guest post by Josh Ellingson
Once a month, 111 Minna Gallery off of Second Street in San Francisco transforms into a gigantic makeshift studio for “Sketch Tuesdays”. It’s a live-sketching event and a great way to score artwork directly from local artists at great prices. Seating for monthly guest-sketchers is provided in the center of the room, marked with chalk name-plates. In addition to general boozing and schmoozing, attendees are invited to sketch along as well. The wealth of creativity is astonishing, and the deals are just too good to pass up. This month’s all-star line up included talents such as Mike Giant, Skinner, Ferris Plock, and Nate Van Dyke. I headed out to 111 Minna to cover the event and snag some affordable artwork. DJs Jay Howell (yes, even the DJs are artists) and Ruthie kept the hits flowing while I bumbled through the throngs of art fans. Here’s the photographic evidence:
Special thanks to Emily Lakin (@hazelbrown) for photographic assistance.
Artists Aiyana Udesen and Matt Furie.
Artist Mike Giant
Last Gasp Publisher Ron Turner never misses Sketch Tuesdays
Artist Nate Van Dyke
I picked up this piece from artist Jessie Balmer after recognizing the Carl Sagan quote from the popular remix video, “A Glorious Dawn”. Apparently we’ve both been humming the tune all week.
There are more photos in my Flickr set here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/josh1/sets/72157622364246359/
More information about Sketch Tuesdays can be found at 111 Minna’s website.
photos by Josh Ellingson
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There is an event in Chicago called Atomic Sketch that happens and I think was actually inspired by this one. Incredible how many people are there.
atomic sketch was indeed inspired by sketch tuesday! my two friends and i have a number of friends that now live in san francisco, manifest destiny and such. one of our friends drops in at sketch tuesday quite often. one month we were out visiting and were able to attend a sketch tuesday at minna. needless to say we were pretty impressed and knowing that nothing like it happens in chicago we decided to start our own. it has grown quite a bit in the 15 months we’ve been doing it. we’re really happy with how it’s shaking out. we’ve even branched out of chicago! an artist from florida is running an atomic sketch event in jacksonville and we have some friends in new orleans and san diego trying to get a monthly event together as well.
but none of this would have been possible without sketch tuesday, which i try to plan my trips out west around so i can catch it when i’m in town.