Chinese-American artist Martin Wong is the subject of a major solo exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.
You know the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover?” The same rule can be changed into “Don’t judge a person by its ink.” Getting some body art inked is probably one of the best ways for self-expression—be it a drawing in remembrance of your past beliefs, shenanigans or a minimal tattoo filled with deep meanings. No tattoo design is meaningless or ugly because there’s always something bigger behind it. At least to the person who chose the unique tattoo, that is.
You know the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover?” The same rule can be changed into “Don’t judge a person by its ink.” Getting some body art inked is probably one of the best ways for self-expression—be it a drawing in remembrance of your past beliefs, shenanigans or a minimal tattoo filled with deep meanings. No tattoo design is meaningless or ugly because there’s always something bigger behind it. At least to the person who chose the unique tattoo, that is.
As you might've realized from our publications on the Facebook group 'What in the $20 wish tattoo machine is this?' or the 'That's It, I'm Inkshaming' group, sadly, subpar tattoos are pretty common. Which makes the good ones even more admirable.
An art piece based on bipolar disorder.
Forget-me-not Tattoo Meanings When you give someone a bouquet of forget me not flowers, it
I recently learned the expression "border trouble", in this case referring not to immigration---nor to illuminated borders, like the one above---but rather to the sometimes-daunting obstacle between the idea for a piece and the point at which it begins to take shape. Since I sometimes struggle mightily to move through that region, it helps me to think of it as just a transition, kind of a bothersome ordeal one has to go through to move into the pleasure on working on the piece once it starts to come to life, not to mention once it is finished. It's school fundraiser season once again and I created this piece to raise some money for a good cause. Artwork doesn't always do well in a silent auction but this was displayed nicely and went for a pretty penny! The border outline came from the fabulous collection of the Graphics Fairy (you really need to go to that site, and bookmark it!); I was able to take a little shortcut and print it onto tracing paper (rather than actually tracing it) and then transferred it to Arches 140 lb hot press with Armenian bole. Because of the nature of the quote, I used more colors than I usually would have in the border. The ink is Pelikan (with some powdered gum arabic added); the rest of the design is gouache, pen, and 23K gold leaf. I used a [left-handed] Brause 1.5mm nib; the image is about 7.5" X 10.5". I used my Logan Compact Mat Cutter (which has come in handy more times than I can count) to cut the mat, then popped it into a frame I picked up at Michael's half-price. Ta-dah!
Als India Ellison aufs Land zog und ihr eigenes Tattoo-Studio eröffnete, tat sie dies, um in der Nähe ihrer Schwester zu sein und ihr Leben auf die Reihe zu kriegen. Dass sie aufgrund ihrer Tattoos, Piercings und ausgefallenen Haarfarben wahrscheinlich ewig eine Aussenseiterin bleiben wird, macht ihr nichts aus. Denn sie ist seit Jahren clean, sozial engagiert, hat ihre Familie und ihren besten Freund um sich. Colt McKay. Alkohol, Drogen und Sex prägten Colts exzessive Vergangenheit. Seit drei Jahren jedoch ist er trocken. Genauso lange lebt er bereits in sexueller Abstinenz. Seine Sucht nach Alkohol unter Kontrolle zu halten ist ein Kinderspiel, verglichen mit der Sehnsucht, die er für seine beste Freundin India empfindet. In all den Jahren war sie seine Rettung, und bis zum heutigen Tag seine grösste Versuchung.
