Total Tattoo – August 2019

(Nancy Kaufman) #1

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What research and studying
do you do to ensure you
keep evolving as an artist
and tattooist?
I like studying natural forms –
wood, bone, rocks and so on –
and just trying to figure out how
they look when the light falls this
or that way, and whether that
effect can be successfully achieved
in a tattoo. Even looking at
something as seemingly banal as
a landscape painting can give you
countless ideas about depth,
perspective and atmosphere. The
inspiration is everywhere.

'If tattoos were just a fashion


accessory without any spiritual


depth, how terribly boring the


whole thing would be...’


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