Mystery Sketch Theater at Falcon Bar.

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Mystery Sketch Theater is a live figure drawing session that
takes place once a month, on the first Thursday of the month at an
awesome artsy bar and gallery called The Falcon (819 E. Washington
Street, Orlando, FL 32801). The cost is just $5 which goes to the model. The models are superheroes, burlesque performers, retro housewives, belly dancers, drag queens! It’s a hoot! About a dozen artists will show to sketch quick one minute poses to start and gradually work up to longer 20 minute poses. I like to sketch the artists at work as well as the model. One artist brought in his dog, and they sketched from their spot on the floor.

The next Mystery Sketch Theater Presents, Sunny Cummings. She is a yoga instructor so expect to see some super human flexibility.

We provide you the most ravishing, exotic and fascinating models our
fair city and beyond can provide. Elaborate costumes, fabulous makeup,
and amazing personalities. On that note…if you have a pair of fishnets
or a sequined bra, you might want to contact us for modeling
opportunities. We’ll pamper and worship you.

Artists of all
skill levels and occupations are welcome to come. Even non-artists who
just want to hang out, get their geek on and have a good time with good
people are more than welcome too. Artists are asked to pay a small fee
of $5 for the evening to help cover costs for running the event. Oh, did
I mention we have contests? Silly! Ridiculous contests! With prizes!

First Thursday of the month, every month from 8-10 PM! Come early to
get a great seat and snag a drawing table before they’re all spoken for!

The Falcon and Gallery is a haven for local artists.

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The Falcon Bar and Gallery (819 E Washington St, Orlando, FL) always has local art to see. The shows usually have a theme. There was recently a Bill Murry themed show and I sketched a local actress and dancer for a show titled Porn. I went to the first social media Round table hosted by Mark Baratelli at IZEA and Melissa Marie, the Falcons owner was there. As a local business owner, she realized early on that social media is the way to promote business. Her bartenders are encouraged to use Snap Chat to share happenings at the bar with friends. I didn’t even realize snap chat existed. Social Media keeps changing so fast, I need to keep up.

Mondays at the Falcon is for the men. Tuesdays are for locals, there is trivia, Uberbahn, open mics and DJs on most days of the week. On Sunday nights at 9pm there are the “Fear the Walking Dead” watch parties. You have to love a bar that caters to zombie loving patrons like myself.  If there is a zombie apocolipse, I’ll be ready with a sharp sword and a sketchbook. Once a month, Mystery Sketch Theater, now hosted by Plinio Pinto, is a great way to loosen up and sketch cos-play models for $5. If you are a voyeur like me, the Falcon will satiate that guilty pleasure and your thirst. Now that I’m hosting Orlando Drink and Draw (ODD) on the first Monday of each month, I need to find out if the Falcon will host the growing band of vagabond artists one month.

Mark your calendar! The next event at the Falcon is DJ Lavidicus on Sunday September 11th starting at 9pm. Come out to hear the very best in Industrial, Goth, EBM, Synthpop and Darkwave. Everyone knows where they were on September 11th of 2009. If you drink enough this night, you might not remember as clearly. Never a cover, always a good time! (21+) If you check my AADW calendar, you will always find Falcon events in the mix.

Mystery Sketch Theater at Falcon Bar is always a great sketch opportunity.

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Every month, Mystery Sketch Theater offers clothed models for artists to draw at The Falcon (819 E Washington Street, Suite 2, Orlando, Florida). The model in March was Brooke White. She started the evening dressed as a bear and came out of hibernation during the course of the evening. She must have been hot under all those layers but that didn’t keep her from taking killer poses all evening long. Standing on one foot in an action pose is almost masochistic. All artists are a bit sadistic when they insist that people stand still. Plinio Pinto now runs Mystery Sketch Theater after Kristen Pauline had to abandon the post because of work conflicts. It makes me happy that so many artists come together each month to sketch. I’m surprised that I only knew a couple of them. Perhaps Orlando isn’t such a small town after all.

By the end of the night, Brooke was posing in just her stripped PJs. Several Angry Orchards meant my line work was nice and loose by the end of the night. Art on display was by local artists all depicting their version of actor, comedian Bill Murray.  I believe the tooth shaped painting I included in the sketch was based on Little Shop of Horrors in which Bill played the part of masochistic dentist patient.

Mark your calendar! The next Mystery Sketch Theater is on September 3, 2015 at The Falcon (819 E Washington Street, Suite 2, Orlando, Florida). The sketching begins at 8pm. Be sure to get a drink or two to thank Falcon Bar for being the new home base for artists who love to draw.

Purple Pride immediately siezes Orlando.

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I was going to Falcon Bar (819 E Washington St, Orlando, FL) or Mystery Sketch Theater which has a cos-play model taking poses for artists once a month. Streets were blocked off and I found myself walking besides runners in a 5K race. Everyone was wearing purple tee shirts. I heard an announcer and walked towards the noise. A finish line was set up on the East side of Lake Eola Park on Washington Street.

A Food Truck Bazaar were set up beyond the finish line and hungry runners lined up for food. I sketched the purple Orlando Soccer truck. Soccer has been promoted with a vengeance and   Orlando City Soccer Club logos, murals and stickers are all over town. Lion heads appear everywhere. The renovated Orlando Citrus Bowl Stadium is now packed for every game. I haven’t figured out who to contact yet about sketching a game. I feel I need to report on a team that has quickly become as known as the Orlando Magic basketball team. With the US team doing better in the international soccer competitions, the fan base keeps growing.

Mark Baratelli of the Daily City had organized all the food trucks. He showed me a paper that he now publishes that shows where to find each food truck bazaar all around Central Florida.  I admire the marketing prowess of the Orlando City Soccer Club and Mark’s entrepreneurial spirit. After I finished my sketch I walked over to the Falcon Bar to squeeze a few more sketches into my day.

Mystery Sketch Theater has moved to the Falcon Bar.

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Mystery Sketch Theater is a monthly sketch group. Models are usually dressed in elaborate cos play costumes. The sketch session is just $5 for the night. The sessions have moved around over the years. The first time I went it was held in a tiny Japanese bar called Tatame near Rollins College, it was then held in Comic Shop on Semorian Boulevard and then in a warehouse near Fairbanks. Its newest home is The Falcon Bar ( 819 E Washington Street, Suite 2, Orlando, Florida). I like to go when I can. Having a model pose for any length of time is a real luxury.

Tonight’s model is Brooke. She will be coming out of hibernation on stage right in front of your eyes! I suggest you buy a drink to thank The Falcon for hosting. The bar doesn’t serve food so feel free to order delivery from a nearby restauraunt. I haven’t sketched Mystery Sketch Theater at the Falcon yet, so I plan to go tonight to loosen up and relax.

Mark your calendar! Mystery Sketch Theater is tonight, Thursday March 5, 2015. The sketching starts at 8pm until 10pm. You don’t have to be an artist, just come out grab a drink and be a voyeur. Sketching is $5. Its free to watch.

Birding down in Kissimmee

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Terry’s niece Claire Brown was visiting with her boyfriend. The entire Brown family are avid birders and Terry has also caught the birding obsession. It has been a blessing on vacation because while Terry was searching for birds, I could sketch. This is a rather old sketchbook that has a few unfilled spreads left to fill. On these pages I drew two thumbs for some reason. Those thumbs became a block that kept me from filling up the sketchbooks. At a Mystery Sketch Theater session, I used the spread to do quick gestural studies in pencil. The sketchbook sat abandoned for years. I like a sketchbook to have an overall flow when it is flipped through. For whatever reason this spread threw the book off track.

I erased as much of the harsh pencil work as I could and reworked the sketch as my relatives birded. I only had at most half an hour, so I kept the sketch extra loose. Trying to do a sketch in a stolen moment like this is stressful, but the sketch couldn’t be any worse than the mess that was already on the page. In some ways, messing up the page a bit first can be freeing. It gets past the pristine blank page and lets me realize it is just a sketch, let it go.  I’ve shown this sketch to students and they seldom notice the thumbs hidden in the composition. You can always change and adjust a sketch to push it in a new direction. It was a lesson learned, and soon this sketchbook will be filled and join the others on my bookshelf.

Mystery Sketch Theater

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Mystery Sketch Theater happens every first Wednesday of the month. I went on February 5th. The sketch session happens in an empty warehouse in Winter Park, (784 Cherry St, Winter Park, FL). Kiki Aran was the model for the evening, dressed in a purple gown with a huge golden collar-breast plate and belt.  For the February session, she was first dressed as Wonder Woman and then a female Ozymandias (comic version).

 Kiki is a college professor by day and a cosplay
crafting junkie by night. Best known for her Zero Suit Samus cosplay,
her interests include FPS and Survival horror games, cerebral anime, DC
Comics, and anything BBC. You can find her on FaceBook, or you might have seen her at Megacon 2014.

As always there was a competition and artists were given the challenge of sketching Kiki in a battle with corgis, that is right, those stumpy British pups. The winner walked away with Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece, “My Neighbor Totoro” DVD. Since I already own the DVD I don’t feel too bad. I was nowhere near finished when it came time to put the drawings on the model stand. I needed every minute to finish what I had started. As usual my attention shifted to the creators rather than just the model.

It always feels good having the luxury of a model who stays still.  I need to get out to these sketch sessions more often. The next Mystery Sketch Theater Presents, Tokyo Belle on Wednesday, April 2 at 8:00pm. The Warehouse is at 784 Cherry St, Winter Park, FL 32789.

Mystery Sketch Theater

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Mystery Sketch Theater is held every first Wednesday of the month at a Winter Park warehouse, (784 Cherry St, Winter Park, FL). Franki Markstone was the model in June. She wore a delicate blue ensemble with a corset that let her ample bosom pour out. She had to check with each pose to be sure nothing slipped free. The dress was covered in thousands of sequins which she had personally hot glued in place. Now this level of detail is kind of hard to catch in the 30 second and one minute drawings so I let it slide. I ignored her tattoos as well since it conflicted with her Marilyn Monroe image. A fan would have been nice to billow up her skirt. She later came out in a purple, green and black dominatrix outfit. There was a very intricate flaming tattoo on her chest. I wanted to explore it in detail, but that alone would have taken an hour to sketch.

Tonight July 3rd, at 8pm, Scarlett Lush will be returning to Mystery Sketch Theater! She specializes in making
her own costumes out of latex and vinyl. They are both awesome and
shiny. Here is a little bit more about her, in her own words: “I’m Scarlett Lush a dominant fetish model and sassy lady. My job
consists of dressing up and getting paid to play with models or spanking
men. Most of my outfits come from a local clothing company called Suzi Fox. We’ve designed some awesome pieces together and she always makes
sure I’m looking fierce. I’m excited to be a part of Mystery Sketch Theater.”

Event organizers Kristen Pauline and Adrienne Frankenfield encourage artists to feel free to bring any outside food and drink that you would like to this event. Mystery Sketch Theater is bursting at the seams so be sure to get there early, drawing tables fill up fast.The price is $5 which goes to the model and the mystery prize.

Mystery Sketch Theater

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Mystery Sketch Theater happens on the first Wednesday of every month. They now have a new home at a warehouse in Winter Park (784 Cherry St, Winter Park, FL).  I had a devil of a time finding the warehouse the first time and happened to use it’s parking lot s a place to turn around to head the other way down Cherry street. I finally saw the number above the front entry. The back loading bay door was open and that was where artists were gathered. There was no air conditioning but it had just rained and the open warehouse bay door gave us a decent cross breeze.

Moriah Beagel, the model was dressed in a pink fairy outfit. I sketched her before she took he first 30 second pose and then I sketched the artists. In all there were 10 to 15 artists. Artists in the back row probable didn’t get a clear view of Moriah’s feet. I sat on my artists stool in the loading dock doorway. The warehouse had a strange display of a rain barrel with mannequin legs inside and a torso above.

 Moriah was born And educated in Kansas, she hails from Colorado where she perfected the art of coffee. She have been posing for artists for ten years. She is currently writing short stories, posing and working as a barrista. She enjoys costume concepts that show dichotomy. Opposites drawn together. In this costume set went  for the elements of life and death. Fairies with opposite intentions. Towards the end of the modeling session Moriah changed into a much darker costume and held the skull capped walking stick. Pink and green changed to purple and black.

There was the usual themed drawing competition but I seldom compete since I am always still working on my sketch. They usually have some cool art book up for grabs. I use the breaks to keep pushing color on the page. I like the new warehouse setting, it is much grittier and industrial than working at A Comic Shop. The cost for the model was $5 and Kristen Pauline and Adrienne Frankenfield always have some treat to eat and drink. The next Mystery Sketch Theater should be July 3, 2013 from 8pm to 10:30pm, mark you calendar.

Mystery Sketch Theater

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Mystery Sketch Theater, a live model sketch session, is held on the first Wednesday of every month at A Comic Shop
114 (South Semoran Blvd. Suite 6, Winter Park). On February 6th the model will be Ivy Les Vixens. Who’s got more pink frilly things in her closet than
Ivy? Not many, and that’s why she’s back to help us Celebrate
Valentine’s Day at our February session! Ivy is the powerhouse princess pussycat, ringleader of the Les Vixens, a
post-modern burlesque experience. She thrives on glamor, go-go,
glitter & girls. With more than six years entertaining the gay
community, she has established herself as the energizer bunny of the
go-go world, with the sweat, blood and hair flips to prove it. She
performs every Saturday night at Revolution, dances at Rain on Tuesdays,
and travels the country with a multitude of different entertainers,
leaving a trail of sequins and glitter wherever she goes.

A Comic Shop recently received a restaurant license to serve food
and drinks (including wine and beer). We will no longer be able to
bring in outside food and drink (so they don’t get into trouble). Please
feel free to purchase snacks and beverages from them during our
session.


Come
early for a good seat. Those drawing tables go quickly! Sessions
cost only $5 for two hours of drawing fun and prizes, and start promptly
at 8PM at The Geek Easy, located inside of A Comic Shop: