Puff, Puff, Paint is The Artist Tree's recurring painting class inside its licensed consumption lounges — two hours, one canvas, a working artist walking the room, and a standing invitation to settle into the lounge before you pick up a brush. Sessions rotate between the company's Los Angeles-area lounges, and every one is 21 and over.
A Class, Not a Gimmick
Every session is led by artist Stormy Tripp, owner of The Painting Joint — a working painter who teaches for a living, not a staff member handing out brushes. The Artist Tree runs the series itself rather than renting the room to an outside promoter, which keeps the format consistent from one lounge to the next.
The organizers' own advice sets the tone: bring an open mind and clothes you do not mind getting a little paint on, and come early to enjoy the lounge before getting creative. The lounge hour before class is half the point — the session starts loose instead of stiff, and nobody is grading the canvas. No painting experience is expected or required, and recent sessions have come sponsored, with Selfies backing the August 2026 date.
Rotating Lounges, Separate Sessions
The series moves between The Artist Tree's consumption lounges rather than living at one address. The next date lands at the Hawthorne lounge at 4756 West Imperial Highway in Inglewood on Sunday, August 30, 2026, from 4 to 6 PM, sponsored by Selfies, with free parking on site — full details on the live listing.
A West Hollywood session follows at the 8625 Santa Monica Boulevard lounge on Saturday, September 26, 2026, same 4-to-6 window. These are separate sessions, not one event listed twice — if the drive decides it for you, both sit within reach of most of LA's west side.
Who It Suits
The pitch is couples, friends and small groups, and the two-hour runtime backs that up. It works as a date, a birthday plan, or a genuine alternative to a bar night: you make something, you take it home, and you have not committed the whole evening.
It is also the easiest on-ramp to lounge culture LA currently offers. Plenty of people stall on trying a licensed consumption lounge because sitting in one with nothing to do feels strange. Handing everyone a canvas removes that problem entirely.
Before You Book
Tickets run through The Artist Tree's event pages and Eventbrite, and the refund policy is blunt: there are none, so be sure before you commit. Rooms like these seat a limited number of people, so booking ahead is the move. Bring ID — the 21+ door is not a suggestion.
The High Rise Take
A recurring class is its own review — this one keeps coming back because people keep showing up, which is more than most cannabis programming can claim once the novelty run wears off. The Artist Tree marked seven years in business in 2026 with locations across California from West Hollywood to Fresno, and its lounges are the clearest thing separating it from every other dispensary chain in the state.
The painting class also is not floating alone on that calendar. The same lounges run gallery shows and brand tasting nights, so Puff, Puff, Paint sits inside a real programming slate rather than being the one event a marketing team dreamed up — and the difference shows in how the rooms feel.
Puff, Puff, Paint is the program that keeps those rooms alive between product drops — low-stakes, genuinely social, and built around making something instead of just buying something. More LA nights like it live on the High Rise events calendar.