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!

Date Night Jitters set our hearts aflutter

It was a very happy reunion between the Sketchy Girls and Art Monkeys of Christchurch. We'd been on hold for a few months – plotting, planning and venue hunting in our quakey ol' town.

We went ahead with the much anticipated Dr. Sketchy's debut of Harlow Lestrange in 'Date Night Jitters'. Our new hosts for the evening were the fabulous and hospitable folk at the Canterbury Bowling Club.

The mesmerising Harlow Lestrange starred in our voyeuristic take on date night primping and preening.

Her sultry good looks set our hearts a-throbbing.


Our audience settled right into our new (if unorthodox) haunt. The Canterbury Bowling Club president didn't quite know what to expect, but soon joined the ranks of Dr. Sketchy fans!

We invited everyone to come dressed to impress with their most striking date night attire.

And what a turn out! Seductive boudoir minxes, several well suited suitors, a BDSM mistress and one irresistibly adorable attendee in a dinosaur onesie. Our Art Monkeys all vied for the best dressed award.

Harlow's first performance for the evening – what's a girl to wear?!

Luscious locks at the ready and pout perfected. Harlow sat back and waited for her dream date to make an entrance.

Under dressed? Never.

Harlow shook off some nerves with an energetic and enthralling hoop performance!

Hooplah ooh la laa!

A well earned beer completes this picture – drinking, drawing and dames!

Our best dressed suitor was the lucky recipient of a voucher from Absolution Tattoo and Body piercing... as well as some special treatment from Harlow!

Some 'post-it'-modern art that we feel illustrates Sketchy antics rather well!


It was a fabulous night of debauchery much-missed by the Christchurch Sketchy Girls, we are incredibly happy to be back in operation. For more photos of this session, perv on our facebook album!

We would like to thank our new-found hosts at the Canterbury Bowling Club and, as ever, our sweet-heart sponsors – Absolution Tattoo and Body Piercing, Madame Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique and our international sponsor Baby Tattoo Books.

Date Night Jitters - New Date, New Venue!

THE SKETCHY GIRLS ARE BACK AFTER ALL THAT EARTHQUAKE MAYHEM!

WE'RE GOING AHEAD WITH "DATE NIGHT JITTERS" WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED IN FEBRUARY BUT SADLY POSTPONED. PLEASE NOTE WE'VE GOT A NEW LOCATION THIS MONTH: THE CANTERBURY BOWLING CLUB.

Harlow Lestrange stars in DATE NIGHT JITTERS.

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!

We're extremely sad to farewell our beloved venue Goodbye Blue Monday. For this month's event we invite you along to the Canterbury Bowling Club. Show them your support for hosting us by indulging in some cheap jugs… and buying some beer. ;)

Our sponsors are our sweethearts! Here's a bit of an update:

Absolution Tattoo & Body Piercing – OPEN in the 'burbs at 45 Nancy Ave, Mairehau.

Madam Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique – OPEN in the same sweet spot at 330 Stanmore Road.

The Flying Burrito Brothers – Closed 'til the central city cordon lifts - FBB's building is structurally all ok so we just have to be patient for our tasty burrito and tequila fix.

We also thank international Dr. Sketchy's sponsor Baby Tattoo Books, who provide art monkeys with sweet prizes all around the world.

Thursday 12 May. Doors from 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. (Slight price increase to cover venue hire costs)

Please note that currently we can only offer ONLINE TICKET SALES. Available via Cosmic Ticketing from Wednesday 27 April.

We would like to advise there is no photography at this event.

Document our models with drawing only.

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.