From the figure drawing session at Studio Outpost. Our model, Marissa, added a fur top and full length gloves to her poses. I added the cigarette holder for dramatic effect!
Eight feet tall, acrylic on plywood. I’ll have the piece displayed
at my booth Saturday, September 17th for the East Atlanta Strut.
Look for me near Joe’s Coffee shop on Flat Shoals, just north of
Glenwood Avenue. http://eastatlantastrut.com/
I’ll have two collaborative pieces with Chris Warner at Alcove’s final show!
Whatever you’re doing this Saturday, December 11th, take a few minutes to stop by Alcove Gallery in Avondale between 7pm-midnight to check out the last show in this space. Chris is moving on and this one is sure to be a blast. Music by Tiger!Tiger! and lots of great art, not to mention food and sweet delicious beer. www.alcovearts.com
Drawings of classy naked people, that is… sold cheap! This Saturday, September 18th at the East Atlanta Strut festival. I’ll have a booth right next to Joe’s Coffee (in the lot in front of “Fluff and Em” Florist). I’ll be selling drawings from the past decade of figure classes I’ve held here in Atlanta:
Drawings of men, women and even babies!
Stop by, say howdy and pick up a cheap naked person!
-Joe
“Julie” from February’s 
Come on out tonight and enjoy some quality drawing time at the Clermont Lounge! 8-11pm, bring a friend! www.drsketchysatlanta.com
April 3rd, 2007- The first ever Boozer Doodle!
(Continued from previous post- click on “Events” to the right and scroll down to find Part One)… I called my friend Ashley Zeltzer, who had been doing promotional material for the Dames Aflame burlesque group. Ashley is crazy talented,
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Dione modeled in July ’09, eight months pregnant. She came back to pose in January with her beautiful baby Ruby!
A collaboration drawing from 11/04/09- Election Night!
- Shockaboom Election
The idea for Boozer Doodle started with an e-mail
from one of the artists at my weekly figure drawing class, James Burns. He sent me a link to the Dr. Sketchy’s website and suggested I try something like that with our class. I had been tinkering with some ideas, once even had the class form an “in the round” seating arrangement and do sequential drawings that I later compiled with fellow artist Raquel Asturias. I’ve lost her file but was able to put together a Flash file from the original scans.
About a dozen artists sat in a circle around the model. We all numbered our drawings in the sequence that we were seated, then each drew three sequential poses from model Ana Balka. I later scanned in all the drawings and re-sized and positioned them in Photoshop, then created the final transition movie in Flash:
This was a fun experiment, and I had been thinking about trying some different approaches with the models. One idea was to have them act out a blind script pose by pose, and reveal a story through the final drawings.
When I saw the Dr. Sketchy’s website, I saw the possibility of something apart from the regular figure class- something fun, and more in the tradition of the Moulin Rouge and the bawdy night life drawings of Toulouse-Lautrec!
After reading several of Dr. Sketchy’s creator Molly Crabapple’s ideas for using a bar setting and hiring performers for models, I quickly thought of the Vortex in Midtown, with its separate back showroom for the burlesque group Dames Aflame.
NEXT POST: DAMES AFLAME!
Another fun night at the Clermont Lounge! Click on the individual images for descriptions, or just let the slideshow play to see all the images.
