Last month, right after I got back from my tattoo residencies in Baltimore, MD and Doylestown, PA I began my transition from Electric Expressions where I'd been for 5 breathless years to working at Hell or High Water Tattoos on Magazine St - still in New Orleans, or it's actually in New Orleans, just uptown instead of by the airport where EE is located.
And THEN - the second week of October, also right when I got back, there was the opening of Ink N Needles, A Tattoo Exhibition at SLU (Southeastern University). I was asked to participate in the show and submitted a plethora of things, all different, so I was intrigued to see what Dale, the curator, chose to display.
I forgot my camera. So we will have to make do with our imaginiation for now, so like let's pretend like when we were kids and I'm telling a storytime. I may be able to get some photos from Dale or the university at a later point, but right now lettuce make believe... so of my stuff he mostly hung my process drawings and sketches, leading into the final drawing and then a photo of the finished tattoo work. There were also two of the finished drawings of some sleeves I have finished or begun - the shark/plane/squid/minisub and the superhero/cityscape. It was different from most of what everyone else presented. A majority of the work was hand-painted tattoo flash imagery, some enlarged photos of executed tattoos, and then some illustrative paintings by tattooers too. The contributing artists were from all across the country. Locally, Tattooagogo and Electric Ladyland had several artists showing work. It was a fun show - made me want to go home and draw!
Here's some of the promo material - the poster for the show (a tattoo by Donn Davis of Tattooagogo), and the catalogue, also flipped to the page featuring my work (the Nola's Ark halfsleeve).
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