NEXT SKETCHY! (Also: Thanks & So Long For Now)

Hey again art monkeys!

Here's the scoop: The next Dr. Sketchy will be on SUNDAY OCTOBER 10 from 6-9pm at historic Cliff Bell's in Detroit. If you've never been to this beautifully restored bar before, check out the photos on their website. It's a perfect setting for burlesque! Modeling will be two out-of-town guests, Bella Sin from Ohio and Sweet Lilly Bee from Minnesota. Doors open at 5pm, and it's still just $5 to sketch!

In other news: I have decided after four years to hand the reins of Dr. Sketchy in Detroit over to someone else. Frequent Sketchy model and local burly-Q phenom Toni Lemaux (aka Lushes Lamoan — that's her up top there, thanks for the photo Scott!) will be taking over and I expect great things from her (starting with the gig described above). I hope you'll follow her on future Sketchy adventures. I will definitely be there, sketching instead of officiating for a change!

As soon as Lushes' official blog is set up I'll direct you there and declare this one closed (I may leave it up with a refer to hers, or transfer the art and photos to a Flickr site for posterity).

To all of you who came to sketch, to all our venues, models and sponsors: I can't thank you enough for your help in making Dr. Sketchy such a hit here. I had a blast putting it together! There's too much talent in the art and burlesque scenes in Detroit to not have a Sketchy branch here, so I hope you'll all support the next incarnation of Dr. Sketchy in the future!

-Sean

I shall call him "Mini-Sketchy"

The big anniversary bash wasn't the very latest Sketchy event in town, oh no! There was a mini-Sketchy that broke out during the People's Art Festival at the Russell Industrial Center on Sunday, August 29! Sketchy fan-faves Satori Circus and Lushes LaMoan suited up to pose (despite the heat) for dedicated sketchers and curious passers-by alike, in front of the Motor City Blog booth. I even did some chalk sketches on the pavement! Photos courtesy MCB, art by Jim Anderson.

More sweet 4th anniversary photos...

...by Scott McKeeve, shot at the historic Scarab Club in Detroit. First a few of the beautiful Sassy Katt of the Hell's Belles burlesque troupe...



And here's JJ Plush, pin-up model extraordinaire!

Dr. Sketchy Detroit: "I'm four years old!"

Finally getting some art and photos up from the big anniversary celebration at the Scarab Club in August. Thanks to all who made it such a blast!

Seriously - how many figure drawing sessions have you been to that had not just one, but TWO lovely burlesque models (photos by Scott McKeeve)...

...PLUS a swell-as-hell old-timey band like the Motor City Sidestrokers...



...AND a freakin' totally-outta-nowhere marching band??


I'll tell you how many - ZERO! Anyway... the art! Check out these sketches of Sassy Katt and J.J. Plush (click 'em to enlarge) by Jennifer...


...and Jim...



...and Suzanne...



...and me.



There's room for yours too if you'd like to send it in. More of Scott's photos to come (because they're so darn cool), and some images from the min-Sketchy at the People's Art Festival.