Symmetrical Goat tattoo, inspired by the film Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
On my good friend Ryan from Coliseum.
Thomas Hooper 2009, New York Adorned, NYC.
Archive for December, 2009
Holy Mountain Symmetrical Goat Tattoo
Eclipse Studies………..
Please excuse the crappy iphone pics, its christmas and im lazy.
I have been working on some studies of astral landscapes and eclipses for some future larger paintings.
Pheonix Acanthus Full Sleeve Tattoo
Finished this one a few months back, finally managed to get some good photos of it whilst we where starting a giant nautilus shell on her ribs. ( photos to come soon-ish)
Why do you get tattooed?
I rarely write anything of any detail or length on here, usually due to time but also because I don’t want to use this as a kind of soap box, drowning you with some half-baked theories and opinions.
Today I’m sitting here thinking about why people want these tattoos I do for them on their skin. Its one thing to buy a painting hang it in your house and enjoy it, but it’s another thing to go see a complete stranger and ask for your first tattoo to be your whole arm and then just jet them get on with it and draw all over you, this is a occurence that keeps happening to me, one for which I am extremely grateful although a little puzzled by.
I find my self often thinking “why do we get tattooed?”
Here are a couple of first time tattoos…………..
As the year 2009 draws to a close I find my self thinking back about what I got to do over the last 12 months, it is so amazing that people keep coming back to me for work that I find compelling and interesting.
I am extremely fortunate do get to do a lot of tattoos that I really enjoy doing.
I have updated my portfolio slide shows on my Flickr account, here are the links.
Any Given Sunday
The weekend is here…………..
Good day at work today, 10am appointment I got tattooed by shinji, then worked on these two leg pieces.
Then it snowed……………………
Heraldic, Skull, Keys and Acanthus Leaf Tattoo
Started this one about a year ago, great to get some more done on it, I wanted the lions in the crest to have a Albrecht Durer feel to the way they were drawn and tattooed.
