The Great Dolly Parton Look-Alike Contest

Good Golly, are you Miss Dolly?

Rack up points in the ‘2014 Great Dolly Parton Look-Alike Contest’ with your Nashville twang. We all know blondes have more fun, so Dr Sketchy’s is giving you the chance to don your own Dolly-Do. Wearing more rhinestones than you can shake your chest at, Little Miss Cinnamon will be defending her 2013 encrusted crown with a dose of crooning and swooning. So drag on a dress for a night in Dollywood!

This is a life drawing class like no other. Drinking, drawing and drawling.

Love Your Condom join us as a special guest sponsor for this event. Like LYC on Facebook: www.facebook.com/loveyourcondom

To our official sponsors: Absolution Pierce and Tattoo, Madam Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique, Gordon Harris Art Supplies, C1 Espresso and international sketchy sponsor Baby Tattoo Books, you know we’ll always love you.

Remember, tickets to this event are limited, so take one because you can. Just $18 plus booking fee, available at Cosmic stores (Re:Start Mall or The Palms) and online from Cosmic Ticketing. No door sales.

R18. Doors open 6.30pm, First pose at 7.30pm. Be early for the best seats!
Third Door Down, Unit 7, Lincoln Lane, Addington, Christchurch.
Bring your own drawing materials.

Wrestle Mania!

 

Let's get ready to rumble!

Dr. Sketchy's Christchurch presents Wrestle Mania; a night of drinking, drawing and burlesque-flavoured brawling. Pin ups, pinned down! Things are bound to get hot and heavyweight in this epic encounter between Tawdry 'The Bushwhacker' Trainwreck and Brigitte 'The Undie-Taker' de Brief.

Amateur wrestlers, professional posers: our muses will knock your socks off!

Flex your drawing muscles and get a table ring-side to sketch this saucy scrap. BYO drawing supplies and don't forget your mouthguard. MC Rosie Reckless will be refereeing your attire and also your smack talk.

We'd like to advise there is no photography at this event - capture the clash of our contenders using drawing only.

Our sponsors are champions! Absolution Pierce and Tattoo, Madam Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique, Gordon Harris Art Supplies and international sketchy sponsor Baby Tattoo Books.

R18. Strictly no entry prior to 6.30pm, First pose at 7.30pm. Be early for the best seats! Canterbury Bowling Club - 109 Salisbury Street, with entry via Gracefield Ave. Tickets $13 plus booking fee. Available online via Cosmic Ticketing and in-store at Cosmic in Cashel Mall.

Monster Mash

 Ladies and Gentlemen, Bogeymen and Ghouls!

The time has come to caper out of your crypts and get to boogying. We're doing the Mash, doing the Monster Mash.… It'll be a graveyard smash!

This is a crash corpse in life drawing, with drinking, diabolical games and dames. Bring your own drawing implements and stake your claim for some rewarding treats (or tricks?). Summon your inner monster and join our menagerie of beasts and creepy crawlies.

She's sexy, spooky, and oh, so kooky! Our leading lady, The Purple Rose, joins us from Wellington to show us a bloody good time. She'll send shivers down your spine, and kick-start any flagging pulses.

Our sponsors give us goosebumps (and sweet prizes)! Absolution Pierce and Tattoo, Madam Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique, Gordon Harris Art Supplies and international sketchy sponsor Baby Tattoo Books.

We'll be at our usual haunt - the Canterbury Bowling Club on Salisbury Street. Entry from 6.30pm, first pose at 7.30pm. Be early for the best seats!

Canterbury Bowling Club - 109 Salisbury Street, with entry via Gracefield Ave.
Tickets $13 plus booking fee. Available online via Cosmic Ticketing and in-store at Cosmic in Cashel Mall.
R18.

We would like to advise there is no photography at this event.  Document our models with drawing only.

Second Birthday Burlesque Bash

June marked the second anniversary of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School in Christchurch. It's been a stupendous couple of years filled with breathtaking burlesque, scintillating sketching and large quantities of bawdy jokes, booze and boobs. Our birthday session was one big Party Party Party!

To get the party started and celebrate in style, crowd favourite and sketchy siren Gracie Hart paid us a special visit from the windy shores of Wellington.

 Our stage set as well as the model looked good enough to eat!

You can have our cake and sketch it too! (But don't touch the shoes)

Best. Present. Ever.

 The crowd was a festive one - donning glad rags, party hats and sketching up a storm!

For her first performance, Gracie sang a sultry number that got all our hearts thumping.

Gracie Hart: sugar and spice and all kinds of nice!

One of our embellishment challenges was to draw a portrait of your dream date on a balloon. Our prize winner got a bit more than he bargained for...

To prevent any peckish art monkeys from getting their nibble on, the wonderful Princess Pi baked us a giant batch of cupcakes. They went down a treat at half-time!

Gracie spoilt our crowd further when the time came for her second performance. Glow sticks for everyone! Glitter! And glowing body paint! After the second party-licious performance, we had our first ever pose in the dark! We encouraged the audience to take pause and try to capture the essence of the glowing hand prints Gracie had left, er, behind...

The sketchy girls and our rugged up art monkeys partied on at Smash Palace - where our old friends and hosts from Goodbye Blue Monday now ply beer and mulled wine from inside a bus! It was a great reunion of burlesque, bikes and a very ubiquitous can of whipped cream....

 

It's been a crazy, fabulous and rewarding couple of years. We owe many thanks to our loyal art monkeys, who have continued to give Tawdry an excuse to parade about in various states of undress, Rosie an outlet for her amazing drinking and design skills, and a multitude of performers a gig to showcase their talents and er, assets on a regular basis.

We'd also like to thank our brilliant sponsors for their ongoing support - they keep us inspired, excited and supplied with awesome prizes for every session. Show them some love and if you happen to pop on into their shops, let them know the Sketchy Girls sent you (with love) - Absolution Tattoo and Body Piercing, Madame Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique, Gordon Harris Art Supplies and international sponsor Baby Tattoo Books.

Our sketchy shenanigans couldn't run like they do without the aid of minions, photographers, friends and cohorts - we'd like to acknowledge the many people who help Rosie and Tawdry each and every session!

Party Party Party!

It's been two stupendous years since Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School launched in Christchurch. So we're going to celebrate with a birthday party like no other! With fun, frivolity and fine ass females.

The legendary Gracie Hart is gonna get the party started. She'll take to the sketchy stage to pose and perform with such sass we'll be breathless.

We'll spoil our art monkeys with presents and prizes. So get your tickets quick, and we'll see you at the Canterbury Bowling club in your glad rags.

At the end of the drawing antics the sketchy girls invite you to join them at Smash Palace. It's the Party Party Party After Party!

Our sponsors have gifted us with their support for two years. So show some love to Absolution Pierce and Tattoo, Madam Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique, Gordon Harris Art Supplies and international sketchy sponsor Baby Tattoo Books.

R18. Strictly no entry prior to 6.30pm, First pose at 7.30pm. Be early for the best seats.
Canterbury Bowling Club - 109 Salisbury Street, with entry via Gracefield Ave.
BYO drawing materials and sketchpads.
Tickets $13 plus booking fee. Available online via Cosmic Ticketing and in-store at Cosmic in Cashel Mall.

We would like to advise there is no photography at this event.
Document our models with drawing only.

Jailhouse Jezebel

Our latest sketchy escapade was all about unsavoury sorts. Bad girl Jesika Rabid made her sketchy debut as our debauched delinquent muse and nicked off with our hearts in the process.

Our art monkeys were all booked upon entry - mug shots captured the usual suspects, as well as some fresh recruits! Rosie Reckless was on hand to play warden to our convicts; who were on their baddest behaviour.

 Our newest trouble maker was thrown behind bars, but you can't cage her hotness!

We were all guilty of swooning when Jesika Rabid was led out in chains.

This jailhouse jezebel has killer curves. Warden Rosie Reckless is keeping an eye out for any trouble-makers.

 Guilty until they can illustrate their innocence; many of our art monkey's have spent plenty of time (drinking) behind bars.

Remorseless as ever; Tawdry Trainwreck is a repeat offender.

 Everyone had a riot on the night.

 We sketchy girls are not above toilet humour...

Bang bang... this noiresque beauty had us captivated!

 It's gotta be a crime to look this good.

 The crew from Absolution came along to perform sweet inky antics on Jesika. Our audience documented the process with their own pointy implements.

 Alongside the temporary tattoos gracing our model, the crew drew up some sweet flash art transfers to make our crims and crooks feel more (i)legitimate. 

  So long and shanks for all the flesh! Jesika got the better of Warden Rosie in our final pose!

It was a great night had by all, with Jesika Rabid adding to the argument that that bad girls do it better. Meanwhile, Tawdry's still awaiting her conjugal visit from the peenal system in the sweet cell made especially for the show by local props maker and special effects genius - Dextar FX.

Our sponsors are our co-conspirators and do justice to every sketchy event! Show them your support and stop on by - Absolution Tattoo and Body Piercing, Madame Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique and Baby Tattoo Books.

To see more of our shady carrying ons from this session, visit our album on facebook.

Madonna of the Bowling Green

We got into the groove of 2012 with an ode to the queen of pop and (at times, somewhat sketchy) style icon: Madonna. Desperately Sketching Susan had our art monkeys scrabbling for tickets, resulting in a packed house to welcome our diva-licious demi-goddess - Willow Noir. Willow made a special trip down from the windy shores of Wellington to model and perform for us and we were utterly stoked to have her!

 The Madonna of the Bowling Green: Willow Noir

Thrice as nice! Lady Madonnas: The light side, the dark side and the holy-moly-beejeezus-you'll-take-someone's-eye-out-with-those-cone-boobs-of-glory side! (In other news: Rosie's Reckless lazer-tits trend continues)

Strike a pose! 

Willow's first performance, touched us (for the very first time) as she sashayed around the room and shimmied into something a little more... sketchable.

Many a Chch art monkey became enamoured of our model. She had us wrapped around her lace-gloved finger!

Willow answered our prayers as a stunning model and cheeky performer!

Like an Icon, Willow rocked a costume change and provided plenty of thrust and grind in her second performance.

For more information on Willow Noir - glamorous pin up model, entertainer and all round good time girl - find her on facebook.

Our resident paparrazi-perv, Paige Turner and the winner of our embellishment drawing competition. We challenged our art monkeys to illustrate the new scandal being splashed across gossip-rags about Madonna (We only wish it were true!)

Best. Suprise. Boobie prize. Ever.

Facebook says no to nipples. We choose to say "YES PLEASE! Let glorious nipples reign supreme; this ain't the Superbowl!"

Our material girl musing.

It's great to be back and in the flow of sketchy shenanigans once more! For more photos and a update from the Chch Sketchy girls, find us on facebook.

We thank our lucky stars for our sponsors - Absolution Tattoo and Body Piercing, Madam Butterfly's Vinstage Style Boutique and international sponsor Baby Tattoo Books!

Simmering Summer Debut

For us antipodeans; December is a month held dear for reasons far beyond gift exchanging, tinsel and Christmas trees. It heralds our long awaited summer! Hemlines rise, flesh is bared (sans-goosebumps) and beer becomes even MORE palatable.

To usher in the new season (and lead by exmaple) Honey Van Hooch shon on our stage. She was a luscious, langorous and golden muse for our art monkeys to sketch rhapsodically. With a tipsy nod to some particular artistic forebears, Honey sashayed in summer with a bohemian feel - all curves, swish and style.

Tawdry, turban askew, maintained the essential levels of libertinism...

Honey Van Hooch's burlesque debut was a knock-out *swoon!*

Sultry and flirtatious, Honey serenaded us with her rendition of Kiss Me.

Laid back... we just need some gin and juice. Or is it absinthe and chianti?

Paige turner - paparrazzi and prize-picture-picker! The winner was a lucky recipitent of a Baby Tattoo book! Rosie Reckless played relatively-respeonsible and hosted the nights proceedings - hostess with the most-ess!

Our summer lovin' group pose. No bohemian event is complete without a little saucy sift-sharing, surely?

Tawdry wraps her tongue around suggestive syllables in an attempt to procure some Hoochy. Honey is titillated, but not so easily persuaded.

For her second performance, Honey removed some layers - elevating the temperature of the room to hot hot hot!

Honey Van Hooch - what a debut!

Honey can be our golden girl, anytime!

Too Much(a) art geekery?

With assets like these, why would one ever wear clothes?!

 Our final session of the year finished us us all well warmed up and gasping for more Hoochy hawtness. Stay tuned to see more of this bombshell in the future!

We'll be taking a break over the silly season; but the crew will be back and rearing to go with more sketchy shenanigans for 2012. The Sketchy girls of Christchurch would like to extend an enormous thankyou to our art monkeys for dressing up, showing up, supporting us and our array of  beautiful performers and being generally awesome. You've helped justify Tawdry's ridiculous costume collection, Rosie's deviant design work  and Paige's predilection for photographs of gorgeous bottoms for yet another year!

We'd like to thank our wonderful sponsors for keeping us rolling in brilliant prizes:

Absolution Tattoo and Body Piercing:  for delicious ink and shiny sharp things to adorn ourselves with.
Madame Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique: keep us and our art monkeys sassy and sexy in gorgeous vintage clothing.
Gordon Harris Art Supplies: ensure we keep on sketching in multudinous mediums (not just perving).

And last but certainly not least - our international sponsor: Baby Tattoo Books, who supply us with stunning publications that need to be pried out of our grabby hands at each event.