Local sketch - 1.27.2011

Odd energy this week. I almost forgot this session because I worked late.

However, I am learning to love gesture poses more than long poses. Especially when the model does break dancing moves. I wish I made it there earlier for more gestures...

Local Sketch - 1.22.2011

Sad news. No more morning draw and Dr. Sketchy's on Saturdays. Dr. Sketchy's had to move to Sundays to ease up the schedule for the burlesque troupe. This will be odd at first, but change is good.

Here are drawings of the gal that runs the local Dr. Sketchy's as she poses for the local sketch group :

Local Sketch & Dr.Sketchy's Anti Art School - 1.15.2011

I live for the Saturdays when I have 2 environments to draw in. I never know what kind of energy will happen in either place.

For the morning sketch, I overslept thanks to late night tweeting with a west coaster. I'm putting myself on punishment from now on because I hate missing gesture poses at the start of a session. I've been spoiled with the the additional gestures from Palette & Chisel that I have become restless with drawing a long pose. I drew the model about 4 times from different angles and still working out how my mind reads figures.

All sketches from the morning local sketch are here

Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School had a local burlesque performer, Jon Benet Butterbuns, as our model. I opted for a new 11 X 14 hardbound Strathmore drawing book and a Pentel Color Brush for most of the drawings. I felt the brush pen would loosen up my gestures a bit, and it did. Now, I need to figure out how to go a little darker with Sketchy theme contests.....tap into the naughty side.

Additional sketches are here

There is always an added bonus of the burlesque show following Dr. Sketchy's. Was a weird night. My purse drank more alcohol than I did due to the multiple drink spillage of others around me. There were a record number of pasty pops for the performers too...including one flaming pasty. The show theme was impersonations and the most obscure and confusing one was this bit from Tim & Eric's ... now that is some weird shit. Next time I will remember my camera...

Local Sketch - 1.8.2011

Palette & Chisel - New Years Model Marathon 1.1.11

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The weather played nice so I decided to drive down to Chicago to start the year off right. This time I brought one of my friends from my local art group along for the trip. Great experience, different atmosphere.

The model marathon at Palette and Chisel consists of artists drawing models from 7am - 7pm. Every 3 hours a new model poses.

Two drawing rooms: one had 25 minute poses the other had multiple gestures with the final hour being a long pose.

We made it there around noon and left around 6pm. It was a packed house so I remained in the 25 minute room. Wish I moved around a bit more to get more models drawn since each one gives a little something different. Perhaps there is always the next holiday model marathon...