The Dr. is dead. but the drawing lives on.

I spent yesterday inking and coloring my drawings from the now ended Dr. Sketchy's Toronto. It made me realize how much I'm going to miss drawing exciting people on a regular basis.

Mena Von Fleisch
and her twin passengers

Billy Black

Obskyura

Mina LaFleur

Christabel

Pyromeo
dressed as Krampus for our Christmas session
wich was our last session.

There were a lot of fantastic models that I didn't get the chance to draw during our 4 year run.
I still want to draw them, but for now I'm keeping it low key
My friend J. and I will be privately sketching as many exciting models we can get our hands on.
The fact that so far our list of potential models, consists of only super hot guys, doesn't seem bother either of us.

Me & J.
reference photo taken from a photo shoot by Greg Wong a.k.a Wrong Note Rusty

New sketches

more fightclub girls
painted on oval mat board
they're really small
so far it takes me about a day to finish one.
that might just be because I'm easily distracted.

gearing up for new paintings

These are the sketches for a new group of paintings.

and some pics from the reference photo shoot.

Undressed

"Undressed" - Art of the Figure
August 27th - 29th
Sunnyside Pavilion
1755 Lakeshore blvd

what do I mean I've never done nudes?! shit!

I was approached a couple weeks ago, to be in a show at the end of August at Sunnyside Pavilion.
the title of the show is "Undressed" and they asked specifically for nudes.
I said yes immediately and then went home and realized that I didn't have any nudes, in fact I had never painted nudes before.
I pictured what I thought an art show of nudes would consist of - mainly tasteful nudes of white women. I was a bit board at the thought of it, and I realized that I wanted to draw men. Men as colorful as I could get my hands...uh...brush on.
I decided that instead of embarrassing myself and possibly my models, that I wouldn't use my regular models. I'd find models experienced at being naked. Luckily I know a whole slue of attractive people who make it their business to get naked.
I wound up with two very beautiful men, Kendal and Patrick, both members of Boylesque TO,
and my friend Greg, another member of Boylesque, who offered up his loft building, lighting kit, and photography knowhow. This Neapolitan Ice cream combination of boys gave me the images I needed to get to work.

...and I'm still working.
The image below was painted last night after hurling a painting of a naked man across the room in frustration. I complained to Brett that I needed a break from painting naked men, he checked my forehead to see if I was running a fever.


Today I'm back to painting men. Images coming soon. Art show coming sooner. Aaaagh!

100

http://www.katherine-piro.com/100.html


Emergency Fund Raiser!

100 original drawings 4"x6" drawn over 13 days.

On display Thursday June 24th
at 306 Gladstone ave 2nd floor.
5pm to 10pm

All pieces will be framed and are all selling for $20

If you would like to pre-buy any of them please email despotovich(at)gmail.com
a small paypal charge will apply, and shipping is extra.

Any work is left over at the end of the show will be burned!

I have new work on show now at Perival Gallery

These are two of the paintings I sent up to Perivale gallery this year.
I finished them just before they were taken up there
so I never had any time to step back and look at them.
unfortunately everything was so rushed
that I wasn't able to get them properly photographed either.
but you can still get a sense of them.