Embracing female tattoo culture
Have you got what it takes to be on the cover of a tattoo magazine?
Come and strike a pose on the cover of Things and Ink in The Vault – V51 at The London Tattoo Convention and you could win a subscription to the magazine.
All photos will be uploaded to the Things and Ink Facebook page so you can tag yourself as a cover model. The Things and Ink family will pick their favourite face of the convention to win a subscription.
Claudia de Sabe as Artoria Gibbons
Making the cover.
The cover for the launch issue of Things and Ink encapsulates everything that the magazine stands for. Things and Ink is a magazine that celebrates female tattoo culture, both current and historical. And female tattoo artist of the moment, Claudia De Sabe, is posing as Artoria Gibbons, one of the original tattooed ladies.
Artoria the tattooed girl worked in circus side shows in the 1920s.
Let the Things and Ink family know what you think of the cover by tweeting @thingsandink or commenting on Facebook.
Photographer: Kristy Nobel
Makeup: Miss Honey Bare
Hair: Lucie Luella
Dress: Night Feather Headdress: B Millinery
Design: Oliver Campbell and Antonella Bordone
Behind the scenes footage coming soon from Papercut Pictures
So here is a little taster of the photo shoot for the cover of issue one of Things and Ink. I can’t wait to reveal who was sitting on this chair.
And inside this bag is a beautiful creation by Night Feather…
The grand unveiling of the cover will be very soon…
Top photo: Kristy Noble
Photo: weheartit
On Monday I met Erik ‘ The Lizardman’ Sprague.
I met Erik at Art History in the Pub, with Matt Lodder.
Here’s some bits of info I learnt about the Lizardman at the event:
Erik flirted with a number of ideas before he decided to decorate his body green (and no he doesn’t actually want to be a lizard, he knows he’s a human), including a chess board effect. Erik likes the powerful symbolic nature of the lizard and also he just likes the way reptiles look aesthetically.
Erik’s art is constantly with him and will change as his body does.
Erik wanted to see how far he could transform his body and flirt with what it is to be human. He wanted to question what it is to be human if you don’t look like one.
I noticed he didn’t have his armpits tattooed, but I know he’s getting them done later this year, good luck with that Erik and I can’t wait to see how your art evolves with you.