In June, San Diego art monkeys got a double dose of late 1960s sexy sci-fi cheese!

On June 4, Dr. Sketchy’s was invited by the groovy folks at MoPA to hold a mini sketch class during their POP Thursdays Barbarella-themed party. The lovely LEIA posed in MoPA’s lobby, compelling party-goers to grab a pad and capture her intergalactic bodaciousnes.

Lucky monkeys! That’s wasn’t all! Leia reprises her role at our regular session on June 20, with Barbarella playing at the bar, music from the soundtrack playing, and pictures of beautiful blind angel Pygar decorating the stage!

Entries in the “best drawing with your non-dominant hand” contest

The lovely Amelia wins again!

Presto – Barbarella is replaced with the Great Tyrant. “Pretty, pretty, pretty…”

We dragged Ruby Room co-owner Paul onstage to judge the “round robin” contests (teams of 4 art monkeys traded pads every 5 minutes).

Congrats to the winnas! Mmmm…booze.

Farewell art monkeys! We didn’t find Durand Durand, but it was awesome!

Some amazing sketches from our monkeys…Check out more in our flickr pool, and upload yours!

David Lozeau

Jeff Amante

It’s time to roll! The San Diego Derby Starlettes (of the San Diego Roller Derby League) posed in a sporty spice session

In today’s match – Velvet Klaw!

Mosquito Bandito!

Rosy Lee Ristaker!

Red Hot Penni!

and Holly Car Brader!

The girls showed their softer side and got all pinup-y

Photographer Monkey Matt was strong armed, I mean, volunteered to be the “Human Canvas” for one of our wacky contests. One art monkey drew the lovely Holly Car Brader on his back, one on his front, and the winner was chosen by applause-o-meter

The worthy runner-up!

The winnah!!

Va va voom!

Special thanks to the San Diego Roller Derby League lovelies from the San Diego Derby Starlettes!  And to the North Park Craft Mafia for donating some cool prizes!

Some awesome sketches from our art monkeys! Check out more in our Flickr photo pool.

Burlesque beauty and tarot card queen Mija Macabre brought her dark version of Alice in Wonderland to life for our over-capacity crowd of eager art monkeys.

The white rabbit is having a bad day.

Mynx as the “very little hat” mad hatter

The winner of our “Alice with a gothed-out white rabbit” contest

Mija transforms into the Red Queen for the second set.

The Red Queen is eying your neck..

Try sleeping after that fairy tale! Goodnight gentle art monkeys. Until next time.

Dr. Sketchy mingled with the gods in our March session, a Tribute to Indian Divinity.

Ganesh, patron of the arts and sciences, intellect and wisdom, graced us with his ponderous presence.

The winner of our first contest put Ganesh in a scene from Indiana Jones…Snakes, why’d it have to be snakes?!

Next came burlesque cutie Mynx D’Meanor as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, prosperity and generosity.

Sabrina, as divine mother Parvati, delights our art monkeys with a belly dance.

Our gods ended the session with a group pose.

Jake sneaks a photo of the divine…

Then collects tribute for the inspired models.

SPECIAL THANKS to Sabrina, Mynx, Ganesh and JAKE WILSON, who styled the session and designed each god’s look.

MISS H was full of treats and tricks for her repeat performance as our DOMINATRIX VALENTINE

Time for cuddles…

Miss H judges the first contest, “Best depiction of Miss H in a box of Valentine’s chocolates”

The winner! She got a real leather bondage mask as a prize. Lucky girl!!

Bad teddy!

Our dominatrix goes platinum for the last set…

In the end, Miss H craves a little discipline herself…

Goodnight naughty art monkeys! See you next month!

Many art monkeys caught the Eye of the Tiger sketching STMUL8R in our January 2009 session!

Winner and new world champion of the “draw STMUL8R all beat up” contest won a cool punching nun puppet!

Very close runner up…

STMUL8R switched to runner mode for his next set.

STMUL8R got all bendy for his last set.

It looks like this “Draw STMUL8R as Baby New Year” contest may become an annual event!

The winna!!

Goodnight art monkeys! See you in February!

Congratulations to Nancy Carp! The winner of our first Dr. Sketchy’s Wall of Fame Contest. Nancy sent in her sketch of dark beauty Mija Macabre from our December 2008 session “Dr. Sketchy’s Holiday Pageant on Ice“. Nancy’s piece will be proudly displayed on the Ruby Room’s Dr. Sketchy’s Wall of Fame.  Congratulations Nancy! Good luck to everyone in January!

Merry Xmas from Dr. Sketchy’s! Many art monkeys turned out to share the holiday cheer…and tie one on! Our session featured a holiday assortment pack of models. We started with STMUL8R as one dead sexy Santa.

Our art monkeys were treated to a sassy burlesque performance to “Santa Baby” by the fabulous Lady Borgia, followed by some more poses.

One festive sketcher wins the “Draw Lady Borgia with Santa’s Elves” for her “elf gang bang” composition!

Mynx D’Meanor wows the crowd with her performance, then more poses!

Last but not least was sparkly goth princess Mija Macabre!

Mija picks a winner for the “Mija with Sloshy the Drunken Reindeer” contest

Happy Holiday to all! See you in 2009!!

Welcome Art Monkeys to our new home at the fabulous Ruby Room in Hillcrest! For our first official Ruby Room session, Mynx D’Meanor of the Fishnet Follies Burlesque Revue essayed poses in honor of a favorite kink classic, the 2002 film Secretary.

Our art monkeys adapted well to their new environment.

Reverend Dick lent Mynx a, ahem…hand with the poses

The models choose the winner of the “Best Portrait in Red Sharpie” contest. Don’t get it? You must see the film!

The proud winner of a set of colored Sharpies…

And a shot, of course.

Mynx really lost herself in the role.

Some entries in the “Mynx in Bondage” contest

The winner gets a “Pimp my cubicle” playset and humorous sticky notes…just the thing to distract your mind from the soul-sucking tedium that is office work!

Give that girl a hand, she deserves it!

Special thanks to Sean, Paul and Brittany at the Ruby Room, Mynx D’Meanor and Reverend Dick of Fishnet Follies, and our Art Monkeys!

The folks at the Museum of Photographic Arts generously hosted us again for their POP Thursdays event. The theme film for this event was Tim Burton’s tribute to the worst filmmaker of all time, ED WOOD.

Mynx D’Meanor and Reverend Dick of Fishnet Follies Burlesque Revue lent their talents to pose as the legendary Ed Wood and his fuzzy-sweatered muse, Dolores Fuller.

The sketchers included Sketchy regulars and newbies who came to see the show and decided to try their hands at some art monkeying.

Ed gets ready to reveal his taste for angora and skirts!

Oh, the shame!

Special thanks to Reverend Dick, Mynx D’Meanor, and everyone at MoPA’s POP Thursdays, especially Jerald and Sue (below right)! See you kids again soon…