Pig and Paint Party for 20

Richmond's best-known muralist Ed Trask will create a paint-by-number landscape mural that you and your guests will paint at your Pig and Paint Party. Ed's work, which you've seen all over town on buildings including Ellwood Thompson, Hardywood Brewery, The Daily, Kuba Kuba and Sidewalk Café, adds charm and unique quality to our beloved city.

After consulting with you before your party, Ed will draw his design on individual wood panels and provide you with paint and instructions to complete each panel. Once the panels are finished, Ed will install them and put the finishing touches on the mural. As part of this year's Paddle Raise for Superhuman Fitness, your mural will be installed in the Seal Athletic Center weight room for every Cougar to enjoy. A plaque commemorating those involved in the painting will also be included. Involve as many or as few participants in creating the final masterpiece as you wish!

A Sharper Palate will provide a pickup barbeque dinner for 20 for you to enjoy while you are painting. A $500 gift certificate to Classic Party Rental is also included for a tent or tables -- whatever you need to complete your party! Party must be scheduled on a mutually agreeable date. The months of May and June are excluded. Expiration date is Sept. 30, 2021.

More about Ed Trask: After growing up in Loudoun County Virginia, Ed left his rural existence, moved to Richmond and enrolled in the VCU's painting program. While in school he spent every waking hour playing music in the mid-'80s Richmond punk scene and painting. By his third year in school, after many attempts to get gallery attention, he decided to make the many dilapidated buildings surrounding his school his gallery. Paintings were painted directly on buildings, or done on boards and screwed onto the buildings illegally until the city was covered.

In 1992, Ed graduated with a painting degree and moved to Washington D.C. ,where he started touring with Dischord records band the Holy Rollers, and continued to paint illegal murals all over the world. Three years later, he moved back to Richmond to join the band Kepone. While the demand for his paintings started to grow, he figured he should start a gallery and make a go at mural and sign work. Since then, the work has never stopped flowing in, and Ed's paintings and murals have been collected into many permanent collections including Gap, Capitol One, Dominion Energy, Fortune Magazine, N.B.C. Philip Morris, Media General and Play inc. He continues to paint murals, create collaborative projects and work as a corporate consultant.