Delicate and feminine. Diamond and feather tattoos.
Photo: source unknown.
Free your mind, free your heart
Art Love – Charmaine Olivia
Charmaine Olivia – dreamer, painter, tea drinker, self-taught San Franciscan artist. She first started drawing with soy sauce on napkins but has since upgraded to paper and paint. She loves playing Scrabble in the park, cuddling with her kitten and drinking peppermint tea.
Her work is a mix of intense paintings and whimsical drawings, she shifts with ease between styles and mediums. Oil painting requires discipline, commitment and composition, where as her drawings are more spontaneous and free. She admires the work of Brian Viveros and Sam Weber, she is obsessed with Gustav Klimt.
Here is a selection of her differing styles of work.
Her work has a contemporary edge and she has worked on projects with Urban Outfitters, Nylon Magazine, Eyes on Walls, Threadless, Infectious, Cool Hunting and Society6. Her work also lends itself perfectly to tattooing and this girl has a tattoo inspired by Charmaine Olivia’s Vampire.
Photo: Facebook Girl: Coreena All artwork taken from Charmaine’s website
Read a full interview with Charmaine Olivia on My Modern Met.
An afternoon of tattooed love.
This afternoon, between working, tweeting and general April foolishness, I have mainly been browsing a Tumblr blog featuring tattooed couples, Tattooed Love. Here is a selection of my favourite photos…you can discover the raunchy variety for yourself…
Photos: Rock ‘n’ Roll Bride, Tattoo me, unknown, unknown.
Get your tat out. Returned.
My first ever Get your tat out post featured a lovely lady called Laura, with her script tattoo, Inhale. She has now added a complimentary little heart tattoo to her other arm…she is possibly feeling a little romantic before her nuptials this year…and I have a feeling there will be more romantic inkings to follow…
