August 2014 - Carl Hallowell (Horisho)

Healed and Ready For Shading

Posted by Carl Hallowell
On August 21, 2014

Jeff likes to come in for four hours at a time and get work done. The first session consisted of us standing at the counter and going through some tracings and drawings, mostly stuff by the late B.G., and then jumping in the chair, and outlining the main designs. Over a couple more sessions we completed the […]

Posted by Carl Hallowell
On August 16, 2014

Yin, and Yang A clean back, a white piece of paper, amazingly inspirational and full of possibility… I like to choose Simplicity… Overwrought ideas look nervous, unsure of themselves… or cluttered, like a Dirty Closet… or suffocated, the line choked, unable to breathe… Most of this just things I’ve learned the hard way, what […]

Posted by Carl Hallowell
On August 7, 2014

Tattoos are a personal gift, given from one person to another. A tattoo can be applied to one’s own person by oneself, however, most are not. Tattoo artists must acknowledge that you cannot tattoo without the client, yet none of us are entitled to any client at all. Without both Artist and Client, a tattoo […]

Posted by Carl Hallowell
On August 2, 2014

What was great to me about these was that they decided to get an image based tattoo in the end. They had originally brought in a picture on their iphone of lettering alone. While tattoo lettering can be very cool, nothing beats that strong black shading, those open fields of color. It just looks like […]

Healed and Ready For Shading

Yin, and Yang

Tattoos as a Privilege, not a Right

One of a pair of sister tattoos done tonight.