March

Baby Steps

Tiger

Legs

Candy Skulls

Skull

Keeping it in the family

Tiger

Sweetheart, dead girl.

My first commission for my boss at work.

Tiny skull. The size of a 50p.

Skull

True Love Russian Doll for mate. Going to be swapped for a nice bird of prey painting.

Along with this Gypsy girl .

Logo for Lady Fest

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.