Tattoos are an art-form that moves.
That is one of the coolest things about it.
Paintings and drawings are seen by many a person when hung in a gallery, and sometimes when shown in a private residence when the collector is social, but the audience is always limited.
Tattoos go everywhere.
People of all walks of life will view them.
Sometimes it is the only exposure to any sort of visual art a person my have besides commercial stuff meant to enchant a person into buying something.
Tattoos are also a collaborative form of art.
Usually the only commissioned art the average person will ever deal with.
Sadly most tattoos are not art, not very collaborative, and certainly nothing to get anyone’s brain working.
The ones that are art though… ah, art that moves.
Take this one for example.
The client got hold of me via emails and we worked out her idea after a bit of corresponding.
She raced these sailboats and had a particular theme in mind.
She had also seen some of my multidimensional and negative space color bomb style tattoos.
I watched a couple videos of how the boats turned in the races. She wanted a very particular type of action to be happening, but I really didn’t understand (as I don’t sail) and the videos gave me the realism of motion and perspective.
She loved my rough draft so we went with it.
She traveled from Australia so I had to do the tattoo in one session even though optimally I would have done this one in two sessions spread a month apart for healing time.
She adored it and I took a couple pictures.
The one above was the best of the pictures, and it wasn’t a good shot.
That is always a bummer for me when the client is from far away. Bad picture and I never get to see the healed product.
Sometimes though the client is very cool and sends me a pic of the healed and aged out piece.
I don’t like the look of fresh tattoos. A tattoo isn’t done until it is at least a few months old.
Look what she sent!
Dancing… art that moves!
NOTE:
If you look close there are six ships involved.
One in black and shade making the turn.
Three obviously visible in the background created with negative space.
One hidden in the waves that is very hard to see, but is actually the most detailed of the ships if you finally spot it and get a good look.
One that creates the right side boarder of the the entire tattoo and serves as a background for the black and shade boat.
In short… “Fun Stuff To Tattoo.”
