Second Tattoos

Russian Art Body Painting Festival

source : http://fenyu.org/russian-body-painting-festival/

Halloween Bonus: Zombie Pinup

Back in September I posted Little Dead Riding Hood, courtesy of Amy, who I met in Penn Station.

Amy has a new tattoo, which she generously shared:

It's a zombie pin-up girl, and appropriate for the holiday today.

Like the previous piece, this was created by T.J. Mcinnis at Mcinnis Tattoo Company in Providence, Rhode Island.

Thanks again to Amy for sharing her tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Have a safe and ghoulishly fun Halloween!

Amazing Wall Painting Place

Painting the walls do not work, that passion and only creative people with imagination can do. Maybe they were too tired, I do not know. But you can see some but this cool picture and you will see. It seems a little color on the front wall you can actually make it more beautiful to the eye.

source : http://thecontaminated.com/cool-wall-painting/

Choose the Right Tattoo

Matt has twenty-three (23) tattoos and he offered up this simple trio of letters:

The CTR represents the expression "Choose the Right," a common thread in the ideology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more commonly referred to as the Mormon church.

In essence, Matt explained, it means "follow the right path". Its akin to a mantra eschewing sinful activities frowned upon by the church like drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, doing drugs, and, yup, you guessed it: getting tattooed.

Matt finds great power in this tattoo because it represents an oxymoron: the letters CTR stand for a way of life that is contradicted by the fact that they have been tattooed on flesh. It would be like a Jewish person having the phrase, in Hebrew, "You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or imprint markings upon you: I am the Lord" tattooed on them. As a tattooed Mormon, this is Matt's way of addressing,and coming to terms with, the disparity between faith and his love of tattoos.

This was tattooed by a friend of his in Ogden, Utah.

Thanks to Matt for sharing his ink with us here on Tattoosday!

Western Painting - Body Painting - A Contemporary Yet Ancient Style of Being a Canvas

Body Painting - The Intricacies

The origin of body painting is unknown, but its use has been widespread - sometimes as an art form, sometimes as a part of tradition, and the other times, as a necessity. The evidence of body painting is found in ancient practices across various cultures and remains a popular fashion statement in the present times. There is no set style or technique for body painting. It can be a localized design or a fuller one, covering the entire body in some cases. The color pigments used can be natural or synthetic. Similarly, it can be a work of an expert or an amateurish hand of a novice. However, unlike permanent tattoos, body paints are temporary or semi-permanent in nature.

The Geographical Spread
Painting the body was prevalent in ancient Egyptian civilization, where Pharaohs and high-class individuals painted their faces in red ochre & white pigments, and eyes in kohl. The Himba group of Namibia also generously uses red ochre. These people paint their entire bodies in the uniform pigment, as a traditional practice. In India, body painting is an elaborate work of expertise, which requires training and a lot of experience. One of the best examples of this art is the make-up of Kathakali dancers that involves the use of white, red, black, and yellow colors against a base of bottle green color, on face.

The use of 'henna,' a natural plant extract, is very popular among the Indian women across the country and is again, done by trained experts. Henna is used for decorating the hands and feet in beautiful, complex designs. Native Americans use streaks, concentric circles, and other patterns of colors, which include red, white, yellow, blue, and black. The indigenous Yolngu people of Australia use detailed and painstaking technique to embellish their bodies. It is an inspiration for many other art forms and a job that only the experts can do.

Painted faces have been a trademark of comedians and mimics, throughout the history of performing arts. Body painting has found as much use in military operations, as in local communities. Facial colors, particularly in nature tones are heavily employed as camouflage by almost all armies in the world. Now days, this art has become a fad, especially among the youth and is treated more as an avant-garde fashion accessory, rather than as a religious belief. Across the US and Europe, body painting is used in theatre, cinema, fashion, carnivals, and body painting festivals. Despite facing criticism and rejection from various corners, this art continued to grow and is still evolving!

DORMITORIOS EN TONOS PASTELES: RECAMARA AZUL CLARO Y ROSADO

Me preguntaron cómo quedaría decorar un dormitorio rosado con azul, pero azul me parece que es muy fuerte para combinarlo con rosado. Sin embargo, si el azul es claro, es decir celeste, queda muy lindo generando una habitación en tonos pasteles. Esto es lo que encontré:

Lovely pink/white/blue for the girls' room: jotan23.blogspot.com

Imagen de dormitorio: channel4.com

Azul un poquito mas fuerte si hace un gran contraste con un rosa casi fucsia tipo lápiz de labios: La calidez del rosado hace el dormitorio mas divertido y joven. Ideal para la habitación de una joven adolescente.

Bold blue makes a great contrast to a lipstick pink - and the warmth of the pink really makes the room fun and young looking. Ideal for a teenager's room, it suits a not too feminine scheme, too. Ikea

Fotos del dormitorio en tonos pasteles: spearmintbaby.com

Is Not Tattoo But Art Body Painting With Theme Of Yakuza

France's model girl shows the Art Body Painting all over her body, with the theme of Japanese Yakuza pictures.

Last 100 years Painter : Mark Rothko

Born in Dvinsk, as Marcus Rothkovitch Russia, he immigrated to the United States at the age of ten and shortened his name. Rothko

studied at Yale University and the Art Student's League in New York, is also his style gradually developed over the years spent teaching for a living. The early works of expressionist portraits and urban landscapes, followed by the Surrealist phase Arshille influenced by Gorky. Rothko began to paint the color of his famous pieces of the field in 1947. Although this work a success, his personal life tortured by depression and alcohol, which ended in suicide in 1970.

There aresome Mark Rothko artwork :

Sexy girl Tattoos

Sexy Flower Tattoos

Sexy bird tattoos

Shiri's Logos

"Excuse me," I called, loudly, on the 34th Street train platform, "Can I ask you about your tattoo?"

Anyone reading this who has been featured here may recognize this as my opening salvo. Most people are open to my questions. Very few dismiss me. For this I am thankful.

Shira was the woman to whom I was speaking, and she was very welcoming to my inquiries.

Here is the best of the many tattoos I saw she had:

It's a fairly intricate (and extremely well-done) replica for one of the album designs for a band named Sponge. Shiri had a matching t-shirt, but taking a picture of that would have been borderline creepy, in my opinion. Unfortunately, the only image online I could find was small:

On her left arm she had two other band designs:

The one on the right is from the group Gogol Bordello, which surprised me as I had seen a similar tattoo several weeks before (and recounted here).

The logo on the left was from a group called Spookey Ruben.

Obviously, Shiri is a big fan of all these groups. The tattoos were all inked by her brother Ron.

You can see other band-related tattoos by clicking on the appropriate tag at the bottom of the post.

Thanks to Shiri for sharing her cool tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Cute girl Cute Tattoos

Cute girls cute tattoos

Face Painting in Korean Body Painting Festival

Awesome photo models who participated in the World Body Painting Festival in South Korea in 2008.

Last 100 years Painter : Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was a Florentine artist, one of the great teachers of the High Renaissance, which is also celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineers, and scientists. Love-depth knowledge and research is the essence of both artistic and scientific efforts. His innovations in the field of painting influenced the course of Italian art for more than a century after his death, and scientific studies-particularly in the field of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics-anticipated many of the developments of modern science.

Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in the small Tuscan town of Vinci, near Florence. He was the son of a wealthy Florentine notary and a peasant woman.

In the mid-1460s the family settled in Florence, where Leonardo was given the best education that Florence, the intellectual and artistic center of Italy, could offer. He quickly advanced socially and intellectually. He was handsome, persuasive in conversation, and a fine musician and improvisation. About 1466 he was apprenticed as a garzone (studio boy) to Andrea del Verrocchio, Florence's leading painters and sculptors of the day. In Verrocchio workshop Leonardo was introduced to a variety of activities, from painting altarpieces and panel pictures to the creation of a large sculpture projects in marble and bronze. In 1472 he entered the painters guild of Florence, and in 1476 he was mentioned as Verrocchio's assistant. In Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ (c. 1470, Uffizi, Florence), the kneeling angel at the left of the painting by Leonardo.

There are some Leonardo's Painting :

Adoration of the Magi