Ryan’s client sat for seven hours to complete this amazing combination of line and flesh removal cutting.
The level is detail is very impressive; as with most of Ryan’s work. I look forward to seeing this one healed.

In November of 2010 we featured a fresh and healing ambigram cutting by the super talented Christian Bedics; he’s just checked in with a more recent picture and all I could say was “wow”.
This is at a year healed.

Tattooist Lyle Tuttle once commented that as a highschool dropout, he probably knew more about mythology than the average college professor; that if a client loves a Cerebus enough to get the image permanently tattooed on them they’re going to want to share every detail about it’s origins with the artist.

Efix Roy’s always stellar Buddhist cuttings trend the same way for me; when he has a new work I invariably find myself researching the origins of the image to find out more about it.

The Kamakura Buddhaa is a large scale statue of the Amitābha Buddha that resides in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan. Amitābha is the Buddha of Comprehensive Love. Without today’s cutting… I wouldn’t have had to go to wikipedia and I wouldn’t have learned something new.

The moral of the story is… Efix Roy makes you smarter.

The Imperial Stormtrooper is the everyman of the Empire. His armor is weak (see Ewoks killing Troopers with rocks in Jedi) and he probably doesn’t get paid. But he still goes out there as cannon fodder to get done what needs done.

Scarwars is just a name. No George Lucas overtones here. This isn’t the Stormtrooper you’re looking for.

Cutting by Brian Decker at the Philadelphia Tattoo Convention

Cupcakes and Scarification go together like… well… cupcakes and scarification.
My buddy Anders (the Piercing Guy) turned out this flesh removal treat in just over two hours.

I’ve spent most of the morning watching horror films.
Netflix has a plethora of schlock horror offerings and I’m overdosing on them. Blood everywhere. So despite normally trying to stay away from bloody content here on the scarblog, I figured today was a good day to feature something a little more… red.

Atom Moore shot this at Scarwars2 in California. Brian Decker is responsible for the cutting.

More hybrids?
My friend Pat in Montreal (who’s making his debut on the Scarblog with this post) sent this over last night; a koi fish cutting/flesh removal/branding. Great line work here with a really good design courtesy of Patrick Morency.

The “original” Scarwars piece, done at Modcon4 in Toronto, was a hybrid of styles. Cutting, Branding and Flesh Removal done by several rotating artists. (If memory serves it was Brian Decker, Blair and Ryan Ouellette) I have a feeling that we’re going to be seeing a lot more hybrid work soon.

Welcome to Scarwars, Pat!

Been a while since I’ve updated, much less featured a cutting from Mr. Ryan Ouellette.
Two birds, one stone. Or one key and a dime. Whichever works.
As always, you can find more info on Ryan by clicking the Precision Body Arts link on the right sidebar.

Our friend Wikipedia has this to say about ambigrams:
An ambigram is a typographical design or artform that may be read as one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also from another viewpoint, direction, or orientation. The words readable in the other viewpoint, direction or orientation may be the same or different from the original words.

This is the second cutting we’ve featured from our new friend Chris Bedics; fresh and healed.

I’m a firm believer in showing healed scarification here on the SW blog; to give accurate documentation on pieces regardless of how they eventually heal.

Today’s update is from Jesse “This Charming Man” Villemaire of Thrive in Canada; showing the fresh cutting and update at two years. The texture and definition are amazing; and to be honest it’s been way too damn long since I’ve posted anything by Jesse.