the year, so our wait time might look differently than yours. I'll be creating a post to show off all of Miles' paint projects once we pick those up next week!
Nervous about booking your first pottery painting session and need a little more advice or info? Check out this post where I cover the most important information you need going into an experience like this!
