The Akron Dr. Sketchy group will be displaying work at Lockview in downtown Akron from October 29th through some time in December. Next time your feeling like art, good beer and gourmet grilled cheese stop down to check it out. below is one of the pieces I did for the show. And check out some of my previous posts to see the original sketches done at the Dr. Sketchy Events.

And if you are looking to have some fun and draw, check out Dr. Sketchy Events the second Tuesday of every month. Beer, Music, Drawing, Fun.

Sketch of the taps at Retz Laconis II

I got my sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project in the mail the other day. My theme is “Uncharted Waters”. I decided a map of the Mythical land of Lemuria, the supposed lost continent that once connected Madagascar (of Lemur fame) and India, was a perfect cover. I think I may need to add a lemur to it?

Had a good time at Dr. Sketchy’s event last night and thought I would post some of my drawings from it, the I realized I had months worth of sketches to scan in, so thought I would post a big batch of them all at once.

If you don’t know what Dr. Sketchy’s is, it’s like an art school life drawing class, but add music, beer, burlesque models, costumes and lots of fun. Check out their website, or look them up on facebook. It’s an excellent time.

The sketches are most all from those events, or from me just sitting around at drawing people. Most sketches are done between 1 and 15 minutes.

Quick snap shot of a new painting I did of the White Queen from Through the Looking Glass. I’ll have a better scan soon. It’s Acrylic over watercolour. I worked very thick, possibly too thick in areas. But it came out mostly how I wanted it too.

I’m going in for a little procedure on my heart next month and although I know it is going to be fine, the whole process sounds utterly horrid and embarrassing. I’ve been through a similar procedure when I was 11 and do not have the best memories from it. Mostly it just sucked cause I missed a whole summer of swimming. While my brother and sister and friends swam all summer at Grandma Eggy’s house, I sat on one of those mats people put out on their patios, you know the green kind, that sucks up the water and feels like some sort of weird alien grass, I sat up their and watched as my stitches healed.

Anyway, I keep sketching hearts and weird things happening to hearts. so here are two of those that I took a little further. The first one reminds me a bit of a Mad Magazine illustration, which isn’t really a bad thing I guess.

A few weeks ago a friend of mine was looking for artists to do 6×6 tiles, with their representations of the “essence of water”, for an local studio’s art show. The show will hopefully be made up of 500 or more artists works from all over the world, and all proceeds will go to benefit wildlife and water reclamation efforts in the Gulf Coast.

Since I have been slightly obsessed with whales lately I choose to paint one for the show. I feel that they are an apt representation, with their beauty, intelligence, diversity and history with man, of life in our oceans, it’s fragility and our ability to affect both positively and negatively. Below is “almost” the finale of the painting I did. It is called Lobtailing Novaeangliae. It is Water Coulor on 6″x6″ Tile.

Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School had it’s re-premiere in Akron last night. Dr. Sketchy’s is live model drawing with Cabaret/Burlesque models, drinking and a nice friendly atmosphere. Last night it was held at “The Lounge” above 69 Taps. The model was Terra Incognita out of Cleveland and she did an excellent job. We started with one minuet drawings and worked are way up to 15 min poses stopping for a few beers along the way.

Below are some of the better sketches, none of which come close to doing the model justice, I came away with. The first is of another artist who happened to be sitting next to me as I was sketching to warm up. The event started a little late so I did this in about 30 mins. The second is a one min pose, the third is a five and the last two are 15 min poses.

I’ve finally decided to combine my Blog and Website into one easily managed area. Have a look around and let me know what you think. You can click on any image to see a larger version.

For my First post on the new site I am showing a new painting a just finished. Based on some sketches I have been doing. It is a mix of Water Colour, Gauche and Aquatone Colored Pencils. Below are some other whale sketches I have been doing lately.