Last few days have been spent slaving over a combination of hot drawing board and overheating tattoo machines... ...last night had takeout Japanese food (life is hell) and worked on LATE in the studio.
So - stopping earlier tonight to meet my friend Ev (or Aussie Cookie as we know her - pictured above with the cherry blossom/sakura/peony tattoo I did for her) cos she wants to see Quiffy (my hubby - Paul Paterson -
www.paulpaterson.com ) playing his geetar in 'Be Bop a Lula' so he got us comps for tonight.
Been neglecting my photo duties a bit too- yesterday I took a snap of the chrysanthemum tattoo above -it's part of a piece that stretches from left knee to right shoulder and incorporates some old tattoo work into the design as well.
This is the Japanese dragon thigh piece I started a couple of weeks back - today I tidied up the upper lines, added black background and some sumi grey shading work.
The beautiful and talented young lady pictured here is Kirsteen A.K.A. Boobie Trap Corsets. (
http://www.boobietrapcorsets.com/) The first tattoo I did on Kirsteen was a geisha pinup on her calf - then she travelled up from Norwich a few times to get the green cobra geisha and skull roses you see in the pic.
We're now working on turning the cobra geisha arm into a full sleeve - so while she was up in Edinburgh today we did some planning and measuring - and I'm going to come up with something suitably bright yet Japanese influenced featuring flowers and fans - with possibly the odd skull thrown in for good measure!
Have ordered a jigsaw to start cutting out frames for some of my bigger paintings - ha - should be suitably dangerous!
Am also currently drawing up a large design with a chrysanthemum on a fan, a samurai sword and LOTS of cherry blossom. For a change. Gorgeous.
Anyway - gotta look a bit less 'work-like' for Pauls show - so Bye!!
I did this tattoo a while back for a Welsh customer who works in the theatre and shares my love of stylised Art Deco flowers.
Saturday morning was spent putting the finishing touches to the cherry blossom geisha tattoo pictured here. This is what you might call one of my 'signature geisha'. All of the geisha tattoos I do have an Art Deco stylised look to them - some more than others, this one very much so - which is enhanced even more by the teal/pink/black colour.
Here are a couple of photos that were taken by one of the cast of Be Bop a Lula, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe show my rockabilly husband is playing live guitar in.The photographer is an American actor called Ron Geren - he plays Buddy Holly/Satan in the show (we're suspecting he's more naturally Satan than Buddy Holly.... Thanks Ron!)The photo of me makes me look like I'm part of the painting behind me - it was taken at the 'meet and greet' party last Friday - Paul and Dan were in mid acoustic jam at the time.
Last few days have been spent slaving over a combination of hot drawing board and overheating tattoo machines... ...last night had takeout Japanese food (life is hell) and worked on LATE in the studio.
Been neglecting my photo duties a bit too- yesterday I took a snap of the chrysanthemum tattoo above -it's part of a piece that stretches from left knee to right shoulder and incorporates some old tattoo work into the design as well.
This is the Japanese dragon thigh piece I started a couple of weeks back - today I tidied up the upper lines, added black background and some sumi grey shading work.
Both of us have been working crazy hard in recent history - so we had kept this past weekend sacred - no band gigs, no tattoos, no nothing (which wasn't easy cos everyone seemed to want us to do something that weekend) - and we took off to the Highlands camping.
