With this client being deaf, Nick Bertioli had to rely on sign language and lip reading in order to communicate. While the language barrier may have been a problem, it isn’t evident on this tattoo.
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Step by step, dot by dot, this image of Buddha is meticulous in it’s beauty. Each dot on its own means little, but when combined with all the others, the image becomes clear.
Tattoo by geRi from Swastika Tattoo in Budapest, Hungary.
I’m sure someone, somewhere, is going to be offended by this, but that shouldn’t take away from the great job Roger LaDouceur did on this Pez Pope tattoo.
Roger works at Star City Tattoos in Roanoke, VA
There’s so much going on here and all of it works together beautifully.
Tattoo by Sonja, Punktum Tattoo, Germany.
There’s so much going on in this Nick Bertioli piece I don’t know where to begin. The tattoo itself is so elegant it’s easy to overlook some of the minute details that he put into it. For the most part the entire piece is made up of Masonic imagery, right down to the motto “Ordo Ab Chao” (Order out of Chaos).
There’s no guesswork when it comes to knowing what this is. It’s a straight up crucifix comprised of iron nails and either vine or wire. The ruggedness of the cross links to the the crucifixion, in which Jesus was beaten and paraded through the streets. While a lot of cross tattoos use similar imagery, this is the first one I’ve seen using this style, and I’ve got to say, Jackie did a great job creating it.
Jackie Rabbit works at Star City Tattoo in Roanoke, VA
The all-seeing eye, the eye of providence, the eye of god, etc. All of these terms refer to one simple symbol, an eye in a triangle with rays of light coming out of it. Most Americans see it every day on the back of the dollar bill. Popular culture has convinced us that it is a Masonic symbol (I’m looking at you Nic Cage). Regardless of the name and where it is located, it always means the same thing, an eye that sees everything. Who the eye belongs to is open to interpretation, but for this particular eye, it belongs to a client of Nick Bertioli. Nick was doing a guest spot at Exxxotic Tattoo in Paris when he was asked to create this eye, and according to him, he had a lot of fun while doing it. Hopefully we’ll see more from Nick’s travels soon.
Years from now, when historians jot down the annals of tattooing for our generation, the chapter on minimalism is bound to have at least a couple of paragraphs about Hungary’s Gabor Zagyvai. His style is carried into everything he does, as evidenced by this piece he uploaded to the religious and mythological tattoo gallery. Not everyone appreciates the minimalist approach, but to those who do, Gabor is one of the best working minimalist tattooists working today.
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This wonderful portrait of Kkathrynn’s cat Buddha was done by Kelly Doty, from Off the Map Tattoo in Easthampton, MA. I found it in one of the newer galleries that has been added recently, the pet portrait tattoo gallery.
I could be completely wrong, but I believe that this tattoo is a depiction of a Rahwana mask. Rahwana, or Ravana is a hindu deity with a very contentious background. To some he is an evil deity, yet to others he signifies knowledge. In most depictions he has 10 heads, but he is known to be shown with only one, like the example below. I mentioned yesterday how well Vincent Hocquet can blend in religious imagery into his abstract pieces, and this shows he can tackle these images on their own. It’s hard to see without zooming in the photo, but the vast majority of this piece is done with stippling, a technique that a number of artists have been using when approaching similar subject matters.
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