another few days at high priestess in eugene!
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!
finished massive flash sheets, ear weights from this month.
22×30″ 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.
set I’m working on- 1/2″ saba wood with glass, oak, and maple beads, silk threadwrapping, and copper-wrapped hand polished agates.
the trouble with white.
in the process of setting up for a white ink tattoo.
White ink on the hands.
Plenty of tattooers won’t even do this. For good reason, too! White ink does not heal white. It heals slightly lighter than the skin tone, and often unevenly. It ends up looking a bit like a pale scar, nearly invisible.
Most tattoo artists who will do tattoos in white-ink-only, will not guarantee it, do a free touchup, after it heals. It’s acknowledged that it will not look right when it heals. There’s a very, very rare person for whom it heals and looks ok- but that person is truly rare. I’ve only ever met one, in 16 years of using white alone in tattoos.
All that said, I will do white-ink-only tattoos. And I’ll even do one free touchup, just like with any other tattoo. BUT, I try to make it really clear that it’ll never heal just right, never look perfect. That it’s going to fade into a pale hint of a tattoo, like a scar. Barely there, and that this is likely to happen unevenly, too.
Here are two matching tattoos, freshly tattooed with white-ink-only.
floral piece in progress
work in progress. This is our second sitting on these flowers! And no, I didn’t do the sharknado, sadly enough.
paper planes, baobabs, and poppy dreams.
healed.
detail
SO. MUCH. FUN.
fun stuff!
a repair, and a sun.
repair- during process, and after.
black and grey and white
on any given tuesday
Sometimes I like the small, simple tattoos the best.
I also did some more painting today.
Now I’m off for a week- I’ll be posting a few articles and some art, too.
mandorlas
I prefer this shape to the commonly-seen circular mandala art. These are for clients, please don’t steal them/get them tattooed, ask your artist to draw one that’s different, just for you.
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