Lily LaRue, if that's your real name...

Last Saturday, March 8, HATCH had their 2nd annual HATCHed art show. Even though I didn't get anything in I definitely made an appearance. Firstly because you gotta support the team, but also because we had a session of Dr. Sketchy beforehand and I finally got those Sketchy tee shirts made and wanted to bring them in.

Art Monkeys start to gather at Cafe 1923 in Hamtramck for Dr. Sketchy and the HATCHed art show.

Dr. Sketchy Ringmaster Sean Bieri looks surprised as he shows off one of the brand new tee shirts printed by my friends at J's Silkscreens.

Muana, one of our favorite models, and John Nagridge pose for a pic before the show starts.

Azucena's all ready to draw.

Our model, Lily LaRue (pretty sure that's not her real name) is almost ready to start.

The sketchy-ing begins.

Quite the spectacle, many a passerby stop to rubberneck as Lily LaRue poses in the window at Cafe 1923.

After doing some one-minute warm-up drawings, we get down to some 5 and 10 minute sketching business. These are my first attempts at illustrating Miss LaRue.

Michelangelo Cicerone shows off his winning sketch for the theme "Think Spring". He also was picked for an honorary HATCH membership as an up-and-coming artist. Just so you know, Mic, I voted for ya.

Fancy, huh?

Here's my entry.

A few more sketches round out the evening.

The last sketch of the night was a round robin where three people work on the same sketch for five minutes each. You get some pretty cool results. This one is by Azucena, Matt (whose last name I can't read because his pen smeared), and myself.

Lily LaRue poses in her fancy new wardrobe.

Art Monkeys Azucena, Lou, and Jennifer have a post Sketchy snack and talk it up.

The awesome Azucena's handiwork - Circus Peanut Sal!

HATCHeted

HATCH, the art group I belong to is putting on their second annual HATCHback show next weekend. Seeing as how I had managed to get something in last year's show I pulled several pieces out and submitted them to the jury for this year, hoping beyond hope I'd get something in. Aaaaannnnndddd....? Denied. Which is okay because I really wasn't happy with anything I did (except for the dancers). And now I don't have to scramble around getting prints made and framing them.

But I did manage to get something in through the back door in a way. I was asked to do the official mailer postcard announcing the show. So I got that going for me. Which is nice. Below are my entries followed by the postcard (which I entered as well at the last minute). Oh well. Whaddaya gonna do?

Young Sketchy in Love

I'm a few weeks behind in posting these, but here's some art from a special Valentine's Day session of Dr. Sketchy.

Saturday...in the Park

This was a sketch I'd done some time ago while drinking tea outside my local Caribou Coffee. I was looking to do something new for the upcoming HATCH gallery show, so I painted a larger version. I'm not sure I like it enough to enter, but here it is.

New Zoo Review

Last Saturday brought a trip to the zoo with the lovely Azucena. We both brought our sketchbooks along too. It was a mild day as far as February in Michigan goes, but we spent most of our time inside at the butterfly garden and the amphibian house. When we finally ventured out to sketch some mammalian quadrapeds, they weren't being very cooperative - the camels just didn't feel like posing. But a passing peacock was intrigued by my pencil box, thinking it food perhaps. So I caught his likeness as fast as possible and when he started to move away I shook my box to catch his attention again. The two of us attempted to move on to other outside dwellers, but wussed out due to the cold and spent our last minutes before closing hanging with the penguins. Azucena's dawings were awesome! Here's a few of what I did.

Sketchbook Pages

Here's a smattering of recent stuff from my electronic sketchbook.