Souls to Burn
By Jordan Ginsberg • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: ModBlog
Here’s a little known fact: Dan DiMattia of Calypso Tattoo is not actually a tattoo artist. Weird, right? Because you’ve seen all these beautiful things that he claims to have tattooed? Never. Not once has he tattooed a person. You know how he tipped his hand? “His” “pieces” are too good. No human being could actually produce tattoos that gorgeous. Either Dan DiMattia is some sort of space creature, or he is in league with magicians and/or witches who just make these works of art appear. These are obviously the only two reasonable options to explain how he can consistently claim to produce such incredible work. (Actually, there’s a third option, one which involves me being a moron. Guess which one is correct! I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.)
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Jordan Ginsberg is the former managing editor and head writer for BME.
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Can I have money to go to Belgium?? I think I have to leave a thigh bare for one. So so beautiful.
Not to be a shite - but I am betting on option 3 :D
space aliens tattoo good like.
fucking cool dot work there!
nice
All of his stuff is SO GORGEOUS.
oh man, that’s beautiful.
I love this guy’s work. Always amazing. Makes me seriously consider getting dotwork on myself in the future.
FYI it’s called stippling, should you choose to go to a tattoo shop and request it =].
dang that is too cool for school
wow. i mean…WOW!!!! amazing i love dan’s work, looks so good.
there are some brilliant dotwork artrists in europe and i’m glad to live between two of them: calypso belgium and swastika freakshop germany. then maybe, one day…i can have a dream, right?
DAN, my neck is yours :)
Lol it aint that good…
i like this i like this i like this
God I love his work so so so sosososososo much.
l love dot work
Am I seeing right, that this is arm next to a stomache that is covered in black ink? btw, this looks great.
Actually, the correct artistic term for this style of work would be Pointillism. Either way, it looks amazing.
#16 - I think that’s a bench top or something? I could be wrong though…
#17 ddixonart says:
There’s even one more word to add to the confusion: “Hedcut.” Pointillism seems to usually mean dots of COLORS that are placed near each other. When the viewer moves away from the artwork, the colors seem to blend. Stipple is usually black and white,
u think u fuckin no it all and noones likes that here so dont post anymore
i wish i could go there and get some of this magic on myself.
12- Look at his entire portfolio, his stuff is impressive.
ooo i love this!
I love his style.
bradly is right about the terms “pontillism” and “stippling”
everyone else is right that this is a really really sweet tattoo, the gradations are amazing
note: saying “dotwork” is just fine too, though, since it’s tattoos and not museum pieces we are discussing :)
Jordan, I’m totally not showing this to Dan! We need to keep the alien humble! But thank you for posting it. I love when he does the dotwork skulls.
Oh, and it’s actually against a black door background, not a black tummy. But that would be cool!
xoxo
marisa
Wow. I honestly don’t usually go for plain black and whites like this…
but…wow. It’s gorgeous. I would go for a piece from this guy.