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Sirwesalot sent in a photo of his shoulder portrait. When it comes to portrait tattoos they can be very hit or miss. I know we’ve all seen that picture that’s been floating around the net for years of the “In Loving Memory” portrait that makes the woman look horrible. Now this photo of Sirwesalot’s Grandad John by Edgar from London Road in London, is an example of a great portrait. If I didn’t know it was a tattoo I would swear that it was charcoal on canvas, given how soft everything is.
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Brian nailed this one. It’s the 4th piece in Sames’ Star Wars scar sleeve, and I think it could very well be my favorite (so far anyway). When I first saw it I was completely blown away by how spot on the design is.
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It’s time for another look back at the BME World Tour. Today’s interview is with Matt Collins from Dynamic Tattoo in Melbourne. Matt’s a young artist who is making a name for himself while working alongside other artists who are mentoring him as he develops his craft, including Trevor McStay, who we talked to in an earlier edition of BMEtv.
To check out the video, keep on reading!
If you’ve missed any of the videos so far, you can check out the rest of them in the BME World Tour Video Gallery
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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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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.
