Tattoos Are The Best Art

Being a tattoo artist is probably the most difficult kind of art because it's your art on someone else for the rest of their lives. Not to mention it's painful and if it's done wrong it could scar or just bleed way more then it should. These are a couple tats I've come across that I think are really well done. I'll be updating it when I see something worth while. I get most of the pictures from a a site i subscribed to on Facebook called So Tattooed.
For the first picture, i love this, the colors are amazing. I'm pretty sure its a type of bird. I tried to find the artist name but haven't yet.

This tattoo is done by Victor Portugal. I love the detail in this one, the cat is so realistic and being on a hand is difficult with all the bones. The eyes of the cat are so well done it looks like he's look right at you, even the shine in his eyes make it look real. If you look close you can see there is a scull between his ears which fits in perfectly. Brilliant


Tattoo by Alycia Harr. Theres alot going on in this piece. probably took a couple of hours long sittings but still i think it looks great.

This is one of my 6 tattoos on my side. it was done by Andy at Rise Above on Hertel Avenue. I's really well done, I've gotten 2 tats from him and one from someone else at Rise Above. i plan to go back. =] I just found that Rise Above has their own blogger called THE LIVING TRADITION :   
http://thelivingtradition.blogspot.com/I will be posting more when i find something cool.

 

Found this the other day. The photography aspect is more why i wanted to post it

These next 2 pieces were done by Dimitriy Samohin. Spectacular! its like they're not even on skin.

Georgia O'Keefe and Vincent Van Gogh

I looked up all the artists we thought of in class and chose two whose art i liked the most. The first one i chose was Georgia O'Keefe. I have seen her work throughout the years and in my other art classes but i didnt know who she was till now. O'Keefe was born in Wisconsin in 1887 and attended many art schools such as the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905 and the Art League of New York along with some others. In 1985 she received a Metal of the arts award from President Ronald Reagan. O'Keefe died at the age of 98 in 1986 just a year after her award. some of her famous pieces that stood out to me are:

 Light Iris

Series 1-From the Plains

The other artist I chose was Vincent Van Gogh because his style in painting seems to be mostly formed in patterns which is unique for a lot of artists. Van Gogh was born on March 30th 1853 and throughout the 10 years of his art career, produced 900 paintings and 1100 drawings.During his life he had many jobs but was not successful when it came to his art. 11 years after he passed, his art was displayed in Paris as a showing of 71 Van Gogh paintings on Marth 17th, 1901. Van Gohg ended up committing suicide on July 29th 1890 because of a mental illness possibly bi polar disorder. The two works i chose by him are:

Starry Night

Cypress Starr

First Entry

I believe art is one of the most important expressions for someone to explore in their own mind, weather it be painting and drawing, or being a musician, because music is also art. There are many types of art in the world and each piece symbolizes an emotion that means one thing to the artist but may mean something different to the on looker. This is what makes art so interesting, an emotion is being left on a canvas, a sculpture and even a song the artist was trying express. The best thing about art is you can put anything together, even something simple and call it art. If a painting looks a little off you can just say you meant to do it that way. It is important to have art in your life because it expresses emotion and ideas that might be hard to put into words or may be taking up to much space in ones mind. When the piece is finished, or even just started it's like you've started to rid a burden that was on your mind, almost in a relieving sense.
As far as my favorite artist goes...i don't really have one, but over the summer at one of the art shows down in Allen town, my mom found a booth with little doll type monsters made of clay. She showed me the website and i think their really interesting, kind of creepy but very well done. She also custom makes dolls for her fans, which are very unique.The artists name is Nicole Jehnsen.this is her link:
http://www.mealymonsterland.com/

One of my favorite forms of art is tattooing, it's very interesting to see tattoos on people and you wonder what the story is behind it and who drew it. It takes real talent to be a tattoo artist because your canvas can't always just be painted over, and it's on someones skin for life. I will probably be posting alot of tattoo art on my blog along with the artists name and their shop.
The first impression i had of this class is that their will be a lot of activities and i can't wait to get into it. Having a blog is definitely new for a class and it seems like a good plan to get our ideas out there to others. I'm exciting to start this class and learn as much as i can about local art and maybe even how to get my pieces out somewhere and noticed.