Oh hey look, it’s Madison!
Since moving away from the east coast, she’s added some new work by Rob Vino from Matamata Studio in Hamilton, ON to go along with the pieces Scott Forbes from Oceanic Art in Nova Scotia did.
Tag: Tattoos
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Heart of Orange
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Anji is a familiar face to long time ModBlog readers. As far back as 2006 we’ve seen her tattoos on these pages. It’s been over 5 years since her first ModBlog post and she’s still going strong, as you can see with this heart chestpiece simply entitled “Orange“.
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“This is a good death… there’s no shame in this.”
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Roger LaDouceur from Star City Tattoo in Roanoke, VA sent in this image of a warrior falling on his sword. I really like how the softness of the sky is contrasted by the starkness of the pool of blood.
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The Friday Follow-up
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Things are back to normal this week, which means it’s time for this week’s scarification follow-up post. Before we get to it, I just want to take a minute to thank everyone who keeps sending in their healed scar photos. When I started this column last year there was no way I could predict how popular it would become, and there’s no way it could exist without the contributions of the many talented scarification artists.
That said, let’s get on to this week’s scar. Back in December of last year we saw this scarification that was done over ink. What was unique was that it wasn’t done over solid blackwork, but rather it was done over Shannan’s full color chestpiece.
It’s been almost six months now since we saw this scar by Anders, so keep on reading if you want to know how it looks today.
Now that the scar has had some time to heal you can see how well it fits in with the rest of her work. I really like how the scar tissue has healed to almost the exact same color as the ribbon on the corset. To see more of Anders’ work, check out his BME Portfolio Gallery.
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..and this is why I pretty much don’t ever do scarification anymore.
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People often ask me why I don’t tattoo. I have been around it enough, I know the technical stuff but I just lack the talent to really excel at tattooing. I explain that while I could likely make a few bucks doing it, I would forever be disheartened by my inability to put out pieces with the artistic quality I would expect of myself.
Go back a few years, to the “early days” of scarifications modern resurgence, a time when very few piercers/mod artist offered this service and it seemed like a bandwagon I could jump on. Bold simple designs, cut burned and peeled from the flesh…….that I could handle. Then along comes people like Ryan Oullette who did this piece. People like him, Ron Garza, Brian Decker, Efix Roy and several others have pushed this art form from it’s primitive roots into the fine art you see here.
To think that just 10 years ago scarification was so rare and “extreme” it could earn it’s wearers an invite to Modcon events, it is astonishing the quantity of amazing scarification we see each and every week here on Modblog. So while I occasionally will continue to take on a simple piece, I have to throw my hat in to these guys when it comes to this sort of amazingness.
So thanks, you overly talented a-holes, now I am “just a piercer” again 🙂
Anyhow, back to the photo at hand ……this recent piece, which I was just blown away by. It was actually drawn up for one client who never showed up for it, so he posted the drawing to facebook and a girl named Samantha, jumped on the chance and spent 7 hours under the blade to get it.
For proof that Ryan actually wears the title of “Lord of the Blade” with pride keep on keeping on.
Tattoo by Angry Al at Ryan’s shop, Precision Body Arts.