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!

Desperately Sketching Susan

Strike a pose!


In our first session of the year, we are paying homage to the material girl herself. Blonde ambition brings this superstar all the way from Wellington to grace the sketchy stage. Our 'Susan' is the glamorous pin-up, Willow Noir, and she's set to strike (several) poses and melt hearts.


This is a life drawing class like no other. Drinking! Drawing! Divas!


It doesn't matter if you're drawing for the very first time, or know your drawing tools intimately. All you need is your own imagination (perhaps some drawing materials and a little booze) and you'll be sketching poses like there's nothing to it. Some of our lucky (art) stars will even win prizes!


Get ready to express yourself! Bring pencils, paper, ink and pens to the bar; get into the groove and dress the part of an 80's icon or incarnation of Madonna.


Our sponsors answer our prayers! Absolution, Gordon Harris, Madam Butterfly’s Vintage Style Boutique and international Dr. Sketchy's sponsor Baby Tattoo Books.


We advise that there is no photography at this event. Capture our model with drawing only, or you'll be in trouble, deep!


7.30pm Thursday 16 February 2012.
R18. 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 next week from the Cosmic Corner store in container city.

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.

Bohemian Summer

Book a seat on this flight of fancy, and experience first class life drawing in Bohemian style. Drinking, drawing and daydreaming will be on the palette this summer eve'.

The statuesque Honey Van Hooch will tempt and enchant you, sharing her considerable talents for your sketching pleasure.

Imagine you are spending a summer creating art at the grand, but charming, estate of a dear, dear friend. Your days are spent painting, drawing and lounging under trees, and drunken nights are spent playing scandalous parlour games. Dress as the eccentric artiste that we know is inside you.

Your luggage should contain all the drawing supplies you will need when your creative juices flow like cool cider. We very much look forward to wandering through this night of whimsy with you.

We are positively giddy about being hosted by the Canterbury Bowling Club, and could not be more delighted to be held in esteem by our beloved sponsors: Madam Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique, Absolution, Gordon Harris and Baby Tattoo.

Kiss kiss.

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Thursday 15 December 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. 
We would like to advise there is no photography at this event. Document our models with drawing only.

Halloween spectacular with Ruby Ruin

October is one of our favourite times of the year - when the sun starts to shine and all the skeletons come dancing out of the closet for halloween hijinks. We welcomed back to our stage the wonderful Ruby Ruin our for Dia De Los Muertos themed sketching session. The stage was set with swathes of flowers - not just crepe ones! Set against a riot of colour and lights, an enshrined Ruby held sway over our art monkeys as they sketched her avidly.

Tawdry and Rosie were on the door - guiding our (misguided) art monkeys into the depths of drawing depravity once again!

  

Rosie Reckless was on hand to ensure monkey business ran jauntily.

MC Hells Belle was at the helm, ensuring there was plenty of pun and games to be had while Tawdry and Rosie kept up their tequila tolerance.

Our gore-geous model Ruby Ruin. she first graced our stage with her debut burlesque performance at our Punk Set session last year. We welcomed her back with muchos enthusiasm.

Ruby has become quite the local burlesque and tattoo icon. For more information and updates of her modelling, tattoo suit progress and general adventures - visit her website at www.rubyruin.com or find her on facebook.

A bit of gender-bending and (indecent) proposals made Tawdry's night
 

Ruby's first performance had us all reaching for a cooling refreshment! Here's to drinking, drawing, death and dames!

Ruby Ruin: hotter than a jalapeno and thrice as nice, as she can-cans across the stage.

This session, we held our first colouring in competition! The prize was the stunning original poster illustration by local artist, Shannon Williamson.
 

"Alas poor pedro"
 

For her second performance, Ruby captivated us with a fan dance.
 

Our best dressed was a tough decision this month, with a human sized taco (taco grande!) competing with delicately paint-faced ghouls and boys, all mesmerized by Ruby's risque poses.

 

Ruby Ruin, spoiling us with her presence and performances!

All in all it was a theatrical, boozy and wonderful night for all. For more documentation by our ever-present and fabulous paparazzi Paige Turner, stalk us on facebook. 

As usual, without the support of our amazing sponsors, we'd be pretty deadbeat. A hearty thanks to Absolution Tattoo and Body Piercing, Madame Butterfly's Vintage Style Boutique, Gordon Harris Art Supplies and Baby Tattoo Books.

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.