Workshops & Art

Art Date Ideas in Marikina: 6 Plans That Beat Another Dinner

Six art date ideas in Marikina, from painting each other's portraits to making a zine together, plus where to get coffee before or after.

Dinner dates are fine. But you remember the dates where you made something, especially if it turned out terrible.

1. Portraits of each other

Ten minutes, oil pastels, no peeking. Swap at the end. Guaranteed laughing.

2. One painting, two people

Share a single sheet of watercolour paper. One person starts, the other continues, no talking about the plan.

3. Clay gifts

Each of you makes a small air-dry clay dish for the other. They dry in a day or two and you paint them on the next date. Two dates for one idea.

4. A zine about you two

Fold a one-sheet zine and fill it together: how you met, your favourite orders, inside jokes. Photocopy it. You each keep one.

5. A café crawl with a notebook

Pick three coffee shops from the Marikina coffee shop directory, or follow its café hopping itinerary. At each stop, both of you write a review in the same Marikina Field Notes. Read each other's entries at the end. If you are out late, there is a list of late-night cafés in Marikina.

6. Songs in the nook

If either of you plays, borrow one of the studio guitars and sit by the window with the mountains in view. One sings, one strums, both pretend it sounded good.

How to book the studio for a date

We are a home studio and only host by arrangement, which means when you come, it is just you. Send an inquiry, tell us which idea you like, and we will have the table ready.