In the studio

My side of a collaboration piece with a friend. Still a work in progress.

Tattoo design for Jo with the text from one of her present tattoos round the bottom

Really need a bigger wall

Jo's half finished bird I really like.

Jo drawing some pickled animals

Supposedly it's a squirrel

A few inspirational artists

http://www.vimby.com/video/art/us/all/detail/8186/Tattoos
http://skullzpress.blogspot.com/
http://www.skullzpress.com/
http://shop.rebel8.com/

Mike Giant

http://www.salonserpent.com/Home.html

Angelique Houtkamp

Process

All thedrawings I do before coming up with a finished design are done on tracing paper so that elements I like in one drawing can easily transfered to a fresh sheet of paper. Everything is drawn backwards so that when I'm happy with the drawing on tracing paper it can be flipped over and retraced onto watercolour paper leaving me a line drawing to ink over.

The next step is too add black shading. Originally I used watercolour, but have found Indian Ink alot easier to use as it dries waterproof so other colours can't mix with it.

While working on this coffee table I found it much easier to freehand elements on rather than pre drawing then as there was such a large surface to cover. As there are alot of elements involved in the piece it was easier to draw the snake first and then add roses and skulls around it.

The full sized tattooed lady followed the same process as the coffee table, of drawing larger designs on first and then adding smaller designs around them as filler.

February

Russian Doll design for a friends tattoo. The cloak is inspired by the Lady of Guadalupe colouring.

"True Love"

"Partners In Crime"

"Life Is Not Worth Living Without Your Dreams"

"Knock Out Girl"

"No Place Like Home"

"Black Cross"

Gallery

Showing 2 pieces in Factotum tattoo studio, 5 St Johns Maddermarket. Each is selling for £20 pounds framed. Nice to have my work my work showing in a tattoo shop environment and around artists with a similar style and inspiration.

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'Real lady and tattooed lady'

To see me out of 2009 and wrap the years work up was the 'Insert Clever Title Here'. Featuring works from Jo Watmore, Gemma Goodwin and myself. The exhibition went on for a week on the 1st floor print landing at Norwich art school. People coming up the stairs were greeted by a life size tattooed girl which was the focal point on my work. Also featured was a coffee table with designs on and a series of framed watercolour designs.

Ink drawings

And now a few ink drawings. All my watercolour colours pieces go through this phase of being line drawings and then having black ink shading added before the watercolours.

'Rose'

'Romeo done'

'Moustache flash'

'Girl 3'

Watercolours

'Snake'

'Rose and cross'

'Punch drunk'

'Like a lion'

'Our lady of Guadalupe'

'Hush, lush, mush'

'Homeward bound'

'Hey little rich girl'

'Hands and skull'

'Girl Head 3'

'Girl head'

'Frog'

'Fortune favours the brave'

'Flash'

'Diamond and roses'

'Candy skull'

'Butterfly'

'Birdie'

A selection of watercolour pieces from the last year.