Flash Your Tattoo

Found a new goth doll blog site – NewAged Dolls. I actually feel this doll maker may have gone a little past goth and into a Stephen King novel. The kicker was it was a commissioned order filled by this talented Canadian artist, Jade Perez, which is adorned with a tattoo on it’s chest as well as a tattoo gun clutched in it’s little doll hand. Jade says “I love horror, blood and scary things.”… The doll was a gift to the buyer’s tattoo artist. (continue reading…)

I really wrote about an icon in the tattoo industry, Shanghi Kate, also known as the grandmother of tattoos.  She is a talented and respected tattoo sixty six year old artist that recently had a bad fall resulting in a shattered leg.  She has been tattooing since 1971 and has tattooed celebrities such as Howard Stern, Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Jackdaw, David LaChapelle, Casey Affleck, during her career.  I just wanted to bring some attention to the fund raiser started to help Kate pay her crazy expensive health bills.  (continue reading…)

Don’t you hate it when someone is not only lucky to have one talent but these lucky ones have 2 or more talents that the rest of us regular folk drool and envy over. Chris Garcia is one of those people. Not only has the man proven himself as a talented tattoo artist, his original career was spent working on the space program for NASA. His life began in the Philippines were his pursuit of an apprenticeship ended in failure – but as fate would have it – his family eventually landed in Virginia. Chris’s tattooing career began in earnest. You can see from these two examples of his work, that Chris has a knack for realism and portrait work – probably the most difficult of styles. The ironic and sad thing is Garcia has a heart condition that prevents him from being tattooed. (continue reading…)

Even though Taylor Cort has been a tattoo artist for less than 5 years you could never tell that from the high quality work he punches out  His work is detailed and his shop is known for it’s custom work with almost no flash adorning the walls.   Now that he has opened up his shop, Mutiny Tattoo (located in Asheville North Carolina), he is now focusing his artwork on publishing books of his drawings.  The man lives and breathes art.  His first book is published and available on his Myspace page and he says he’s already working on the next 2 art books. His portrait work is top notch as well as his color work.   (continue reading…)

Well it’s just going to be one of those weeks – found another talented dark doll artist by the name of Kamila Mlynarczyk.  Each doll is one of a kind and completely hand made.  Her styles are Victorian and antique in style. The dolls are fascinating and so odd.  Her sculptures range from mermaids and zombies  to conjoined twins.  It’s difficult to discern the size of some of her dolls.  (continue reading…)

Bernette Rudolph is a Brooklyn sculptor who has incorporated her interest in tattoo art with her wood sculptors.  Before embarking on the combination, she did research of different tattoo styles by visiting tattoo studios and attending conventions and watching and observing various styles.  One of her favorites are tribal designs as you can see in this sculptur of Eve.  Her sculptros run from a realistic style to an abstract body shape style.  (continue reading…)