Artist Bloggin

A collection of career highlights

[surayyankosi]

I’ve done three stitches on one of my favorite clients. I wanted to post the most recent one because I’m very proud and impressed with consistent practice does for my ability to render. I’m enjoying the progress and years of drawing I’ve done that make tattooing a manageable challenge 😌

P.S. I’m making some progress with taking better quality photos 😅

[surayyankosi]

Another day getting my mind right. Involves thinking about visual artistry. Deciding what to draw. Capturing footage and editing. Creating a quality rendition that can be replicated as prints. Then making an expense list.

Which reminds me that I have to get a book to build an emailing list.

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The first batch of line work after my milestone piece. Making lines full and clean one piece at a time!

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My first tattoo. Three things: 1st focus on posture it’ll help with 2 & 3. 2nd good habits are significantly easier to practice on others than self, and 3rd being in tune with skin vibration will indicate needle depth.

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Fresh and newly healed.

I’m into how the lines healed. Definitely keeping in mind tinting blood lines in heavy linework pieces.

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Learning the process of intricate line work tattoo art vs. tattoo designs:

The first attempt was the immense exploration of capturing every detail. It was a very satisfying transfer. It became easier to read the stencil the longer I’d stare at it. In a word; ‘trippy’. Artsy and subjective I love it.

The second attempt the focus was taking an approach to capture enough but not every detail. Thinking heavily about clean lines. I added sharpie markings for a placement guide. Realized I have to consider the W H O L E process not just the drawing. Design very thoughtful and easier on the eyes.

Current thoughts: how do I make it look expensive. An intricate luxury piece that consumes the viewer and gets a satisfying “woOow”…

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Came across ‘G R A F I T T I W O M E N’

I had a copy of this book in ‘09 and haven’t seen it since!

I loved seeing the characters and derived the sensual essence of mine from here ❤️

These are the pages and artists that stood out to me when I first got into graffiti.

Bitches In Control (BIC)

EGR

Fafi

Makoh

Miss Lili

Miss Van

Hera

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A self reflection: I create a self portrait piece. It’s intent was to study how value comprehension fosters realistic chromatic alterations.

The interesting yet profoundly annoying thing I did was add peonies flowing through the piece. (I love peonies rn and composition has always been a habitual touch.) It’s annoyed me for weeks and I haven’t understood why until this morning.

With this ultimately unfinished piece I feel personally satisfied because I got the technical lesson of color theory that I was aiming for (yayy!). However the peonies are teaching me a tremendous amount about the emotionality that drives a finished piece.

The emotional component for this specific piece is rooted in a desire to create a positive reputation amongst a community of artists. A faulty and irrational feeling as I know at the end of the day people will think what they want and that’s out of my control. I’m guessing I’m feeling this way from social anxiety. Since it’s a first impression painting I made amongst an elite group of artists.

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Figure this is a good first post: ‘Twin Flame’ a solo art show of Miya Bailey new originals.

The colors (over saturated pictures) emphasizes how vividly I see the paints. As I watched the event unfold I felt an impactful shift in my paradigm of a following and a network. (Future post: memories of Turner.)