Posted by resonanteye on 05/18/2013
Spent the day scanning things, drawing. And relisted a few things on etsy. And then planted out the garden, the rest of it.
I got a few images of healed tattoo work I’ve done from some clients I love very much. Here’s a few of those…
Here’s a few of the things for sale (originals)…I’ll have some new stuff coming too later this week!
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Posted by resonanteye on 12/31/2012
I know my work isn’t all tiny bits, easy to use for flash. I hope if you hang it in the shop it gives people some expansive ideas, though.
It was incredibly fun to draw all of these, so really I have already been paid, in GOOD TIMES!
(sets available here in limited numbers.)
(actually, if you go here you can order just one of the sheets instead of the full set if you like.)
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Posted by resonanteye on 09/10/2012
Finished a family crest tattoo today. He had the center (bird part) started about four years ago, by a different artist. I did the filigree and background…
I also repaired a tattoo his wife had done years ago, as well.
I overslept this morning, and missed my first appointment, with one of my favorite people. When I saw her I apologized- “I’m sorry I overslept.” She replied, “I went to a chili party and rode in a helicopter.”
Ok, I am not sorry! Because that sounds awesome.
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Posted by resonanteye on 08/29/2012
I have dates set up for the second leg of tour.
Oct 10-19, I will be in Phoenix! Contact me by email for times/art/appointments. I have a lot of regular clients there, so my openings are very limited.
Oct 21-24, I will be in Dumas, Texas at Texas Inkslingers!
You can either call the shop there, or visit their facebook to find out their hours, or email me for more specifics.
Oct 27-30 I will be in Nakatosh Louisiana. Again, I have some clients there so get a hold of me soon, as my open time will be pretty limited. You can contact me by email, or the shop there for more information.
These dates are pretty solid, unless I have some kind of major road-catastrophe this is the itinerary for the trip so far.
East coast dates will be in a later post!
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Posted by resonanteye on 08/26/2012
I worked on a good friend today. I like spontaneous tattoos a lot.
There’s something to be said for the energy that builds up when you talk over an idea, do the art together, find reference, and then tattoo- all in one day. It’s my favorite way to work, really- with the client right there, hanging out the whole time.
This is Chicken’s cack.
Chicken is an old friend. He’s covered in no-nos, tattoos that are funny or offensive. He came in to get tattooed with no idea what we ought to work on (he is, like me, running out of space!) so we sat down and started throwing ideas around. He doesn’t have a cock tattoo, so noticing that the front of his leg below the knee was empty it was the first thing that popped into my mind – both as something that’d suit him, and something I’d really enjoy drawing. He asked me to make sure it was damn serious and kinda pissed, so I did.
We looked up a ton of photographs of the actual animal, so that I could get a good feel for the body structure and feather patterns on these guys. Our piercer, Tigger, showed me some photos of Aurmarca(spelling?) roosters, too- very simple and direct colors on these guys. Red, brownish-yellow, and a greeny-black iridescence.
All in all, a fun start for a big giddy tattoo.
I’ll be at the shop tomorrow too- it’s the tail end of the slow season here. Next month I will likely be busy tattooing, but for right now I have the time to work on some close friends and colleagues, which is a nice segue back to regular working hours from camping season!
(note, this cack is about halfway done. we still have to do the tail, wing, and background.)
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Posted by resonanteye on 07/28/2012
When I started tattooing, anyone I saw with large, visible work was very nearly guaranteed to be someone who was in my tribe. I don’t mean tribe in the sense that we shared every opinion, but that we shared the expectation of being considered somewhat beyond the margins of the common, outside the mainstream, someone who was not acceptable in mixed company. We were subversive. I could look at someone, see their work, and know they were on my side of that equation.
Because of this, I felt a connection to everyone I worked on. I could open up to them, exchange ideas and energy with them, and really bond. We both knew, after all, what it was like to be outcast, to be strange, to be the “Other”.
That has changed. Now, at work, I block energy. I try to keep things light, and a bit distant. I only can connect like this after I have worked on someone a few times and gotten to know them. There are exceptions, of course. But the exceptions are indeed exceptional.
I don’t think that my own approach to my work can change this. I can educate people about getting better tattoos, but the kind of life experience and wisdom that a tattoo used to signify is NOT something that can be bought, or sold.
You have to earn it in your own life, with your own bitter tears. Nobody can give it to you in a few hours for a few hundred dollars. Not even me.
I don’t advertise myself as a “shaman” or healer of any kind. I am aware that at times I am performing healing work, that for some, the process itself is ritual and meaningful. Tattoos are incredibly meaningful and important- but they’re not necessary. I don’t think I could live up to the responsibility implied by the word “healer”. I’m not an actual priestess. But I try very hard to let that energy exist in my work when I feel that it’s possible.
It’s just possible a lot less often these days.
I think this shift in expectations, from then til now, has made me more withdrawn, more reclusive. I know that I am harder to reach for tattoos now than I ever have been before. That the process of getting me to tattoo you is more difficult, more drawn-out. That I no longer am in a hurry.
I think it is a good thing. I think I do better at the tattoos that I make now, than I have before. And I think it makes me more able to connect with my clients than I had been recently.
Just rambling. xox
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