Absolution: Pierce, Tattoo, Other...

We thought it was high time we shared the love that we have for one of our sponsors in particular who have helped us out and humoured Tawdry since the inception of Dr. Sketchy's Chch. 

Absolution Tattoo and Body Piercing spoil our art monkeys with a voucher toward permanent inky joy or delicious body modification every sketchy session. Absolution has become somewhat of an tattoo and body mod institution in Christchurch over the years; their bright and inviting space offering a wide range of services with impeccable hygiene standards. Formerly based on Manchester St, in 'post-quake-noveau-Chch' the shop has relocated to Nancy Ave in Mairehau.

 The new haunt of the Nancy Boys (and Fi)

45 Nancy Ave, in case you get lost.

 

 

Dead Set: Dead Sexy Threads

Sharing the new location is the boutique clothing store Dead Set. Make sure to browse through the sweet threads while awaiting/organising your delicious pain session!

If it's an inking you're after; this is the place to go for well thought out, professional work - you won't find naff, over-thumbed books of clip-art-esque tattoos here!  Naith and Fiona are on hand to design and lovingly incise custom tattoos into your skin - accompanied by good humoured and/or witty banter. 

 Naith hard at work making someone permanently more beautiful and art-filled.

Hours and hours of Fiona's work adorns our own paparazzi spectacular - Paige Turner.

The studio also caters to all your usual (and unusual) piercing needs. With a list of body modifications that some might need a physiological dictionary for and an even more riveting list of 'other' options - from scarification and branding to sub dermal implants. Absolution is home to Skindependent; a human body suspension group that have been hosting suspensions, performing and otherwise educating Christchurch to the practice for a few years.

 Eden and James from Skindependent performed and modelled at our Gorelesque Dr. Sketchy's last year. 

 This year, Tawdry went up on hooks and came down after swinging around exuberantly, happily recommending getting hooked to anyone that will listen.

Absolution also periodically hosts guest artists from around the globe - look out especially for Howie's return and all the implanty, cartilage-y adventures he's sure to wreak upon those willing...

If you're interested in finding out more about our spunkiest sponsors, check out their website, find them on facebook or, if you're local, pop into the shop and say hello!

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!

Sports Draw

Don your uniform, do your stretches, and join us for the champion of all drawing classes. Featured events include drinking, drawing, warming up, and winning gold. Heavy medal!

Mr. Henry Flower, the Stamen with Stamina, will demonstrate his athletic prowess, and pose for your racy sketches.

Hop, skip and jump to the Canterbury Bowling Club for this evening meet. Bring your drawing gear and p.e. kit. Or a signed excuse note from a parent or guardian.

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

7.30pm, Thursday 15 September.

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.

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

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.

Mysteries of Prehistory

Prepare to journey through time with a drawing class like no other - drinking, drawing, theories and revelations.

This session's models, Dr. Arthur Wainwright and our own Tawdry Trainwreck, are going to satisfy your cavings. Get your rocks off!

Mutate your way to the Canterbury Bowling Club to join us for a night of dinosaurs, cavemen, and grrrevolution. Don't forget your drawring necessities and a pterrifying or primordially saucy costume.

Our sponsors make us homo erectus! Absolution, Gordon Harris, Madam Butterfly’s Vintage Style Boutique and international Dr. Sketchy's sponsor Baby Tattoo Books.

Thursday 4 August, 2011. Strictly no entry prior to 6.30pm, First pose at 7.30pm. R18.

Canterbury Bowling Club - 109 Salisbury Street, with entry via Gracefield Ave.
BYO drawing materials and sketchpads.
Tickets $13 plus booking fee from Cosmic Ticketing. Purchase online or from C4 Coffee, 278 Tuam Street.

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

Talk Nerdy To Me

It was a night of drinking, drawing, dorks and dweebs as Dr Sketchy's once again descended upon the local Bowling Club for a theme very close to our hearts – Talk Nerdy to Me.

Our stars for the evening were the delectable Princess Pi and Ernest Member; our hypothesis proved correct and they had us enthralled with their chemistry and hilarity on stage.

Lab. coats were in abundance and there was plenty of plaid as our art monkeys were welcomed by the nerdilicious Rosie Reckless.

Bizarre love triangle.

A cute angle.

Tawdry offered both touch typing temptation and tripping hazards!

Princess Pi showed she had algorythm and removed her algebra!

Ernest's attempts to resist Pi's SUPERb nerdiness were futile.

Art monkeys sketched keenly.

Our audience designed covers for various text books that Ernest and Pi may have needed.

Ernest's bringin' Sixties back. Stylophones: Sexy

Full frontal nerdity!

Ernest played both keyboard and stylophone in order to find the courage to invite Princess Pi over for a seductive game of Boggle.

Ernest may have miscalculated the result of this social experiment...

Another night of succesful sketching and far too many geeky in-jokes left us all grinning as usual. A mega thanks to our wonderful photographers, Ryan Franicevic and Paige Turner, and of course our wonderful sponsors (you keep our drives hard): Absolution Tattoo and Body Piercing, Madame Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique and our international sponsor Baby Tattoo Books.

For further photos extrapolating this session, examine our Facebook album!