Yowzah.  If you missed this month’s Dr. Sketchy, you missed out on…  a lot.  A whole, whole lot.  Yowzah.

Mad love and huge thanks to Rebecca of Lady Grace Academy for bringing her own unique brand of jaw dropping wonderfulness to our Sketchy stage.  VA-VA-VOOM!

Check out some of the great photos popping up on our Houston Sketchy Flickr group – our official photog stud Groovehouse has been hard at work!

The divine proprietress of Lady Grace Academy will be… you guessed it, GRACE-ing our Sketchy stage this Sunday, November 8th.

Grab your sketchpad, pencils, coloring books or Wacom tablet and join us for some great life drawing, a gaggle of gobbles and some plain homecooked Sketchy fun.

What: VA-VA-VOOM!!  Sketchy life drawing session
When: Sunday, November 8th from 2-6pm
Where: Upstairs at Avant Garden (411 Westheimer)
How much: $10 at the door

This ain’t your Grandma’s knitting.  No siree.

Join our absolutely gorgeous model Katie as she rocks out her yarn and pointy sticks action on the Sketchy stage for an afternoon of drawing, drinking and…  KNITTING SEXINESS!!!!

Are you a crafty type?  Grab your knitting and crochet projects and we’ll let you in for half price!

What: Houston Dr. Sketchy Naughty Knitting Party
Where: Avant Garden (upstairs)  411 Westheimer
When: Sunday, October 11th  2-6pm
How much: $10 + tips for your models (bring your knitting for a $5 ticket)

Mad love to rock star photog Tracy Tesmer for the gorgeous Sketchy flier photo of Katie!

Hey groovy Sketchy lovers, check out the latest and greatest in Dr. Sketchy apparel!!

For a (very) limited time only, the Sketchy geniuses are offering one HELL of a fantastic t-shirt that will be sure to inspire your Sketchy creativity and drawing mojo.

Also, it might get you laid.  We’re not promising anything, but we feel very strongly about this.  And by we, we mean ‘Katie’.  Let us know how it goes.

Want a piece of the action?  Fill out this handy form to let us know your details and send your $25 payment to our Paypal account (details on the order form).  We’ll have your shirt waiting for you at the October Dr. Sketchy on October 11th.

We’re jumping back into Houston Dr. Sketchy classtime with a RED HOT model – Jennifer!  An accomplished artist herself, she’s putting herself onstage for a color study in red.

What: Houston Sketchy September party goes red hot, hot, hot!
When: Sunday, September 13th 2-6pm
Where: Avant Garden (411 Westheimer)
How much: $10 + model tips

Bring your sketchpads, drawing pencils and sass – this is one back to school Sketchy that will be blazingly etched into your memory and drawing pads alike.

Join some of your favorite Houston Dr. Sketchy peeps tonight (Saturday, August 15th) from 7pm – midnight at Caroline Collective (4820 Caroline) for the Information Superhighway gathering!  It’s a meeting of the minds (and livers – free booze, people) for area artists, hackers, geeks and rebels.  Be there.

It will be a very laid back evening spent imbibing free Saint Arnold’s beer, margaritas, barbecue and other fixins’.  Stay for the great people, bring a t-shirt to screenprint, witness some laser graffiti and get crafty with Sarah from Sew Crafty!

Some of the featured speakers include:

• Dallas Baker, Freed Advertising
• Ed Schipul, The Schipul Web Marketing Company
• Paul Tucker, Matt Wettergreen, Ned Dodington, Caroline Collective
• Katie Laird, Houston Dr. Sketchy
• Javier Fadul, Culture Pilot
• Tony Medrano, Pecha Kucha Houston
• Brian Block, Pierpont Communications

The Sketchy crew is taking August off for another summer vacation!  We’ll be working on our tans, practicing our beach cleavage sketches and wishing you were here.

Get ready for one SMASHING back to school Houston Sketchy session in September with a model who is so hot, she deserves a post of her own — coming soon!!!

Next Sketchy par-tay:

When: Sunday, September 13th  2-6pm
Where: Upstairs at Avant Garden (411 Westheimer)
How much: $10 + apple for teacher

We had a great group of sketchers (including some of our Houston Sketchy all stars) our for the very first Sketches and Pints this weekend at the ever-amazing Saint Arnold’s Brewery.  It was hot (hello Texas summer heat!), fun and full of beer foam-y awesomeness.

The artists rocked out some great pieces (and made some sales too – WOOT!!!):

All sorts of sketching awesomeness went down:

And of course there was beer.  Delicious, ice cold, wonderful Saint Arnold’s beer.  YUM.  Thanks to Lennie and the Saint Arnold’s crew, we seriously love you guys.

Bummed that you missed this month’s Sketches and Pints?  Never fear!!  We’ll be back in action Saturday, September 19th at Coffee Groundz!  More details to come – sign up for our Sketches and Pints newsletter here, if you want to stay in the know!

These great photos are courtesy of  the fearless photog and friend Ed Schipul – thanks for braving the heat! (and we totally forgive you for spilling that beer, btw).

Our amazing official Houston Sketchy photographer Groovehouse has a gaggle of great Houston Dr. Sketchy photos in the Houston Press today!  Thanks for the photo love, man are we sexy or WHAT?

The next Houston Sketchy is Sunday, August 9th from 2-6pm at the always glorious Avant Garden (411 Westheimer).  $10 to get in, bring your sketchpads, pencils, sense of humor and liver – we’ll do the rest.

Need more, want more?  Of course you do.  Connect with us on Facebook, drool over our photos and artist sketches on Flickr and troll Twitter for Houston Dr. Sketchy mentions.  We’ve even got a hawt monthly newsletter you can sign up for here.

This Saturday is the first Sketches and Pints event (not Dr. Sketchy, but another great place for artists to draw – and sell their work!) at Saint Arnold’s Brewery – come for the tour and tasting, stay for the kick ass artists.  $5 gets you into the brewery at 1pm.  Ciao bellos!

We had a great July Houston Sketchy!  Thanks to our great artists and sex pot model Tracy, we celebrated the hot and sultry summer afternoon with ink, paper, cupcake icing and army boots.

Looking for a little extra drawing this month?  Join us this Saturday at Saint Arnold’s Brewery at 11:30am for a sketch, sip and sell afternoon (email happykatie at houstonsketchy dot com to RSVP) — and of course we’ll see you next month on Sunday, August 9th!

Be sure to post your sketches and photos in our Houston Dr. Sketchy Flickr group!

Rocking sketches thanks to Flickr user Mad Puffin