Dr Sketchy's Birmingham presents 'Spring has Sprung'
Saturday 26th May 2012
Writing this on another wet and miserable summer day it is hard to imagine that the sun ever shone in England. It did and it was on one of these rare and gloriously sunny days that we made our way to the Victoria in Birmingham to attend Dr Sketchy's 'Spring has Sprung' event.
The sunny weather meant that there were slightly less of us than usual, apparently some people would rather sit in their gardens than sit in a room drawing girls. Idiots!
Those of us who had made the right choice and decided to draw climbed the stairs to the
Dr Sketchy's Anti-art School Birmingham presents Comic Book Capers... or Whaaaaaaaaaam Bam Thank You Spiderman!
Saturday March 31st 2012
As Bruce Wayne once said 'Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot' artists however are a little braver, and so it was pencils, pens and paints in hand it was we descended on the Victoria Pub for the latest Dr Sketchy's Birmingham.
An integral part of Dr Sketchy's is getting a good seat (they are all good seats), usually this leads to a sense of determination upon entering. Pay money. Head down. Find seat. Draw!
After this initial distraction we settled down and sat back for an
Dr Sketchy's Anti-art School Birmigham presents 'Comic Book Capers'
Come and join us for more fun and frolics of a boozey, burlesque and arty kind!
Our line up for our homage to the cartoon and comic book world can now be announced....
Parma Violet - Harley Quinn act
Velma Von Bon Bon - Super Girl inspired act
Ivy Wilde - Poison Ivy act
Tiffany Beau posing and stage managing - Sally Jupiter from the Watchmen
Fleur Du Mal - posing as Rogue from the X Men
With our larger than life compere, singer and real live Jessica Rabbit - its Liberty Pink!
Our special guest is body painter extra-ordinaire - John
Dr Sketchy's Anti-art School Birmingham - Eastern Promise or 'In Birmingham no one can hear you Harem'
Birmingham in January is a cold desolate place so we were all very pleased that the Dr Sketchy's gang would be warming us all up with the promise of palm trees, desserts, deserts, camels, fezzes (fez's?, fezzs?) and some general 'Eastern Promise'.
My local life drawing group has been going to these for a while (we all travel from Shrewsbury and it has become some what of an eagerly anticipated event) and after meeting them downstairs in the bar we headed up to the Victoria's penthouse studio (upstairs bar). We were barely halfway up the stairs when we
