Friday 30 January 2015

Artistic Process: Hand tattoos and little things




A Scarabaeidae on a Flower of Life pattern tattooed on my friend Jonathan
A life changing tattoo

Finished up the "Sibling Rivalry" Tattoo with a Celtic Trinity Heart between the heads of the Dragon and Serpent.

Continuation of a Double Dragon Calf Wrap I've been working on... entirely by hand.
One dragon down... one to go

Start of a Nordic Wolf piece... tried to keep it a little more traditional Nordic, simple with more straight lines. Hopefully we'll be continuing with another wolf on the inside of the calf.

 
Filled a blank spot on Mikkel's arm with a Tetraskelion under the Raven we did last Summer at Lejre

Diamonds and Eight Ball get covered with a little Colinesian

Had another Marqueses inspired piece I did at least a decade ago at Lejre walk into the studio to make an appointment with our Polynesian guest artist Jean Michel Manutea. So I took the opportunity to take a few photos, as all my old ones were lost in the move and the flood 5 years back

Another Handpoked Colinesian piece I did many years back under an older armband (not my work) on a client who returned to get some Haida work

 Finished Haida Bear in one shot... hopefully he'll be back in another 10-12 years :-)

 Finally finished the Haida Tree flanked by a Couger and Wolf- Just had to add the tails which you don't see anyway under the bicep

Contra Bass heads on Birk who plays the same. 
Done only in dots.



I've been doing a lot of overtime these days... Lars and Camilla just had a baby so I'm alone in the studio and as I mostly work on larger pieces and full day sittings I usually don't even have time to press small things in during the day. As most people travelling or wanting smaller pieces don't wish to wait 6 months for an appointment I try to squeeze them in before opening, after closing or on the occasional weekend... this is an exception rather than a rule :-)

A Norwegian petroglyph and Rune on another travelling client

A couple runes to cover a couple badly done runes from someone's kitchen

A French client of my colleague Xoil wanted a Vejviser to guide him on his travels




A couple of travelling students wanting a small friendship tattoo while on Winter break.
I'm not sure of the symbolism of the Tower, but as they were from Olsztyn I couldn't help but think of Copernicus 

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