If you wanted a seat at the bar at Stonebridge Bar & Grille in Onset on Wednesday night, you might have found yourself with an unusual place setting: a blank canvas, and paint brushes replacing the silverware.

The Stonebridge Bar & Grille hosted a Paint Night fundraiser put on by the Onset Bay Association to benefit the Onset Beautification Committee's fund. The committee has been in existence for just over 20 years, and is currently made up of about 10 volunteers who work to clean up areas around the village, plant flowers, and mulch around flower beds.

The paint night was led by local artist Ginny Lewis who gave step-by-step painting lessons to the fundraiser's 23 attendees. The group's aim was to try to replicate Lewis' painting of Onset Pier on a blue-sky day, with the gazebo in the forefront, and Wickets Island in the distance.

“I think it's great that we're painting Onset,” Wareham resident Sue Scipone said. “I've been to paint parties before, but what we painted was never something I was familiar with.”

Pat Bergstrom of Onset was unimpressed with her painting's progress, but made light of her novice art talent.

“I looked at the picture and thought, 'I'm never going to be able to do that in two hours,'" Bergstrom said. "No boat is going to pass between Burgess Point and Wickets Island in my painting. They're a little too close together.”

Onset Beautification Committee member Kathy Judd estimated the fundraiser garnered $1000 from admission tickets and raffle sales. Judd's husband Bill Judd, an artisan who hand-crafts Nantucket woven baskets, designed a clutch purse that was raffled off. Wareham resident Lisa Powers won the clutch.

The money raised from the fundraiser will be put towards the purchase of mulch, flowers, soil and fertilizer for the Onset Beautification Committee to use.

“Recently, we did a lot of work around the [Onset Pier],” Onset Beautification Committee Co-Chair Linda Gay said. “In the corner of the pier, we pulled up a lot of dead stuff. We also worked with an arborist to trim trees.”

Committee co-chair Lorraine McDonald said the committee's next goal is to refurbish the gazebo.

“Tt's falling down, there's been a lot of weddings there. I would really like to see it fixed up,” McDonald said.