Besties, booze and brilliant art. Paint and sip Gold Coast style with classes that bring together all my favourite things. From day-drinking creative bonanzas, to twilight artsy affairs. Splosh, swoosh and glide your way to your next pièce de résistance. Whether that’s a wistful landscape, vibey scene or your best mate in pop art form. Paw-traits are even a thing now, too.
In my experience, liquid courage mixed with skilled mentors and quality supplies leads to free-flowing expression that might not otherwise have made its way outta you. Didn't Andy Warhol paint his best self-portrait work after a few bottles of red? Maybe you will too. Or at the very least, you'll end with a great story.
For me, the best paint and sip classes must have a sweet setup, an encouraging teacher and the ability to sip a good drop, obvi. Lucky for you, there’s a paint and sip class for every stroke of folk.
Myself and the Urban List team rounded up only the best. So gather the gals, your other half, or even your office crew. And uncork your creativity with this round up of the best places to paint and sip on the Gold Coast/Kombumerri Country. No experience necessary.
Gold Coast's Best Paint & Sip Classes At A Glance
North Gold Coast Paint & Sip Classes
Ashley Bunting Studio
Bistro 19 Sanctuary Cove, 5 Masthead Way, Hope Island QLD 4212
Decorate your walls with painted florals, furry friends or creatures of the deep with your pro-guided masterclass at Ashley Bunting Studio. These paint and sip classes run on the Gold Coast every weekend with your canvas, paint, brushes, easel and apron ready and waiting for you.
Hosted in Sanctuary Cove's Bistro 19, add a charcuterie board to your order and nibble your way around a selection of salami, prosciutto, seasonal fruits, dips and nuts while you’re at it. The best bit? Every class begins with a complimentary glass of bubbles. Don't mind if I do.
Paint Juicy
Various Gold Coast locations
Did someone order drinks with a side of disco? From star signs and nude muses to a good old-fashioned paint your pet sesh. Paint Juicy doesn’t muck around with their wide stretch of styles and locales. Proudly an LGBTQIA+ inclusive space, come and express yourself on the canvas and in general, too. Classes span across the Gold Coast, so you can slap some paint on your 90s themed piece in Robina, rock up to Drag paint and sip in Southport, or transport to the 80s in Helensvale.
This has got to be the best paint and sip Gold Coast entertainment-seekers head along to for its interactive, light-hearted and more-than-art experience. Even if your painting style can only be described as 'rusty'. Retro playlists feature your fave old school hits (looking at you Backstreet Boys) and their psychedelic-meets-disco studios almost guarantee your creative juices will flow as effortlessly as your BYO beverages.
Central Gold Coast Paint & Sip Classes
The Art Exchange
Roma Park Via Roma & Verona Ave, Surfers Paradise QLD 4217
You’ve heard of a tipsy text. How about a plonked up portrait? Paint your pet, date or mate with The Art Exchange and your favourite secret weapon, a bottle of bubbles. Arguably hosting the most diverse range of paint and sip Gold Coast classes, local pro-artist Chad Stevens is here to pop-artify your pal painting as you create that gift that keeps on giving. A literal painting of your friend while they return the favour before your very eyes, in real time. Cue the smirks, side eyes and hilarious reveal.
Or flex your bristles with a purrfect pawtrait of your furry friend. How? Flick through a photo of Fido a few days before the event, and the friendly team will have a sketch ready to swirl your paintbrush over on the night. Their paint and sip calendar is honestly brimming with classes, so I'm a firm believer that you'll find something epic to head along to. Plus it's across the road from Edgewater Dining and Lounge Bar where you can continue the good times after class.
Wesley Taylor Art Studios
Fin McCool, 39 Cavill Ave, Surfers Paradise QLD 4217
Mudgee Thai, 69 Railway St, Mudgeeraba QLD 4213
If your nighttimes are reserved for cocooning with Netflix or telling your plant babies how cute they are, Wesley Taylor Art Studios Gold Coast paint and sip classes are your go-to. Kicking off at 2pm in Cavill Avenue on the first Saturday of every month, feel very adult with a day drinking-fuelled workshop. Hey, it's much more responsible than the late night kebab 'extra pineapple' requests in the very same street a few years back. Just me?
Want to sip and… something else? Opt for clay play at Mudgee Thai on the third Friday of every month at 730pm, on the last Saturday of every month. Ranging from $25 to a sweet $45 a pop, there’s a flamingo, flower arrangement or flaming hot sunset with your name on it.
Pinot & Picasso
7/2723 Gold Coast Hwy, Broadbeach QLD 4218
Rumour has it, creativity is found at the bottom of a Pinot Noir. It’s also undoubtedly lurking inside Pinot & Picasso’s Broadbeach studio. Arrive with zero experience and an unquenchable thirst for creativity.
Simply BYO snacks, and plonk (they have the glasses sorted), and settle in for two to three hours of creating. I personally have a Frida Kahlo in my house that was created here and let's just say she's a one-of-a-kind.
This locale is kind of hidden, though easily accessible from Broadbeach North tram station and if you're driving, I recommend parking in Oasis Shopping Centre. You could even make a day of it with a long lunch at kōst afterwards or dinner at Maggie Choo just around the corner if you nab an evening slot.
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Southern Gold Coast Paint & Sip Classes
The Sweet Fine Artist Studio
2/3 Karen Ave, Mermaid Beach QLD 4218
Tucked away in Mermaid Beach’s creative corner, The Sweet Fine Artist Studio is the brainchild of artist Maree Quinn. A stone’s throw from The Borrowed Nursery, Maree swung open her doors in 2018 to share her talents and techniques learned over the past two-and-a-bit decades.
If you're like me, pairing your art with sips is basically the only way anything is created. So it's refreshing to know that Maree hosts all kinds of art-making with drink clinking. From painting to textured boards, lino cutting to gellie collage printing with BYO textures. Even clay and sips.
Paint and sip classes run every single week, for canvases or tote bags if wearable art is more your thing. Fridays at 6pm or Saturdays at 2:30pm you'll get cracking with the art theme posted in advance.
Set inside an airy space kitted out with upcycled furniture tenderly restored by Maree herself, this inspiring studio sets the scene to unfurl your creative genius during one of her frequent paint and sip classes on the Gold Coast. No need to pack paints, paper, your canvas, apron or glassware, Maree’s sorted the lot. Simply BYO booze, bites and a mind on the brink of something beautiful.
The Bubbly Canvas
4/13 John Duncan St, Varsity Lakes QLD 4227
Pop a cork, wet your whistle and weave a paintbrush between your knuckles. The Bubbly Canvas has sketched up Gold Coast’s best paint and sip classes for you and your mini me. Featuring guaranteed giggles and with classes guided by the dang popular Jess, you may even leave with more than a masterpiece for your home, but new friends too.
Channel your inner artisté at a parent-child art class, give your little tacker a gentle nudge into a school holiday class. Or fly solo with a paint and sip sesh featuring a glass of bubbles and snack platter with every booking. I'm kind of obsessed with this idea of getting the kids involved, but then there's also adults only classes at night too. Basically, this place is your go-to to get crafty and sip juice or grape juice, if you know what I mean.
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Image credit: Pinot & Picasso, Paint Juicy
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