December Dr. Sketchy's

Jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell ROCK!

DECEMBER
DR. SKETCHY'S

ANTI-ART SCHOOL!

featuring
the indelible Kelsea
and the illustrious Lord Byron!

Sunday, December 6, 5 to 8 p.m.
at the North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress Street in Portland
$5 cover + $1s to tip the wonderful models!
18 +

Bring yo' art supplies, yo' sexy mind, and yo' love of art drawin'!


Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School is taking life drawing out of the art school and into the streets--or into the bars, or the gutters, or--you get the picture. Come draw drag performers, burlesque dancers, street dancers--get settled and watch the kinky, the sexy, the dirty, the downwardly. Just bring some drawing materials and rock on!

FMI: Katie Diamond
drsketchysmaine.com
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25575644832

Ben Dixon - A Graphic Designer

Ben's science art for Treasure Bay's We Both Read book, Whales!

Ben Dixon has been a graphic designer the past 7 years working in and out of design studios.

His experiences range from using Photoshop to correct or modify art to using Dreamweaver for website design and Lightwave 3-D for animation. Ben believes nothing is beyond learning given a bit of time and patience.

Above: Ben's fun horror cover created digitally for the MEIC's Spooky Art Show

Ben's own creative style is a colorful, usually humorous mix of 40's and 50's style robots and retro designs using mostly Photoshop, textures and brushes to create science art or wierd sci-fi digital art.

His primary influences are the famous Jack Kirby' s comics, Herge's Tintin, Underzo's Asterix, and the EC comic's Tales from the Crypt. Bad 80's horror films, 40's sci-fi art and campy old advertising is also on the top of his list of cool creative influences.

When he needs to take a break, he either walks his pug, attends a horror film dressed in complete matching costume with the real deal in Hollywood makeup... scars or falling off flesh, or just gets a laugh at www. cakewrecks.com, www.drmcninja.com, or www.harkavagrant.com.

Ben Dixon in his studio
You can see more of Ben's work at:

www.redbotdesigns.blogspot.com

Group Show at the Dana Warp Mill

From Ed-

You are invited to a group show and reception!

Located at the historic Dana Warp Mill in Westbrook. Click on link for directions.

Reception December 11th, 6-8 pm.
Come chat, see some really great art, all in a really cool setting.
See you there!

Marty Braun's Airbrush Art Studio

Above: Marty Braun's wonderfully rendered Goodnight Moon illustration for the
MEIC Classic's Reimagined Art show.

Illustrator and designer Marty Braun's cluttered art studio is located in a funky antique house on Peaks Island, one of the most inhabited islands in Casco Bay, just a short ferry ride from Portland, ME.

Marty says Peaks Island is a very special place to visit and to live...great community and beautiful ocean views. He says he and illustrator Jamie Hogan, his wife, when moving to Maine from San Francisco realized they could freelance from anywhere. And who wouldn't want to live on an island?

Marty's graphic colorful artwork, self described as having a bit of fun, is painted with his trusty airbrush, a Paasche 3-in-1, and acrylic paint. Airbrush is not a quiet art to produce...his studio is filled with the white noise of the vacuum system on his drawing board (for overspray).

He admits, even though his first love is airbrush, he does try other methods of doing art...watercolor, occasionally pastels, and maybe even some block printing. He has been a Visiting Artist at MECA (Maine College of Art) and has taught at the Art Institute of Boston, Beginning Airbrush, of course!

When he needs a break from the business of doing his art, Marty and Jamie, also an MEIC member, jump onto their motorcycles and take a spin around the island or go on a Maine coastal ride.

Marty Braun, illustrator

Contact and portfolio
www.hoganbraun.com

Wade Zahares gives a talk at Heartwood, Sunday

You are invited to

Fall at Wade's Farm © Wade Zahares

Join Wade Zahares this Sunday!
at Heartwood College of Art, Kennebunk, ME

November 15, from 3-5PM,

The Daily News © Wade Zahares

Wade will be speaking about the 22 illustrations in the show
and what it takes to be an illustrator.

Original works will be for sale
along with signed and numbered Giclee Prints and his autographed
children's books.

"The Illustrator's Studio" with works by Wade Zahares, will run October 22 thru November 18, at Heartwood College of Art, Kennebunk, Maine.

Christina Siravo's Holiday Card

Here's Christina's beautiful new holiday card for the Institute for Italian Studies.

Ordering instructions and links are below.

Institute for Italian Studies Holiday Greeting Cards Dear Students and friends of the Institute, We are very pleased to introduce our first Holiday Greeting card. The card was designed for IIS by Christina Siravo, a Maine College of Art graduate and local artist. By purchasing these cards, you will not only support the Institute, but you will have a unique piece which will help you make someone you love smile during this Holiday season. Inside the card enjoy our "Buone Feste" and "Happy Holiday" wishes, and have fun writing to your loved ones. Orders start on November 5. Cards can be purchased via email or at the school on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday before or after our classes. We accept cash, check, money order or Visa/MC. Buone Feste Luisa and Paola Cost: $2.50 per card $12.00 set of 5 $20.00 set of 10 Envelopes are included. To receive more information, or order your cards, email info@iismaine.com or call Luisa (207) 939-5127 Hurry up, supply is limited! Institute for Italian Studies 28 Maple St Portland, Maine 04101 (207) 409-0276 or 939-5127 info@iismaine.com www.iismaine.com

Sheli Petersen at the Levy Gallery

Cormorant © Sheli Petersen

Sheli Petersen is currently showing two drawings in the 10th Annual Joan L. Dunfey Memorial Juried Exhibition. The exhibition is sponsored by the New Hampshire Art Association and was juried by Nancy Tieken, a trustee and member of the Collections Committee of the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art and the Harvard Art Museum.

The exhibition is on display at the
Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery in Portsmouth, NH
click on above link for directions
from November 4 – November 27.

Cormorant, one of her pieces in the Dunfy Exhibition, combines two of Sheli’s favorite things—birding and drawing. The media are prisma color, woodless pencil, and graphite on paper.

You can view Sheli’s illustration work at:

www.spetersenillustration.com