Just wanted to take a minute to thank all the people that wrote great reviews of me on yelp, it is pretty cool to hear… and i get quite a few people saying they found me due to the review… and i thank you all…

http://www.yelp.com/biz/prix-body-adornment-west-hollywood-2

Rummaging through an old hard-drive over the holiday i ran across an interesting picture…
that helps give a pretty good perspective of the actual size of my paintings…

at the shop i have a couple of prints up, and they are just that, framed prints… about 13×18 inches or so… when looking at my paintings online, well…
the are limited by screen size, load speed, and just the mere fact that both the prints and images online are simply small in comparisons… even when throw out numbers of actual sizes… it just does not seem to do the original work justice…

maybe this will help… this picture of cage (and unfortunately myself) was taken in S.F. back in ’02…

(i should have got some hot goth-girl to model my art…) 🙂
anyway, cage is 41×56 inches (unframed, that is around 3.5×4.6 feet…) and standing next to it does give a good idea of just how large these things are that i do…

so… when looking at all the tiny little details of all those tormented faces that make up the organic textures of my work… well…
know that there is a bit more going on then translates here…

** using my zazzle site, www.zazzle.com/tattoosbydark , you can actually get a print or poster of the work at a much larger size… size, paper options, and even framing is available from zazzle… but of course, to keep the originals unique, i did not make them available at the ‘original sizes’… these are in the ‘store’ section of the site… if your looking for a larger print then is available on zazzle, or even an original, contact me directly…

So this was interesting… taken from an old comic strip by Bill Watterson, but obviously not his normal sketches of Calvin and Hobbes… we really pushed it to look ‘illustrated’ so to say, using sketchy outlines and crosshatching, and a bit of light shading to give it just a bit more depth…

In general, with traditional tattooing, sketch outlines like this are rarely done, back in the day, if a professional tattooist would simply say its done wrong, but with how far our medium has been pushed, a whole new world of art is being captured in the flesh, and if the style accentuates the piece, mood, feeling… and i think for this piece… it does just that…

It is actually a difficult style to tattoo… unlike paper; the flesh is not a great canvas for ‘sketching’ so to say… every line has to be deliberate vs. working on paper (where you can get away with some randomness…)… but all in all… a pretty cool and fun piece…

Even with the context of the image (i also attached the original comic strip below…)

(in the archive there is another example of the style done on a quarter sleeve gargoyle image…again, for the piece i really think it worked nicely…)

Just a cool owl piece… with a sepia tone background… (full set of pictures in the archive…)

(for those who dont know, i play a bit of guitar here and or there… :))