Seminar at Portland Tattoo Expo, sunday Oct 11!

EPSON MFP imageI’ll be teaching a seminar at the PDX expo in October!

Click through here for more info and to sign up. Bring notepad, pen/pencil, phone or tablet, and questions when you show up for the class. Counts for two hours of continuing education!

Leveraging Social Media to Sell Art Online, for Tattooers

Learn to use social media properly — without compromising your copyright. We’ll cover print-on-demand services, pros and cons of social media use, networking as a strategy to find collectors, consolidating your media management, and getting more reach with your work online.

This class relates to the sale of secondary mediums beyond tattooing, and will go over the relationship between your existing client base and the collectors who will buy your work on paper rather than skin.

schedule updates winter 2015/16

In the permanent collection of the Museum of Unfine Art, Eugene, Oregon

UPCOMING SCHEDULE AND EVENTS:

New Horrors coloring book release, available here. Signings and coloring party coming soon!

Totem animals will be hanging for sale- handpainted giclee prints, at Vittles, 2320 2nd Ave Seattle (Belltown)- all through December!

Art show, “Future History”, at Club Tattoo in Scottsdale AZ feb. 21!

Eugene, Oregon, at High Priestess downtown- postponed– march 7-14

Seattle, at Laughing Buddha, postponed– march 12-20

Evergreen Tattoo Convention, in Springfield Oregon, March 4-6

Botanical art show, ‘Rights to Spring’,  at Americana, Seattle, April 2016.

One Nation Under Ink Convention, in Shelton WA, April 8-10

Guest spot at Abaddon Tattoo, PA, August 17-24.

Possible conventions: Seattle (august?) and Vegas (fall?).

To schedule time in Seattle, please contact the shop:
Laughing Buddha Tattoo and Body Piercing,
t
o schedule time at High Priestess, in PA, or at conventions, use this link: http://resonanteye.net/consultation-process-starts-here/

 

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I’m not taking art commission requests at this time, but you can still find prints at this link, and originals listed in the shop here (link up top in the menu).

Working on the 20-year-plus piercers with Doug the Dino!

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THESE GUYS WERE A BLAST!
I worked on them at Club Tattoo, which was awesome. Super nice shop. Clean and friendly, everyone there was awesome and helpful, nice to me and kidding around with my dinosaurs.
The dino is named Doug. What a great day.

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One Nation Under Ink convention, Lincoln City Oregon- the Chinook Winds.

Day one!

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day two!

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day three!

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I think this is an illegal picture. But I smoked a cigarette and it was indoors. That’s illegal too but not in THIS PLACE which was an awesome place. (I have no idea how to gamble)

day one- evergreen tattoo convention.

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finished massive flash sheets, ear weights from this month.

22x30" sheet of flash for tattoos, I did this to bring to the evergreen convention.

22×30″ sheet of flash for tattoos, I did this to bring to the evergreen convention.

22x30" sheet of flash for tattoos, I did this to bring to the evergreen convention.

22×30″ sheet of flash for tattoos, I did this to bring to the evergreen convention.

new set, these are for sale at laughing buddha in seattle. 7/16" saba wood with oak and nut dangling on silk wrapping.

new set, these are for sale at laughing buddha in seattle. 7/16″ saba wood with oak and nut dangling on silk wrapping.

set I'm working on- 1/2" saba wood with glass, oak, and maple beads, silk threadwrapping, and copper-wrapped hand polished agates.

set I’m working on- 1/2″ saba wood with glass, oak, and maple beads, silk threadwrapping, and copper-wrapped hand polished agates.

making gigantic sheets of flash.

1959412_10152705788832712_1722891796360266568_nSince I’ll be working a convention in early March, I’ve been going through all my unused sketches, drawings, tattoo flash collection, and sketchpads and assembling some big sheets of flash to bring along. I want to make it possible for people to look around at a bunch of things and pick something; to let people be spontaneous, and to give them ideas. So I’ve been doing this rather than putting a ton of smaller drawings in books to flip through.

These big sheets are pretty common in tattooing. We call them porkchop sets or pick and sticks, flash wallpaper. When a tattoo artist wants to do a bunch of small-to-medium sized things in a short time, they’ll often be using a sheet like this for people to choose a design from. You can see them pretty often when shops do a friday the 13th sale, or events similar to that.

(if you like something you see, hit me up at the evergreen convention. I’ll have these with me and be ready to roll! or email me, too.)

The evolution of tattoo culture

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To understand the current popularity of tattoo art in the US and Europe, it is important to know a little bit about its past.

Tattooing is one of the oldest art forms known to exist. The oldest preserved human skin ever found is decorated with tattoos that were done during life. It is used as a form of expression in the majority of the world’s cultures, and has been used for many purposes throughout history. In the last century in the West, it has been less common than in other parts of the world and in previous times. Recently, there has been a resurgence in its popularity.

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tattoo convention! ink traveler’s photos.

ink travelers tattoo conventionink travelers tattoo conventionHere are some pictures from the tattoo convention, what a great time!

Thanks to my clients who sat so well this weekend, and everyone who bought some of my art, I really had a great time chatting with everyone and talking shop. xox

more after the jump.

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Franky!

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did this at the Portland expo today.

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