HELLS ANGELS

Biker chicks in 1965

I really enjoy browsing the Life galleries from time to time. Not that I am the kind of person who goes bazookas over a photo just because it's old and it's vintage, but they do have some fine sets of those, as well as newer ones, often with interesting captions or stories.

Sew You Want a Cool Tattoo? Check This One out from Vicky...

I met Vicky back in August outside of Penn Station and marveled about the colorful vibrancy of this beautiful tattoo:

Vicky explained that she is a seamstress for a new company called Cupcake Provocateur. Check out their site, it's pretty cool. Vicky's boss, Cynthia, is the brainchild behind the business, designing all of the aprons and other housewares, as well as making the cupcakes. There are several tattoo-inspired apron designs on their site, including this one, which would make a great holiday gift, no?

But back to the tattoo, Vicky hopes to grow this tattoo into a half-sleeve, and it started out as a design that she had Angelique Houtkamp design for her. "It wasn't drawn exactly the way I wanted it," Vicky explained, so she took it to Sunday Dawne-Marie at Skinflower Cosmic Arts in Phoenecia, New York and, she continued, "Sunday went with my basic idea, an antique sewing machine in a cameo, and re-drew and re-designed the entire thing."

I am most familiar with Sunday's work at Lark Tattoo on the poet Adam Deutsch.

Thanks to Vicky for sharing her amazing tattoo with us here on Tattoosday! We look forward to seeing the sleeve grow in the future!

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Why do they cancel the best?

Die Uni hat ja schon letzte Woche wieder angefangen und wie ich auch schon mal geschrieben habe, ist mein Plan ziemlich leer, was unter anderem daran liegt, dass wir kein Technisches (Mode)zeichnen mehr haben. Das ist total schade, weil mir der Kurs am meisten Spaß gemacht hat und von allen Kursen am meisten was mit Mode zu tun hatte (Modedesign (entwerfen und nähen) hatten wir nämlich nur komprimiert als einwöchigen Workshop, statt als regulären Kurs das ganze Semester hindurch).

Hier sind einige Zeichnungen, die während des Kurses entstanden sind.

Übrigens: das ist der 100. Post und es werden noch viele, viele mehr folgen. Das bloggen macht mir nach wie vor viel Spaß und das ist vor allem durch eure Feedbacks der Fall. Also Danke fürs lesen, kommentieren und verfolgen. 

ENG: College started a last week and as I told you already my schedule isn't really packed. One reason is that we don't have technical (fashion)drawing anymore. Which is total crap, because it was the class I liked the most.  Besides it was the class, that let my feel I really study fashion design, because it had to do with fashion (We had fashion design (designing & sewing) but compressed into a workshop-week, because the professor didn't want to teach us every week a whole semester.

Nevertheless here are  a few drawing I made during this class.

By the way: this is the 100. post and the will be a lot more, because I still have fun blogging. Mostly because of your feedback, so thanks to my readers, followers and commentators.

Bluse, Givenchy

Trenchcoat, Max Mara, SS 2010

Kleid, Yves Saint Laurent, 2003

Kleid, Alessandro Dell' Acqua

Kleid

Kleid, Moschino

Overall, Desigual, SS 2010

Brogues

Shakara Ledard Lower Back Tattoo

Shakara Ledard is a lovely Bahamian model and actress, perhaps best known for her work with Sports Illustrated and Maxim magazine.

Shakara Ledard has a single visible tattoo, which is located on her lower back and appears to be a tribal design of sorts, perhaps a horned animal of some kind?

Jerry Lawler Crown Tattoo

Jerry "The King" Lawler is a legendary American professional wrestler, commentator and actor, who has won more than 140 championships over the course of his lengthy career.

Jerry Lawler is known to have a single tattoo located on his left wrist, and the design is a small kings crown. Checkout the pictures below.

Graffiti 3d >> alphabet 3d graffiti letter blue

GRAFFITI ALPHABET | GRAFFITI ART | GRAFFITI GRAPHIC DESIGN

Graffiti 3d >> alphabet 3d graffiti letter blue

Thanks for checking out my Graffiti Alphabet page.Leave a comment guys.Peace

Graffiti artist >> Solveig graffiti artist 11year old

GRAFFITI ALPHABET | GRAFFITI ART | GRAFFITI GRAPHIC DESIGN

Solveig from Brighton, UK. he was 11 years old at the time, truly amazing work by a daughter at that age.
Thanks for checking out my Graffiti Alphabet page.Leave a comment guys.Peace[via]

Draw graffiti letter by with white color spidol

GRAFFITI ALPHABET | GRAFFITI ART | GRAFFITI GRAPHIC DESIGN

Draw graffiti letter by with white color spidol

Thanks for checking out my Graffiti Alphabet page.Leave a comment guys.Peace[via]

WELL...

...one can't always succeed.
But that was a damn shame on those fine molds.

(In my defense however, if such a one would be needed, I did manage to produce a lot of other nice not only eatable but rather delicious things during the same cooking sessions as the black rolls above. And I should have seen it coming; cleaning the house while cooking and baking and doing the hair and make up at the same time has to result in at least one minor fail I guess.

Ironically, and by coincidence -of course- on the same night, Fiona brought me this fifties vintage housewife come-in-handy-booklet on how to manage the chores of the house lightly. Just in case, might come in handy in the future then ;)

Jackie's Vintage Postcard

I caught up to Jackie after she passed me in Penn Station and I was delighted when she agreed to share her tattoo with us:

It's a truly remarkable piece, and I was thrilled to hear it was tattooed by the amazingly talented Amanda Wachob at Dare Devil Tattoo in New York City. She is well-known for an amazing eye for detail for tattoos that appear as if they were just painted on. I mean, look at this delicate touch on the back side of the piece:

Jackie explained that the tattoo is inspired by art in a book of vintage, early 1900's postcards that she found from Pleiades Press. She credited S. Solomko as the artist who created the original piece which inspired this tattoo.

She loved the vintage appearance of the original and Asked Amanda to recreate that feel.

She also loves, from an artistic perspective, the female form, and the sensuality of the peacock feathers fanning out at the bottom of the tattoo.

 

Again, I can't help but marvel at Amanda's artistry and how she paints on a tattoo:

Thanks again to Jackie for sharing her amazing tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!