Category: Color

2024, the 6th Seaside Tattoo Show

Post author By The Tattoo Journalist
Post date July 26, 2024
Categories In Birds, Black and Grey, Blackwork, Body Art, Color, Conventions, Conventions & Shows, Dark Art, Horror, Tattoo

When much of California experiences heat waves in July, visiting the Ventura County Fairgrounds, which has a microclimate with temperatures in the mid-70s Fahrenheit (mid-20s Celcius), is excellent. We can breathe and enjoy a three-day convention there. The organizer, Christina Diaz (who also manages Evolved Tattoos and Fine Art) and her key sponsors Working Class […]

Interview with Lena Fedchenko on Botanical Tattoos

Post author By Scene360
Post date June 18, 2024
Categories In Art, Body Art, Color, Fine Line, Flowers and Plants, Interviews, Special Feature, Tattoo

Lena Fedchenko, born in 1987 in Yartsevo, a small town in the far Western region of Russia, relocated to the suburbs of Moscow at the age of 17 and later to the city itself at the age of 22. She graduated from Dubna International University in 2010 with a Sociology degree. After working in the […]

Tattooer Pisatché Draws Inspiration from ’80s Mecha Anime

Post author By Scene360
Post date May 27, 2024
Categories In 3D, Animation, Color, Comics and Cartoons, Futuristic, Metal, Post-Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi, Surreal, Tattoo, Toys and Games

Pisatché, a 29-year-old tattooer who depicts giant robots and electronic hands, is not attempting to project himself into the future; instead, he is reviving the 1980s science fiction, Mecha anime (television series and films), and manga. While “Transformers” in the 1980s in the West, this concept originated in Japan and greatly inspired him. Pisatché nods […]

Inno’s Liquid-like Creature Tattoos

Post author By Scene360
Post date November 9, 2023
Categories In Color, Interviews, Organic, Special Feature, Tattoo, Water

Inno is 28 years old. After earning a bachelor’s degree in 2019 with a major in video design and gaining employment at a fashion brand, he pursued an alternative career path. He enrolled at Sol’s Tattoo Academy in South Korea in 2020. The latter assisted him in learning the fundamentals of becoming a tattooer. Despite […]

Dareum’s Tattoos Feature Oil Pastel Depiction

Post author By The Tattoo Journalist
Post date October 28, 2023
Categories In Art, Body Art, Color, Drawing, Food & Drinks, Interviews, Mixed Media, Special Feature, Tattoo

1994 marked the birth of Da Hye Lee (aka Dareum) in Cheongju, South Korea. Her family relocated to Seoul during childhood, and she has remained there ever since. After deciding early on that visual and fashion design was not her calling, she abandoned her undergraduate major to pursue a career as a tattoo artist. She […]

Yerae’s Flower Tattoos and Scar Cover-ups

Post author By Scene360
Post date September 26, 2023
Categories In Body Art, Color, Flowers and Plants, Identity & Empowerment, Miniature, Tattoo

Yerae, born in Jeju, South Korea, in 1989, had a traditional upbringing in which her parents insisted she obtain a stable career that did not include being an artist. Her grandfather, who engaged in art, recognized Yerae’s talent and provided her with drawing supplies and encouragement to pursue her artistic ambitions. Yerae became a tattooer in 2020 […]

Tattooer Jimmy Shy is Reviving Pinky Yun’s Legacy

Post author By Scene360
Post date June 6, 2023
Categories In Animals, Art, Body Art, Color, Interviews, Special Feature, Tattoo

Taiwanese Jimmy Shy’s vibrant dragon and tiger artwork is essential to the present and the past of tattooing. Takahiro Kitamura’s 2023 book “Tattoo Master Pinky Yun: The Don Ed Hardy Flash Collection” featured his rebirth of Yun’s (1927-2010) iconic artwork. According to Jimmy Shy’s remark for that publication, “Pinky Yun (…) is the godfather of the Asian […]

Swani’s Ceramic Fine-Line Tattoos

Post author By The Tattoo Journalist
Post date May 7, 2023
Categories In Animals, Color, Fine Line, Tattoo

Swani, a native of Seoul who is 31 years old, enrolled in 2014 at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Limoges in France, which offered a major in ceramic arts and design but ultimately decided to pursue a career as a tattooist. Before becoming a professional tattooer in 2017, he studied for two years under the […]

Upcoming Book Release: Tattoo Master Pinky Yun

Post author By The Tattoo Journalist
Post date January 18, 2023
Categories In Animals, Art, Birds, Body Art, Books, Color, Drawing, History, Legends, Tattoo

Scorpion Front Publishing will print “Tattoo Master Pinky Yun: The Don Ed Hardy Flash Collection” by author and American-Japanese tattooist Takahiro Kitamura in March 2023. The life and work of Pinky Yun, born in Canton, China, on October 29, 1927, are shown on 111 pages in a 90s-style graphic arrangement. Yun moved to Hong Kong […]

Adriaan Machete, Acclaimed Neo-Traditional Tattooist

Post author By The Tattoo Journalist
Post date December 27, 2022
Categories In Art, Body Art, Color, Conventions, Conventions & Shows, Identity & Empowerment, Interviews, Tattoo, Therapeutic

Inspired by the work of Renaissance and Art Nouveau painters, German tattooist Adriaan Machete is renowned worldwide for his delicate and exquisitely colored body art. His professional tattoo career began around 2007 after he apprenticed with Iban Maya. His major break came in 2010 when he was invited to be a guest artist in various […]