fishies and lotus flowers!
added on to this piece today. we started down by her knee 8 years ago! today we covered up some snakes on her back. I didn’t take a before photo, I usually don’t.
paul’s tree!
it’s finally finished! two heavy sessions is all it took.
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High Priestess downtown days!
I get so homesick. It’s been a great few days so far and there’s a few more on the way though!
art show at the Cowfish in Eugene!
I could say so much more about today and tonight if I wasn’t so tired!
Spent the day stretching nine foot by six foot canvasses with the help of the wonderful Deb, then hung everything with the help of the magical Shawn, then lots of my favorite people showed up to check it all out… I’m just going to post photos of the process and the day and night. This show is hanging at Cowfish until the end of October, if you are in the neighborhood feel free to drop in and stand next to the gigantic bear.
deb’s math
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Three projects at a time
black-eyed kids
I’m back east in Spokane for a few weeks. In the time I’m here, I have to:
- finish the illustrations for the Horrors expanded edition, and write the text, and get it to the publisher
- finish writing the handout material for the seminar I’m teaching at the Portland Tattoo Expo
- glaze and prep, and make from scratch as well, enough large-scale predatory animal paintings to fill the gallery I have a show at for October in Eugene
- and also, pack and get ready to tattoo in Eugene, at the convention, and then Phoenix.
I leave October 1st and I won’t get home until the 26. It’s going to be a long trip full of events and work!
Here are some photos- small images from the new book. A picture or two of the seminar prep work (kinda boring to look at but the seminar itself will be out of this goddamn world, you should go preregister for it, because it’ll cost a little more if you just show up on the day)- and pictures of the lifesized predators.
Now, I had some of this work done from before- the seminar text I had written already, but not the slideshow or the handouts. I had the illustrations sketched, but in pencil and messy, not inked or scanned. I had copious notes for the book text but nothing completed or proofread. I had the shark nearly finished and the grolar bear and wolf sketched out as underpaintings. But everything else? I’ve had to work every day I’ve been home, sometimes pulling ten hour days on these projects. Not to mention I have another show going on all this month at a gallery in Seattle! I spent last month’s days off prepping for that.
Once I leave, I have no days off until halfway through the month. And then I will spend those days driving.
It’s going to be a long and rough road until November, but I think I can do it all. Then I can relax for two weeks. Then I’ll be in Seattle at the shop there for two weeks…and then I will not be working in December. Like, at all. Maybe on personal little things but NO big projects like this. It’ll be a nice break and I think my brain will need it by then.
Hope to see you guys at one of my stops on this trip!
(I’m totally booked for the trip for tattoos- except for one day in Redding, and one day in Phoenix. If nobody wants in I’m gonna take those days off, though. !!!)
jersey devil
deerwoman
a short break
seminar stuff
running on fumes?
geometric tattooing, discussion question and thoughts.
let’s discuss.
Geometric tattoos and “mandalas”, while they’re in resurgence in every part of the globe right now among modern tattooers, are a very old way of marking the body.
Given new technologies, they’re different than traditional geometric work, but do they follow that same tradition? Is this really a trend within tattooing, or has it been there since the beginning? Do you think we will see more of this in the years to come, or will it peter out (like westernized tribal work has petered out a bit)?
These geometric designs aren’t limited to one region, race, or culture- from the far north of europe and the arctic circle all the way around the globe, equatorial and islands, jungles and deserts- straight down to the southern tips of Africa and the Americas, these sort of designs are found everywhere. Most modern interpretations draw on multiple sources, new and old, and don’t snag directly from any one tradition, don’t appropriate meaning the way some westernized tribal art did. (Although there are exceptions as always). Almost every person can look back to their own heritage and find base images to begin working from- or they can use modern maths to create something entirely new, that fits within this style.
I’ve been planning a few art brut tattoos lately, using this sort of layout for the body forms, and have done my share of geometry and radial symmetry tattoos as well. I’m wondering what everyone thinks of this little surge in demand for these.
Also here are some amazing images culled from various sources, of tattooing in this style. Feel free to add your own images or thoughts in the comments.
Miahwaska Tattoo Artist – Oakland, CA
Mianmar woman
ancient Pict
Traditional Croatian Catholic Tattoo
Roxx at 2Spirit Tattoo in San Francisco
Kalinga tribal tattoo artist Whang-Od. Photo via Lars Krutak.
by Nate Euvrard @ Secret Society
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,
to schedule time at High Priestess, in PA, or at conventions, use this link: http://resonanteye.net/consultation-process-starts-here/
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).
