A livelier life drawing event, Dr. Sketchy’s is where artists of all levels draw fabulous burlesque and variety performers. Enjoy delicious cocktails and compete in zany drawing contests to win free drinks and other awesome prizes! We’ll start off with quick 1- and 2-minute gesture poses and gradually move up to 20-minute sketches. No drawing experience is necessary; just bring your own drawing materials—plus generous cash tips for our model—and join us for some fun figure sketching practice!

The fabulously multi-talented Kalypso Kraken will be modeling in some fantastically marine-themed looks for this fun MerMay night of drinks and drawing! Here's more about our May muse:

"Kalypso Kraken, The Sea Monster of Your Wettest Dreams. She’s not just a burlesque leviathan, but an award-winning belly dancer as well as the co-producer of 'Art of the Belly' belly dance festival. Kalypso first dipped her tentacles into striptease as a student at Baltimore’s Essential Tease burlesque queeniversity in April 2023. Since her debut performance as a whip-cracking Marge Simpson, she’s unleashed her particular brand of mythical glam and magic around Charm City and beyond. When not sinking ships and breaking hearts, she is a belly dance instructor and performer, licensed make-up artist, a figure art model, and certified group fitness instructor. Fun fact: Kalypso is associated with the Kraken due to her love of cephalopods."

Come early to get the best seats and a drink—and even a delicious dinner—then stay after we wrap up to share your work with fellow artists over one last drink at the bar.

Doors at 6:00 pm, drawing from 7-10 pm. 18+ to draw, 21+ to drink. $15 in advance, $18 at the door, plus service fees for online and in-person credit card transactions. BYO drawing supplies. No photography, messy paints, or dip pens, please (watercolors are fine). Space is limited, so compact drawing setups with sketchbooks no larger than 12"x18" are strongly recommended.

(Photo of Kalypso Kraken by Launa Dixon.)