Coming to the End...

It is coming to the end of the year here at school :( it makes me sad and at the same time happy. I am looking forward to the summer so that I can work and start working on my back piece; I think that I am going to get the lower part of my back done and then work on the middle from there. Throughout the year I have been working on my sketches for my tattoos and other ones that I thought that were creative and have sold some of them to a local tattoo shop near my home town.

I have drawn a considerable amount of inspiration from people here at school, I have seen an abundant amount of different style of tattoos and varying people that I didn't expect to see tattoos on. I am glad to see that there are some many people that have the same outlook as I do about art, especially art on the body.

It has been hard saying goodbye to people in these last couple of days...but it has turned a new leaf for me and realized I am not really saying goodbye but see you later. Some of the people that I have met here have had a huge impact on my life and some of them I will never let go as my friends or should I say my new found family. From these I have also drawn new inspiration in my designing, trying to create things that have a story but not making them to difficult or intricate...I have found my style which seems to be simplicity, so I leave with this...

"Simplicity provides a fine line between eloquence and plainness."

Fav Tattoo Find of the Day

This is one of my favorite finds of the day!! I have an small obsession with anchors and nautical themed everything!! So I was instantly attracted to the tattoo; I would have to say though that I am not a fan of the broken bleeding heart, I think that I would like it better as a whole if there were no blood droplets on the lower part of it because it makes it seem to dark and dreary.

Sick, Weird, Strange and Dumb Tattoos Video

Here is a link to a video that I found on YouTube [not sure how to embed the video, sorry :( ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiO2U_O17JQ

A Tattoo that keeps popping up...

This tattoo is one that keeps popping up whenever I do a search online for tattoos, no matter where I go!! It is funny but kind of gross at the same time!! Some of the things that people come up with for tattoos....

Using the Body as a Canvas

I have seen many, many people that have tattoos that cover a good chunk of their body or they have turned their body into a canvas. To me, the body is a canvas and being able to express yourself in that way is great, and having the confidence and willingness to do it is amazing! There are many people who get a couple of tattoos and they are satisfied and there are others that simply get tattoos and they become addicted to them, ultimately they end up getting one after another and they end up covering their whole body.

Favorite Find of the Day

These were some tattoos that I found that I really like and I thought were interesting, beautiful or a good use of space on the body.

Tattoo of the Day

This is a lovely tattoo and I think that there is detail to it but still with the simplicity, that it makes it very feminine and straight edged (without all of the "fluff" and shadowing to soften it). What softens it is the filigree that is at the end of the stems of the lilies, that is what gives it it's feminine touch.