20-amazing-artist-inspired-tattoos from flavorwire.com. [Editor's note: While your Flavorwire editors take a much-needed holiday break, we're revisiting some of our most popular features of the year.
This post was originally published February 16, 2011.] If we’re being honest, most of us will never own a work of art by a famous artist. And while back in college, it might have been okay to pay homage to one of the greats with a poster print from the museum, these days when it comes to the artwork that hangs on our walls, we tend to opt for original pieces by emerging (read: more affordable) talents. A few enterprising souls have found a way to sidestep the issue completely by displaying famous works of art directly on their bodies. Click through for some of our favorite examples, and if you happen to have an art-inspired tattoo, be sure to tell us about it in the comments.
Andy Warhol [via] Banksy [via] How To Become a Successful Tattoo Artist. It seems that with the popularity of tattoos and the potential for high income, a lot of people want to become a tattoo artist.
Many of them make the mistake of buying a kit and practicing on their friends, which is very dangerous. Many of these people never become truly successful at tattooing anyway, and never acquire the skills necessary to compete in this highly competitive business. If you're serious about becoming a skilled and competent artist, this is what you need to do. Difficulty: Hard Time Required: 1-5 Years Here's How: The first thing you need is raw talent. What You Need Talent and SkillA PortfolioHumility & PassionMoney & a Regular JobDrive & DeterminationPersistance & Perseverence. Tom Renshaw - Ink with Expression. Metro Times - Arts: Portrait of a tattoo artist. The face of Rose Jones has been seen around the globe, immortalized in the glossy, colorful pages of international tattoo magazines.
It’s a curious achievement, considering Rose is not the scantily clad young pinup normally favored by such publications. She is a 74-year-old grandmother — without a single tattoo. Rather, Rose is a tattoo. Her warmly creased smile is permanently etched into the skin of her grandson, Shawn Jones. Rose raised Shawn as her own son; his parents weren’t around to do the job. The 30-year-old Detroiter wanted to create a tribute to her to symbolize his love and gratitude. “I got it on my heart because my grandmother is my heart, she’ll always be on my heart, and I wouldn’t even have a heart if it wasn’t for my grandmother,” says Shawn. For such a poignant piece of art, Shawn wouldn’t settle for anything less than the best.
So he went to the greatest portrait tattoo artist in the world. An unlikely icon The comparison is not as strange as it may appear. A big one.