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15 books that will change the way you tattoo (for the better)

4th of November 2014

In artwork, collaborative work, drawing, female tattoo artist, geek, how-to, learning, motivation, posts with links in them, posts with lists in them, questions, reviews, step by step, Tattoo Advice, tattooing,

owlbooks There are a lot of great books on art out there, and I’m bound to miss a lot in my list. These are just books I have found incredibly helpful in my work, and which I refer to often.

These are not books of reference images (although I did come up in the time before google images took over, and every shop had its own reference library on site…I still can’t part with all those books!)

These are, instead, books about art in general, about art techniques, or about being an artist that I think apply very well to tattooing. If you have favorites that I do not list, please add a comment and link me to them! I read voraciously and love to find new sources of knowledge.

At least a few of these are free on kindle/ebooks, most are cheap, one or two are pricey, all are available and not rare.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
~J. M. Whistler

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originals are up for the holidays!

3rd of November 2014

In art, artwork, holidays, money, original art, original drawings, painting, posts with links in them, stuff for sale, you,

floral watercolor original I’m listing originals. Everything I have on hand is being put up until the holidays, here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/resonanteyes

I won’t be doing this again for a while, so get em while they’re hot.
All of these will be for sale through january 15. If you want them by the holidays, order before december 12, though.

(prints and all my other things can be had at THIS page, right here.)

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anniversary.

31st of October 2014

In you,

more tomorrow.

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book signing and coloring contest!

30th of October 2014

In art, coloring book, events, you,

We had a good time, two prizes were won, and all these pages got colored!
You can still pick up the book in person at Laughing Buddha, or you can order one online here.

Thanks to my instafriend Jon and his sweet lady for being so awesome that they won the prizes, and to everyone else who sat and colored with me! xox

Here are some photos from the night, and some pictures people have colored from the book itself.
(the jackalope? he’s in the second expanded edition, just you wait)

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first tattoos, small tattoos.

30th of October 2014

In you,

can I just say that I absolutely love doing someone’s first tattoo. I become part of their life story in such a huge way, doing that. I love working on my big regular clients, on collectors, and on people who do tattoos. but I also LOVE people who are just dipping their toes in for the first time.
they have a lot of trust in me. they’re not only trusting me with the art, like anyone does-they’re trusting me to initiate then into this whole new mode of expression, a new way to think about themselves and their bodies.

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Wicked evil psycho awesome clown

29th of October 2014

In art,

This is not from a movie, book, or comic. I drew this.

Ten years ago, we did this small tattoo on her wrist, I used her wristbone as the nose of the clown.
Today, she came back again and we did this wicked, evil, psycho clown above it on the inside of her arm. I had fun drawing it and I had EVEN MORE fun tattooing it. Holy shit did I ever have fun with this one.