John started this piece at Xanadont (my humble South Philadelphia estate) with the koi and added the cherry blossoms at SW3. The piece features cross-hatch shading and was photographed by Atom Moore. Tattoo iconography is fairly common in scarification design choices, but scarification is not tattooing. (obviously) I’ve seen a lot of posts recently on … Continue reading
Ryan holds the distinction of having the hardest to spell last name of all of the artists who’ve cut at the SW events. (Having edged out Jesse Villemaire) He did this piece over a few grueling hours at SW3 in October of 2007 using line cutting and flesh removal. You can see more of Ryan’s … Continue reading
A few weeks ago Claire and I headed up to Pittsfield, Mass for the annual ROP Campout; I was able to catch up with a few friends who had healed scars for me to photograph; one of them was the always impressive V, who you may remember from here, here, and here. The dagger brand … Continue reading
Brian Decker likes cephalopods. (proof here and here). He checked in the other day with Jazz’s cutting…. here are a few more shots of the cutting in-progress. Thanks to Jazz for the use of the pictures. Using a dermal punch to make the suckers.
I received an email the other day asking how practical it would be to fill in a healed scarification with tattooing. I started virtually rummaging through my desktop looking for a picture of my friend Jessa’s amazing moth cutting (by Brian Decker @Pure) that had been tattooed. (by Joy Rumore @1228) Turns out I didn’t … Continue reading
My friend Ammre took a bunch of great pictures back at the first SW event in 2005. As I was digging through discs looking for something nonrelated I found the whole lot of em; of the two that I picked for tonight’s updates, this was the one without boobs. Sorry. That one will come next. … Continue reading