I have recently gotten back from an amazing holiday down to south east Queensland camping at the Woodford Folk Festival. My best friend from Brissie gave me her guest ticket which meant I was free to be a lady of leisure, as a result I was able to book in for loads of art workshops at Artisania and The Parlour. My favourite sessions were Dr Sketchy’s Anti Art School, each drawing workshop went for around an hour. Dr Sketchy’s is life drawing with a twist – instead of the models being nude they were wearing cabaret and burlesque outfits, similar in style to the types of models favoured by the Impressionists in Paris. I absolutely loved these sessions, the outfits were fabulous and the models were girly and fun to draw!

These are the drawings from the first day, the longest of these poses was ten minutes. The model with the feather fans had the most amazing flower mask around one eye.

The following sketches are from day two. I loved the mermaids! I don’t know how the models kept the plastic shells on but the costumes were beautiful. The shower puffes were comical, the tiny bath tubs made me think of Degas…

The costumes on the final day were more burlesque/bondage inspired with a little bit of bunny thrown in…

I really do wish that these sessions could have gone for longer, after the first hour I am usually getting my drawing groove on and am in the “zone”. All in all Dr Sketchy’s Woodford was an awesome experience and it was great to be drawing with so many other people (there was room for 40 artists in the venue, it was great having so much space to move around too). I am already looking forward to Dr Sketchy’s at the next Woodford Folk Fest, maybe I will go to Dr Sketchy’s in New York, need to do some net research soon!