DATE NIGHT JITTERS

Harlow Lestrange stars in DATE NIGHT JITTERS.

Thursday 24 February at Goodbye Blue Monday. First Pose 7.30pm.

Harlow's getting ready for a hot first date! But before such a highly anticipated night, she's got to get herself looking her best. She's got butterflies in her stomach, curlers in her hair, and a fresh coat of polish on her nails. Come along and sketch the primping, preening and preparation.

She'll umm and ahh over outfits and shake off those nerves with a performance or two.

As for you? We recommend you come dressed to impress! Don your most striking "date attire" – best dressed suitors in the audience could win prizes… and our hearts.

Dr. Sketchy's is a life drawing class like no other - drinking, drawing and dames!

Our sponsors are our sweethearts: Absolution Tattoo & Body Piercing, Madam Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique, The Flying Burrito Brothers along with international Dr. Sketchy's sponsor Baby Tattoo books.

BYO drawing materials and sketchpads.
Tickets $10 plus booking fee. On sale from Thursday 17 February from Cosmic Corner High Street or online via Cosmic Ticketing.

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

Thanks to Rosie Reckless for this month's poster artwork.

Dr. Sketchy's February: A Day at the Seaside

A sandy seaside set set the scene for our seaside themed sketchy's in February (say that 6x fast!). We celebrated some summer lovin' by welcoming back the glorious Gracie Hart.

Sunsmart and sizzling; she shone on stage.

Our beach bombshell spots some art monkeys ahoy!

Our guest model from the far north land of Para. Roy Buoy adored Gracie from every angle.

Gracie Hart, the seaside siren who stole ours.

Our art monkeys outdid themselves this time – all sorts of naughty-cal attire surfaced!

A surprise appearance by Pammy Andieson kept Baywatch fans happy...

Pammy was pumped to pose with Gracie. Her potruding assets proving to be quite a palmful...

Wardrobe malfunctions soon put an end to any stage stealing attempts!

Breast *cough* we mean BEST dressed was awarded based on Gracie's favourite swimming style. No surprises that a cheeky breaststroke won hoots n hollers from the audience... and the coveted voucher for Madame Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique.

Gracie tantaslises us all as she slip slop slaps into something more... sketchable...

Dreamy!

Parasol twirling perfection.

This may not be the most efficient way of wearing sunscreen... but the abstract expressionist references combined with sunsmart sentiments had our hearts aflutter!

It was an action packed night of sketchy carousing. Roy Buoy's staying power left us all a bit deflated... but he was a bit of an airhead anyway!

A huge thanks, as always to our sponsors - Absolution Tattoo and Body Piercing, Madam Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique, The Flying Burrito Brothers and Baby Tattoo Books.

For further seaside frolicking photos, head to our Facebook album!

A Day at the Seaside

THIS THURSDAY 3 FEBRUARY AT GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY.
LIMITED TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE FROM COSMIC CORNER.

DR. SKETCHY'S ANTI-ART SCHOOL: A DAY AT THE SEASIDE

MC Hells Belle will host our seaside themed session and she's ready to slip, slop, slap! We're delighted to have the sizzling hot Gracie Hart modeling for us after recently winning the "Christchurch's Got Tassles" burlesque competition. She'll splash about and may even give you a wave. She shell be joined by the nauty-cal Roy Buoy.

Our sponsors are our lifesavers: Absolution Tattoo & Body Piercing, Madam Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique and The Flying Burrito Brothers. We also welcome international Dr. Sketchy's sponsor Baby Tattoo books. So many tan-talising prizes for our faithful art monkeys to win!!

Thursday 3 February at Goodbye Blue Monday.
Doors 6.30pm, First pose 7.30pm.
BYO drawing materials and sketchpads.
Tickets $10 plus booking fee. Tickets from Cosmic Corner High Street or online via Cosmic Ticketing.

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

Thanks to Gussie Fenton for the use of her artwork on this month's poster. Layout and design by Rosie Reckless.

Dr Sketchy November: Heavy Petting

For our November session we indulged in a spot of purr-lesque. Mia Sophia was our divine feline and graced the stage at Goodbye Blue Monday for a night of purrs, furs and kitty mischief.

This was a theme made for our cat-crazy crew and MC Hell's Belle sunk her claws right into it. Rosie; our cheeky canine caused general mischief and mayhem throughout the night (don't fall for her puppy dog eyes!).

Our dedicated photographer, Paige Turner got some paparazi action this time around.

Tawdry made herself comfortable on our host, Mr. Moore's lap. We'd make great pets, no?

Our glamourpuss, Mia Sophia, kicked of the night with a song in French and fur.

Our audience accesorised suitably with ears and tails and plenty of perk. Here are a striking pair of art monkeys and resident anthropologists - Niki on the left is writing a thesis on the movement that is Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, can you get any more dedicated?

Mia Sophia and Tawdry Trainwreck primped and posing.

Cat fight!

This was followed by various cavorting and kitteh antics, and a well earned cat nap.

With the aid of a little whiskery treat Mia performed quite the feat...

Three hoop hooplaah had our audience enthralled.

It's all fun and games till the booze runs out....

One of our favourite illustrations of the evening - the challenge? Draw Mia as your favourite kitty character.

Mia Sophia

A little yarn-bondage to tie the evening up?

The cat's out of the box!

For more photos of our final session for the year, visit us on the official Dr Sketchy.com page or check out our albums on facebook.

Many thanks to our wonderful sponsors, who we couldn't have done this without - the Flying Burrito Brothers, Absolution Tattoo and Body Piercing and Madame Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique.

Also a huge thanks to our gracious hosts, Goodbye Blue Monday, our dedicated photographers Paige Turner and Ryan Franicevic and all our brilliant helpers throughout the year!
We hope Santa-Claws brings you all you want for xmas and more!

So you wanna be a Dr. Sketchy's model?

Got a trick or talent you just have to share?

Enjoy parading round in your underwear?

Do you have an insane costume that needs airing?

Burlesque artist, fetish model, little person, strong man or woman, contortionist, drag queen or any other fabulous deviation from the norm - we want to hear from you.

At Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School, we are fortunate enough that we have many beautiful people clamouring to model for us. And indeed, why shouldn't they? Modelling and performing for Dr Sketchy's is a lot of fun, offers a fantastic platform for raising your profile and is very different from most modelling gigs about the town. It's also paid. We adore our models and enjoy promoting them in further work, in Christchurch and further afield.

However, we do require dedication, passion and skill from our models. As this is a life drawing AND burlesque event, our models usually double as performers. They choreograph two performances, supply their own music as well as outlandish and stunning costumes and makeup. They meet with the Sketchy girls on several occasions before the event to plot, plan and bond (usually over some form of tipple). Life modelling and/or performance experience is preferred.

If you are interested in modelling for Dr Sketchy's, please email us with:

• your name (and stage name)
• contact details
• any modelling/performing experience you have
• details of your talents and what you can do
• what you can offer props/costumes/equipment
• some photos or video of past performances/modelling
• and, of course, a little about yourself and your interests.

Photo copyright Dr. Sketchy, NYC

Find out more about Dr. Sketchy's here.

Gorey, Gruesome & Gorgeous

WARNING: The evidence of this night of blood-soaked burlesque and life drawing is not for the faint of heart. The images are graphic, so proceed with caution... and excitement!

October - what month could be more apt for a gore theme. The Christchurch Sketchy Girls embraced their dark demented side and got their gore on, a perfect start to Halloween weekend. Goodbye Blue Monday was once again host to a full house of eager art monkeys for our fifth session.

Our models this month were a gruesome twosome – the wonderful Gracie Hart (who previously starred in July's retro sci-fi night), and our very own headmistress Tawdry Trainwreck.

Deputy Reckless ensured the booze was flowing, mostly down her own throat, to loosen up any art monkeys with inhibitions about what was in store. We had warned everyone this night was not for the faint of heart!

MC Hells Belle was our hostess for this eve. She wore her heart on her bosom, literally.

The atmosphere was more mysterious and intimate than ever - in our secret lab the walls were lined with plastic and the windows were all blocked, ensuring prying eyes did not catch a glimpse of this insanity!

Tawdry embraced her mad scientist role as she brought her creation to life. Both adoringly and maniacally, sniffing the embalming fluid and snipping away bandages. She even had a mid-operation snack on some juicy gummy guts.

Gracie Hart.

We even had boylesque… of sorts. Skindependent joined us for a very special performance. Eden pierced his own neck in the back room, before carrying out a live on-stage throat piercing.

The boys then posed tied together with tension ropes. This was definitely not for the squeamish. Some people had to walk away, while others moved closer for gorey perving pleasure.

Our girls were pleased with their catches of the night.

In their second performance things got messy. Gracie Hart starting to tear off her bandages.

And then Tawdry got involved … and so did some blood.

The performance was breathtaking and our girls were left bloody gorgeous after a saucy make-out session.

In true gore style a chainsaw was there to rev up the evening and provide a spectacular final pose of the night.

Tawdry Trainwreck loved her mad scientist tools. We loved her awesome mangled boobs - torn apart by the make up artist at Blood Soaked Candy.

Please view our albums on DrSketchy.com and Facebook to see the uncensored evidence of this, our most raunchy and depraved session yet.

Thanks to Paige Turner for the Photos. Cecil Macabre for writing a review and filming the performances (video coming shortly). Blood Soaked Candy for amazing makeup. Skindependent for getting involved on-stage with a hot piercing and suspension performance.

And of course to our sponsors who let us get away with this madness - Absolution Tattoo and Piercing, Madam Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique and The Flying Burrito Brothers.

Bites and Pieces

Phew… what an epic halloween!

Just got a few wee bites to share with you all…

We hosted a truly wild session with our Gore night on Thursday. Check out what local blogger Cecil Macabre had to say about our session:

Advent of the New – Cecil Macabre

One of our stars was the beautiful Gracie Hart. She's now got a fanpage on facebook. Go on, become a fan and show her some love:

Gracie Hart Burlesque Facebook Fan Page

The Flying Burrito Brothers are always hooking us up for great prizes for our art monkeys. They're opening for lunches from Thursday. Daytime margaritas? Don't mind if we do!

The Flying Burrito Brothers Christchurch on Facebook

We're busy writing blogs and uploading photos of our last session – we'll share all the gorey details soon.