September 19th 2010 - Bike Fanatic

This Sunday, Cabaret Life Drawing welcomes bike enthusiast and stilt-walker, Beth Godshall!

Beth is a bike FANATIC! She has her own pedicab business in which drunk people are biked around downtown Louisville to the wee hours of the morning. She also one of those nutso people who
think it's extremely fun to bicycle across the United States just for the heck of it. The outfit she is wearing in the picture is a stilt walking costume(another side job of hers) that she created out of bicycle parts
and bicycle tubes. She lives with her cat, who she snuck out of Mongolia...a very long, exciting story.

September 12th 2010 - Yoga Instuctor

This Sunday, professional yoga instructor Nicole Soteropoulos will flex, bend, and hold a series of poses that are guaranteed to stretch your drawing skills!

Nicole Soteropoulos is a compassionate and challenging teacher. She came to yoga to cope with physical injuries and pain but what she found was a rich tradition steeped in love. Yoga focuses on the body, mind and spirit as a whole. Nicole embraces both her current and past physical challenges to allow her to have a profound understanding of pain and a deep compassion for her students. Nicole enjoys working with all populations of people and especially excels working with individuals that have injuries and beginning students.

August 29th 2010 - Hippie/Raver Chick

Update: A photo and some artwork from Shannon's session as a Space Cowgirl!

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This Sunday, Shannon Rumpke will beam your drawing practice to planet Intergalactic Cowgirl!....Its sure to be a fun ride!

Shannon is a Louisville native, hippie/raver chick, with a dynamic - but easy going - personality. Her look is quirky and dichotomous...for instance, she is playing with a Space Cowgirl Pin-Up theme at the moment. Her athletic, petite frame works really well for pin-up style poses; and is small but curvy! She loves yoga, and has the physical strength to hold poses for the duration.

August 22nd 2010 - Exotic Dancer

Update: Photos from Ami and Elijah Bishop's set.

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This Sunday, exotic dancer Ami Burton will sizzle your drawing practice with her fun and provocative poses!

For the past three years, Ami has worked as an exotic dancer. Her work as a dancer has helped her to become very limber, allowing her to cultivate moves that are animated, twisted, and yoga-inspired.

August 15th 2010 - Acrobatic Contortionist

This Sunday, acrobatic contortionist Andrew Goedicke will razzle-dazzle your drawing practice with his Cirque du Soleil- style!
 
For the past 13 years, Andrew has trained in various circus arts including: aerial silks, hand balancing, gymnastics, trapeze,contortion, and dance. He currently preparing for an audition in Montreal for the National Circus School (closely affiliated with Cirque du Soleil). Along with this experience, he has a degree in fine art and is a licensed teacher. An artist himself, Andrew works in various mediums, preferably mixed media.

August 8th 2010 - Art Model as Bond Girl

Update: Photos from this past Sunday.
Our model Sarah in the one long pose (about 35 minutes)



I took some poorly lit photos of the other artists work at the end during our "show and tell". Although the artwork is not well represented by these grainy images - it is exciting to get other artists work on the blog!
First our guest moderator, Neil Callander:


And then some nice work from the other artists (please email if you want your work credited) whose names I did not get.

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This Sunday, Sarah McCollum will model a la Bond-Girl, Ursula Andress! Enjoy a day at the beach...Bond-style!


Sarah is an experienced art model from the Louisville area. She is also an avid artist herself - writing and illustrating her own comics, designing and creating jewelry and clothing, as well as costuming and makeup artistry work for various theatrical productions.

Just for fun here is a link to a search for "Bond Girls" on The Drawing Club's excellent blog - their blog is an inspiration for this one and the photos and art there may help get your imagination going!

This week is Shark Week on Discovery network - on the Lexington KY Comic Creators Group blog we are having a drawing challenge based on this theme. Please feel free to contribute to the CCG online collective if you like!

2010/08/01 - Acrobatic Contortionist

Update: Some photos and artwork from last Sunday. Artists please send in your artwork! Email me if you need help - we will set up a Flickr group where you can upload your own images.

Potter Coe, photos:

Thirty Second Poses:

Twenty minute pose:




Here's some artwork

Jonathan Gilpin

One minute poses:

Five minute poses:

Twenty minute pose:

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This Sunday, STRETCH your drawing skills with Bethan Kannapell, an Acrobatic Contortionist and circus production director !


Bethan has performed and directed circus productions around the country and is a member of the Circus Performance Group at Warren Wilson College. She recently directed her own circus production with 35 performers about a journey across the world told through folklore. See one of her recent performances here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5SCC4vazgs