Greetings, Art Monkeys!
For those of you who don't recognize the above painting, it is called "La Grande Odalisque," it was painted by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and it was the inspiration for the costumes of our latest session of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School. You may be thinking, "But she isn't wearing any costume! In fact, she isn't wearing anything at all!" Precisely! Following this example, our lovely models Rogizoid and Madame Rosebud posed wearing as little as this odalisque. Justin Lussier documented the whole thing with photographs.
¡Bienvenido, monos de arte!
Last week was our tribute to spicy Latina spitfire Frida Kahlo. You know, Frida Kahlo is one of those costumes that you can really pull off with only one accessory (the one between her eyes and her forehead), so it was nice to see the effort that went into truly capturing the spirit of Mexican culture and Kahlo's work in particular the way only white children of the suburbs like us can. As a sidenote, after writing that sentence, I did some research into her ethnic background and found out that Frida Kahlo was of German-Jewish ancestry as much as Mexican, so from an ethnic standpoint, we were actually much closer than I thought when I started writing this blog entry. And channeling that spirit was the ravishing Katelan
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For our last session, we returned to the west side of the East River, but it seemed that we had not yet rid ourselves of our monster problem. This time, the monsters infesting our stage were vampires - specifically the Cullens Edward and Bella from the best-selling and critically disavowed novel, Breaking Dawn, the stake through the heart of the Twilight trilogy. Although famed for the shallowest romance and most transparent Mary Sue in any non-Objectivist work, I have to admit that it is the creepiest, most disturbing, and most terrifying vampire book I have ever read. We just know that there is no way Hollywood will do justice to to this pinnacle of horror and Superboy fan fiction, so we decided to have our own
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Last week, our nomadic wanderings brought us back where we started, to Williamsburg. Like most of you, we wanted to host a life drawing session in an old abandoned warehouse, but, wouldn't you know it? The warehouse was not as abandoned as we had thought, for this particular warehouse was the home of Kaiju Big Battel, where monsters come to fight, and there were a couple of monsters still around. Fortunately, our model, pole dancer and cult film star Cay Izumi, happened to be Japanese, meaning she was well-practiced in fighting monsters. She protected us, and allowed us to draw her doing so, and thus the session went off without a hitch.
Greetings, Art Monkeys!
What is summer without the beach? Oh, I know, there are tons of people in landlocked corners of the world who have no beach, but they're losers! Here in New York, we have Coney Island, where there you'll find roller coasters and corn dogs and mermaids. Yes, friends, mermaids are real and they are not manatees. Manatees are nice, but they aren't magical, and mermaids are the realest magic I have known in my life. Mermaids are the most beautiful soulless abominations that the sea has to offer. So it was that when Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School came to the beach, we brought along our own mermaid, Kiki Valentine. Special guest photographer Abigail Amalton was there to document.
Cay Izumi + Kaiju Big Battel, peoples! Oh so many dorkenstein fantasies fulfilled...
