Oh we do like to be beside the seaside…
Our pick of nautical themed tattoos. Show us yours!
The UK’s 4th Annual Female Tattoo Artist Show
The Female Tattoo Artist Show is a small and intimate convention packed with an array of different female artists and performers from across the UK. The event will be filled with live music, burlesque acts, fire shows and, of course, tattoos! This is the 4th year that the show has been held at The Assembly and we can’t wait!
We’re most looking forward to seeing Grace Neutral, cover star of Issue 6 The Modification Issue, Anna Garvey and Keely Rutherford. There are many more amazing artists who can add to your tattoo collection: see the full artist list here.
Come and visit us at the Things&Ink stand! See you all there!
Extreme Tattoos
Photograph by Mark Leaver as part of his Facial Tattoo Project
Fifty-eight-year-old Keith Gordon claims that it is his OCD that has pushed him into tattoo addiction. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder has ruled him all his life and it is this condition that has driven him to have his whole head tattooed.
At seventeen he had his shoulders and arms tattooed but changed his mind, he chose to have painful skin grafts to remove his teenage ink.
In the last five years Keith has spent almost £15k not only having his tattoos redone but adding more to his body and face.
Watch the short video to hear his story.
More details at news.uk.msn.com
Get the tattooed look – fake it
Want to get the tattooed look without going under the needle?
Now you can with a wide range of fake tattoo options…
Want sleeves but don’t want the hours of pain? Easy, just wear fake tattoo sleeves, made from skin-coloured light sheer material covered in stereoypical tattoo designs. These are a cheap alternative too, selling at practically the price of five minutes of tattooing. Highstreet store River Island stocks them for ‘the man about town’.
Transfer Tattoos are no longer a confined to the bottom of sweet boxes and freebies you found in cereal but are a fashion trend. American website Tattly sells designs ranging from pretty flowers to inspirational quotes.
For ladies who don’t want to commit to leg tattoos there are a wide range of tattoo tights to be found. Perfect for those too indecisive to get tattoos, when you are bored with your look you can simply peel off your tights and be bared legged once again.
Tights pictured from Asos
Henna is for those looking for a more long lasting tattoo design but without the permenance of real ink. Henna is a natural dye prepared from a plant, the longer you leave it on, the darker the stain. Allowing the user to decide how noticeable they want the tattoo to be.
Image from @Anoushka_irukandji
You can even accessorize your cuts and grazes with tattoo inspired plasters.
Image from Culture-Vulture
For those with more serious injuries you can even purchase fake tattoos for your cast. Website Casttoo offers a wide range of designs for all the family!
Chapman Brothers’ Tattoo Parlour
“There will be pain. Pain and blood.”
Jake and Dinos Chapman hope to raise £25,000 through Art Fund and their crowd-funding website Art Happens to open a tattoo art project at the Jerwood Gallery.
Those who donate can help bring the brothers back to their home town of Hastings, where their new art exhibition will be on display. Not only will the brother’s be painting over old junk shop finds, but they are encouraging the public to bring in art from their homes for the brothers to update with paint.
Jake and Dinos are also opening a pop-up tattoo parlour in the gallery, in which they will reward those who donated with specially-designed tattoos turning them into walking one-off pieces of art.
The original idea was to have Dinos tattooing in a wooden box, the victim – or lucky customer – would stick their arm through a hole in the box where it would be strapped down, totally hidden from site. Dinos would tattoo a design of his choosing onto their arm and on removal from the hole the recipient would see their new tattoo. Fortunately this idea was dismissed on health and safety grounds by Frieze Art Fair.
Neither one of the brothers has any formal training and Jake’s forearm is covered with blue scribbles done by Dinos.
He isn’t very good, and he really dug in with the needle – it was very painful.
Will you be donating? Would you let someone tattoo a mystery design on your skin?
Chapman Brothers quoted from The Guardian
Images from The Guardian and www.blouinartinfo.com