Flash Your Tattoo

I have never heard of this type of medium and was just looking for celtic related art when I stumbled upon it – castpaper. This particular artist, Kevin Dyer, has a page that describes the process in addition to having some beautiful pieces like this Celtic Love Knot piece. His earlier career originated as a street artist painting the occasional wall mural. (continue reading…)

Big Tattoo Convention coming up in June in Long Beach California. It has one of the most professional advertisement campaigns I’ve ever seen for a tattoo show. They are combining a Kustom Hot Rod and Bike show along with it. (continue reading…)

Tattoo Conventions are lots of fun and good way to mix with people of our own kind – ink sinking lovers! – Here is a link to Tattoos.com’s page of conventions broken down by location. (continue reading…)

Photoshop is the best image enhancing software on the market and has been for quite some time. People are able to render great special effects – the only limitation is technical skill and imagination. This example from the site is the work of a 25 year old graphic designer from Melbourne, Austrailia – Justin Maller. Visit Justin’s site to see more of his work.

One of the best parts of running a site that is open to suggestions, is the interesting and talented people that contact me. I get email from people all over the world. Which is how I learned about Rob Koss who sent me some of his work. He is one of 3 talented artists that work at XXX Tattoo – the other artists, Soeren Sangkuhl, Werner Businger. (continue reading…)

Joy Rumore is a young talented artist that at the very young age of 28 opened her own shop – Twelve 28 Tattoo, named after her birthday. I read an interview by her and it was surprising to hear about the issues a female tattoo artist runs into from male as well as female artists. (continue reading…)