London Tattoo Convention 2007
Finally I had a chance to attend a tattoo convention, I dreamed about it for over 6 months. Some of the worlds best artist were there, artists that I admire and who's work I would take on any time.
Some of my favorites were: Paul Booth, Filip Leu, Shige,Dan Simmons, Robert Hernandes, Liorcifer, TinTin...
Pictured here is an artist Horiren, one of the few Japanese female tattoo artists. She is self taught and used to be mural painter. Here she does traditional Tebori tattooing, which is a hand poking technique.
Time in the convention went really fast and I wouldn't have minded staying there for the three days it was on. I managed to control myself and only got myself a t-shirt, nothing to do with my prettier side being there as well, honest.
Check
Flickr for images.
Labels: convention, london, tattoo, tebori
Butchershop
Till Krautkramer of CheapTattooRemoval has created an original style for his art. He takes pictures of tattooed body parts and makes them look like they have been butchered. I think its interesting and wouldn't mind having a picture like this on my wall. In the butchershop you can also buy merchandise like bag with the images, I loove the finger mug.
http://cheaptattooremoval.net/Labels: art, body, butcher, tattoo
Realism
There is something truly magical in tattoos. The present skills that are being applied into skin are from a different world compared to 20 years ago. My adventures in this fascinating world started over 10 years ago, and some of my best friends were apprenticing. At that time Finland were more or less hill billies in tattoo world as far as I consider it. No true talents existed in Finland.
But ten years is a long time. And now I can say that some of the best come from Finland when I look at this tattoo by Petri Syrjälä. Today I consider him the best animal portrait tattooist in the world. His work is absolutely unbelievable.
See more of Syrjälä's work in
http://www.tattooart.fi/Labels: realism, tattoo, tiger
Skull Project
I have this strange fascination toward skulls. For some reason I quite like the idea of a skull on my skin, and this new book that's coming out makes me tingle about getting it.
Behold Matthew Amey's Skull project. Amey took 151 contour-line drawings of a human skull from his earlier skull reference book, and sent a page to artists around the world asking them to draw or paint their interpretation of the skull. The result is an array of metamorphoses, skulls in unimaginable beauty.
If you dont like skull, go and have a look anyway, those images are truly a work of art. Check
Skull ProjectLabels: art, skull, tattoo
