More spooktacular art

Jennifer Rose Evans sent this collage of sketches from our session with Lisa on Thursday (click it to enlarge and get a better look).Not only was it her first Sketchy, she says it was her first time working from a formal live model! You can see more of her work on her Deviant Art site.


UPDATE: Just got these great studies from DS repeat customer Kevin, too.

DS October: Lisa and the Spiders from Mars

It was a full house at Blick's in Dearborn last night, listening to creepy stories and silly songs on the Halloween satellite radio and sketching Lisa as she lounged on her skull throne, battled giant arachnids and ate treats. Many thanks as always to everyone who came out, and special thanks to Paul and the staff at Blick for having us and supplying the swell raffle prizes! Here's some art, two by me and three more by regular contributer John. Send yours!






Also, as I mentioned last night, Hatch, the art collective based in Hamtramck, is trying to drum up new members. We're in the process of renovating the old police station in town to convert it to an arts center with gallery, studio and retail space. Find out more about Hatch at our website and consider joining up!

DR SKETCHY THIS THURSDAY, OCT. 29

Just a reminder to everyone to come by Blick Art Materials on Michigan Ave. in Dearborn at 6pm Thursday October 29 for Dr. Sketchy's Halloween session! Check the previous blog post for more details and to get a glimpse of drawings of our lovely model Lisa.

Contact Blick Art Materials at 313-581-7063

See you there!
Sean

Next Dr. Sketchy: THURS. OCT. 29 6-9PM!

Hey all! So here it comes, the Halloween '09 Dr. Sketchy session, this time back at Blick Art Materials in Dearborn! Modeling this time will be Lisa, who heroically came to pose at the mini-Sketchy held at the People's Art Festival this past August. (Drawings of her here by friend-of-Sketchy Jim Anderson.) Lisa mentioned a "dead doll" costume she's been working on, so expect some seasonal creepiness! (And plenty of treats, too)

So mark your calendars - Thursday, October 29, from 6-9pm - and I'll give you more details as I nail them down.

More Hayley Jane from Sept. Dr. Sketchy

Just got back from a week's vacation, but here's some more excellent art from last month's session - pen sketches by Ray Stanczak and color collages by Doug Blanchard. Plans are afoot for October, so stay tuned.

Hayley Jane by Kevin & Britt

Some great sketches from a couple of DS regulars. First two by Kevin:


Then a few by Britt:

September Sketchy photos

Not loving ths new camera of mine so much, but I did get a few okay pictures of Hayley Jane last night.

Dr. Sketchy September: Hayley Jane!

We had a really good session tonight with an amazing new model - a real natural - and a few folks who were either new or who I haven't seen in a while. It looked to me like there were a lot of great drawings being made, and I hope they'll get sent my way. Until then, here are a few of my own (yeah, I actually did some drawing this time!). Plus - birthday cake! (It's Hayley Jane's b'day on Saturday.)


Dragged the ol' cow skull again:

One more post from the 3rd anniversary

Before I post anything about tonight's session, I wanted to share these images from the 3rd birthday party at Scarab Club. If you were there, you might remember seeing Harriet Berg, the 84-year-old who borrowed my sketchbook and a Sharpie and joined in the sketching (I waived her $5 fee...). Harriet's a dancer, and her husband, who died earlier this year, was one of my wife's art teachers in high school, a sculptor and a docent at the art institute. Both of them are long-time fixtures in the Detroit area arts community and I was extremely happy she came to the August session. Here are a few of her drawings, two of Demonique in her Cleopatra costume and one of the club's garden gate.

Dr. Sketchy September: THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 6-9pm

Hi all,

Back to Sketchy HQ at the Belmont this month, with a new model: singer, actress, dancer costume designer (she did the outfits for the recent burlesque version of "Alice in Wonderland") and all-around amazing gal Hayley Jane Nickerson!

Check her out on MySpace, YouTube, and in the Metro Times (photo above by MT's Doug Coombe)...

...and of course at the Belmont next Thursday, where she promises to bring a case full of costumes for your sketching pleasure!

PLEASE NOTE the slightly earlier-than-usual time - 6-9pm - to accommodate the bands playing later in the night.

See you there!
Sean

Dr Sketchy @ People's Art Festival SUNDAY AUG. 30 4-6PM!

Hey all,

Right on the heels of the birthday bash last week comes an invite to join the folks at Motorcityblog at the People's Art Festival in Detroit for some more burlesque sketching fun THIS SUNDAY!

Now, you shouldn't need Dr Sketchy to entice you to go to the Festival, located at the Russell Industrial complex off of I-75, just south of Hamtramck. It's a sprawling, amazing gathering of artists, musicians and vendors from all over town that you do not want to miss. Check out the web site for more info:

peoplesartsfestival.com

We'll be meeting around 4pm at one of the Motorcityblog booths to do some drawing and spread the word about Dr. Sketchy. The festival ends at 6pm Sunday, so be sure to get there before then! In fact, come early and tour the grounds, you;ll be sure to find something you'll enjoy (and be sure to stop by the Hatch Hamtramck Art Collective table to pick up Dr Sketchy t-shirts and lots of other artsy goodness!).

Hope to see you there!
Sean

Dr. Sketchy goes behind the Velvet Rope

Lots of great photos of last Thursday's event are up in the Metro Times' Velvet Rope section (thanks to Hellcat Kelly for coming out to shoot!)

More from the birthday bash

Sketches from Britt Martin:





John Nagridge:

and Jim Anderson. (more at the link!)

Motorcityblog views Sketchy

There's a fantastic Dr. Sketchy slide show of photos by Brett Lawrence over on the Motorcityblog, be sure to check it out! MCB has been good about posting info on Sketchy in the past, so a belated thanks to them as well.

The shocking pink Dr. Sketchy cocktail makes a few appearances in that slide show (mainly in my hand), so this is a good time to drop the recipe for the thing, concocted for us by Scarab Club bartender Steven Ellis:

1/2 part Absente
1/2 part Tequila Sauza
orange juice
splash of grenadine
...all shaken over ice

And if you liked the vegan cupcakes the recipe for them (minus the pastry pasties!) is here.

Happy Birthday to us!

Wow! If the 3rd Birthday Bash at the Scarab Club wasn't the best Sketchy session ever 'round these parts it was certainly up there. Someone counted about 50 people sketching or at least hanging out as Demonique posed in her Cleopatra costume, and Lily LaRue had everyone riveted when she took to the gallery floor to do her fan dance. Everything from the club to the cupcakes to the cocktails looked like a huge hit from where I was standing. See for yourself (thanks to Agnes for the photos!)






Oh, and check out this video from sketcher Chip, that'll give an idea of how blustery it was in the garden.

Many thanks again to everyone who came, to everyone at the Scarab Club for accommodating us and of course as always to our wonderful models. If you were there and did sketches please send them my way for the blog!