Materials that aren't an afterthought
Stretched canvas, real acrylics, brushes that haven't been through forty sessions. Cheap kits are the fastest way to leave with a painting you won't hang.
Lekki guide
The best sip and paint in Lekki.
What separates a good painting evening from a room full of plastic aprons — and where we send people when they ask.
What to look for
A room you'd sit in anyway
Half of a paint and sip is the venue. Light, seating, music at a level you can talk over. A conference room with a projector is not it.
Food that keeps pace with the painting
The best sessions in Lekki run like a dinner — courses arriving between stages of the piece, not one sad platter at the halfway mark.
Guidance, not a lecture
A host who walks the room and unsticks people beats a strict step-by-step everyone falls behind on.
Honest pricing
You should know before you pay what's included: canvas, materials, drinks, food. Add-ons discovered at the table sour the evening.
A crowd worth meeting
Sessions attached to an existing community — a book club, a run club, a supper club — tend to have better conversation than open-ticket events.
Our pick
Sip and Paint .NG at The Sidebar
We're biased — The Sidebar is where Silent Book Club Lekki meets every month — but the sessions Sip and Paint .NG runs there are the ones we actually recommend to friends. Materials are included, the room is the renovated dining space rather than a hired hall, and the food comes in courses while you paint.
Three sittings are offered: The Greenhouse (three courses and a Green House signature cocktail), The Vine (small plates), and Conservatory (starter, main and dessert with a full cocktail list). Booking and payment run on Sip and Paint .NG's own checkout.
- Where: 13 Emma Abimbola Cole, off Fola Osibo Rd, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos
- Includes: canvas, paints, brushes, guided piece, food and a cocktail
- Experience needed: none
Sip and paint for book lovers
A creative date night after book club.
Nobody in Lagos really programmes for this, so we will: a sip and paint is the most natural second half of a reading afternoon. You've spent an hour quiet and inside your own head with a novel — painting keeps that mood going while giving your hands something to do and the conversation somewhere to start.
It works as a creative date night too. Two people who don't know each other well do better with a task between them than with a table and a menu. Come to the free Silent Book Club session first, stay for the painting after.
Book clubs, book-tok friends and reading pairs regularly take a table together. Tell us at the meetup and we'll seat you as a group.
Questions
How much does sip and paint cost in Lagos?
Prices in Lagos vary widely depending on whether food and drinks are included. Sip and Paint .NG sessions at The Sidebar are quoted at booking, because each package is built around a different sitting — a three-course menu, a small-plates spread, or a starter-main-dessert run — with canvas, materials and a signature cocktail included. You see the exact price before you pay, on the booking page.
Book a Sip and Paint session in LekkiWhat should I expect at a sip and paint session?
An easel, a canvas, paints and brushes set at your place, a guided piece everyone works through at their own pace, and a drink in your other hand. At The Sidebar the food arrives in courses alongside the painting, so it runs like a long, unhurried dinner rather than a class with a bell at the end.
Book a Sip and Paint session in LekkiDo I need any art experience?
None. Every session is guided step by step and the whole point is that thirty people paint the same thing and produce thirty different paintings. If you can hold a brush and a glass at once, you're qualified.
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