I’ve previously compared my love of Efix Roy to my love of poutine; today I’ll compare it to the love I have for feeling a big ol’ fighting bass on the end of my fishing line. So when you combine the two- Efix and fishing- you know you’re on to something good. This piece combines … Continue reading
Accolades are a weird thing. When I was considering creating an award in Keith Alexander’s honor for the second SW event, I threw out a bunch of names to the artists who I respect; asking them who they thought really changed the culture of scarification. A similar list of names came up; each artists bringing … Continue reading
“There’s a random painted highway And a muzzle of bees My sleeves have come unstitched From climbing your tree “-Wilco This is Tim’s (previously featured) three year old tree cutting by Brian Decker; the shading technique produced really impressive texture. Tim has this to say: ” I didn’t aggravate it much at all during healing, … Continue reading
Our friend Rata checked in again with this Japanese tattoo style demon cutting; nice bold lines accentuated with flesh removal and shading techniques. I can’t wait to see this one healed!
Brian Decker just finished up his Austin trip. Birds are the new Octopi. The pieces (on two different clients) use line cutting, flesh removal and shading techniques.
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