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.

Biker Babes on the Bus

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines… and join us for a very special Dr. Sketchy's session. It's a night of drinking and drawing, onboard the bus at Smash Palace.

Tawdry and Juju will be our models, muses and bad influences. It's 'Bike Night' at Smash Palace but these rebels are taking their tassels aboard the bus. Toot toot! There'll be plenty of cheek with these foxy floozies about!

They'll strut their stuff down the aisle of the bus, on top of the tables and in your face. Be prepared for a very different sketchy experience. You'll get to draw from many different angles but you may need to move around, perhaps to give up your seat for our biker babes.

For this Sketchy's, no pre-sale tickets are required, but please bring a suggested donation of $5 to fuel your local sketchy girls.

Sketching begins at 7pm. Bring your own art supplies, but this time keep them simple as we may move about. Inks and paints may be prone to spilling once we get rolling.

Our sponsors spin our wheels: Absolution Pierce and Tattoo, Madam Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique, Gordon Harris Art & Graphic Store, and international sketchy sponsor Baby Tattoo Books.

7pm, Thursday 25 April
Smash Palace
Corner Victoria and Bealey Ave
Christchurch, New Zealand

Farm Fresh!

Yeeeehawww! Beef up your drawings skills at our farm themed night of drinking, drawing and dames!

Mark this date in your country calendar. The wholesome beauty that is Sass Penders joins us for her sketchy debut. Admire and draw her prize winning calves. Mooooo-ooooo!

Rosie Reckless plays MC with her razor sharp wheat. She'll try keep the animal puns to a minimum as they're not funny in any neigh, sheep or farm.

Round up your friends and head to the Canterbury Bowling Club where the grass truly is greener. 

Our sponsors shear our love for free-range shenanigans. Absolution, Madam Butterfly’s Vintage Style Boutique and international Dr. Sketchy's sponsor Baby Tattoo Books. 

First Pose 7.30pm, Thursday 29 March, 2012.

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.

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.

El Dia De Los Muertos

Poster illustration by Shannon Williamson.

Hola amigos,

Get ready for a life drawing class like no other – drinking, drawing and dames. This session we're paying tribute to the ancient mexican celebration known as dia de los muertos, or day of the dead.

Our starring model, Ruby Ruin, is hotter than jalapenos! She'll illuminate the stage, and our souls, at the altar de muertos. It's bound to be a memorial occasion.

Bring your own drawing equipment, and feel free to dress up for this fiesta.

Our sponsors are muy buena onda! Absolution, Gordon Harris, Madam Butterfly’s Vintage Style Boutique and international Dr. Sketchy's sponsor Baby Tattoo Books.

R18. Strictly no entry prior to 6.30pm, First pose at 7.30pm.
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, with limited in-store tickets available from Cosmic Corner at The Palms.

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

Sports: Illustrated

For September we couldn't help but succumb to the Rugby World Cup fever pervading our antipodean nation. The bats, balls and boxes were out in force for our sports themed session starring Henry Flower - the stamen with stamina!

MC Hells Belle kept us all in line with a whistle round her neck and red cards at the ready. Our art monkeys came dressed in scrum-ptious sporting attire - from a kick boxing femme fatale to a sweetheart cheerleader and a Hufflepuff quiddich player; while our paparazzi Paige Turner moonlighted as Penis Williams.

Warm up sketches ensured no strains or sprains as Henry flexed into fine form for our audience.

The first performance certainly warmed us up! With a bend and flourish it was off with the track pants and on with the show!

Hardly hokey; this champion model was worth his weight in gold.

For our embellishment competition, we asked our art monkeys to add a tabloid title to a pose...

but Mr Flower had a posy of fans determinedly going up against any slander.

 

Not all brawn - our Henry's a thinker as well.

Rosie Reckless maintained half time tradition - toting a bag full of orange quarters to re-invigorate the team for more sketching on the sidelines.

There was even a spot of badminton; but the shuttlecock seems to have been censored!

Tawdry came in left of field and went in for a no holds barred pose.

 A special award was given out for the man sporting the Biggest Beard. Any year now that sport's going to be an Olympic one - you heard it here first!

Henry's aerobic endeavors in the second performance had our hearts aflutter!

 

Sumo-stache!

 

Henry got his game face on and flashed us a winning grin.

Our Stamen with Stamina was the man of the match, but sketching was the winner on the night. September's sporting shenanigans was made possible and infinitely more prize-laden by our glorious sponsors: Absolution Tattoo and Body Piercing, Madame Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique, Gordon Harris Art Supplies and our international sponsor Baby Tattoo Books.

For more photos documenting our exploits - have a look at our Facebook album!

Primordial Perving

For August's session, Dr. Arthur Wainwright and our own headmistress, Tawdry Trainwreck, took to the stage to unravel the gooey beginnings of our world and hatch a new theory of (d)evolution.

 Rosie Reckless was on hand, ready to order our art monkeys to DRAWWR! when the time arose.

 MC Hells Belle narrated the first half of the night from Dr. Wainwright's absurd thesis.

From tepid primordial soup, Dr. Wainwright emerged as Step One on the evolutionary scale: a bright eyed and yellow clad bacterium.

"..With nothing but primordial soup to eat and a three and a half billion year wait before any other creatures showed up on the  scene, bacteria were plagued by boredom."

Tawdry strutted her stuff as a sadistic clean-freak Ammonoid; the shelled level-up from bacteria.

"Ammonoids used up vast quantities of common household disinfectants, such as Dettol and spray and wipe;
literally wiping the bacteria off the face of the planet!"

High, dry and mighty; the Amphibian tended towards the smug side...

"Breaking free from its cytoplasmic membrane, the amphibian emerged from the miasmatic marsh
...and no longer had to be
perpetually soggy like its inferior and utterly aquatic cousin, the Ammonoid."

DRRRRAAWWWRRRRRRR! Tawdrisaurus-rex tottered back onto stage to terrorise and titilate.

"Unfortunately for the Amphibians; their Utopian paradise came to an abrupt and violent conclusion
when evolution brought forth the beast most savage and formidable of all. The Dinosaur!!!"

Warm, furry and loudly bleating Mammals came to the fore; putting an end to the monstrous tyranny of the Tawdrisaurus.

"Although powerful and fierce they were; dinosaurs had a fundamental flaw which would ultimately result in their extinction. Dinosaurs were clumsy and inherently uncoordinated... Mammals came on the scene in the form of the feral goat and..Although being much smaller and more benign than the formidable Dinosaur, when attacked they could quickly topple the clumsy beasts... due to their lack of coordination and stumpy arms." 

Arthur found himself somewhat peckish mid-pose.

Our model's antics were sketched into Art Monkey evolutionary history.

Tawdry: proving that the evolution of good manners happens over several aeons.

Arthur: demonstrating instinctual style and suaveness. 

 Primal expressions of interest from Tawdry Trainwreck as she discovers Arthur during her performance.

Arthur takes pose, I mean, pause to think about how far he has come in the world.

For our final pose, the audience suggested a well known Bloodhound Gang song. We suspect Tawdry watches a different channel...

This month we welcomed on board a new local sponsor, Gordon Harris Art Supplies! They came along to share a sketch and a tipple with us and even won the best dressed prize! We think they'll fit in nicely.

Our sponsors rock! Absolution Tattoo and Body Piercing, Madame Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique and Baby Tattoo Books.

IV: Bacchanalian Night of Revelry

After a month of disaster, ruin and hundreds (no, really hundreds!) of aftershocks we were all ready for some uplifting sketchy revelry. The luscious demigoddess Lucille L'amour played muse for our hedonistic art monkeys in attendance.


The wine was flowing (as well as the Bodgie Beer for those more hops-inclined) to encourage indulgent misbehavior and toga staining.

Ms. Rosie Reckless cavorts with a myseterious trader from The East, what wonders does she bring to the table?

MC Hells Belle channelled the gorgon medusa and transfixed the audience with her many snakey gazes.

The devine Lucille L'amour

Debauched noblewoman, entrancing vision and feast for our art monkeys eyes... Lucille L'amour performs her routine to Grecian lounge music.

Our sketchers were adorned with vine wreaths and bedazzling jewels. They were affectionately harassed by the mischievous satyr in attendance - Billy Goat Elliot. He spent the night capering about Goodbye Blue Monday, tooting on pan-pipes and spreading merriment.

Lucille managed to escape without getting her leg humped by that rascally Billy. No mean feat!

Headmistress Tawdry Trainwreck shocked us all by keeping most of her body clad this eve. She'll be sure to make up for that at next month's Dr. Sketchy's… because our next event will be all about the GORE.

We are very happy to announce that all of our sponsors survived le shakes and lent their support, as ever, to our night of sordid art practice. Many thanks to the Flying Burrito Brothers, Absolution Tattoo and Body Piercing and Madame Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique - we adore you! Another big thanks to our wonderful art monkeys for turning up - more in togas on a Thursday night in Crimeschurch than one would expect - and making this event brilliant.

For a more in depth catalogue of our Greco-Roman escapades, find us on the Dr Sketchy.com hub site or on facebook under Dr Sketchy's Christchurch. Until next time!

The Sketchy Girls of Christchurch