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Arent Tattoos Brilliant?

Thomas Hooper — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:05:00 +0000

I am very lucky to say, I love my job. Here are some photographs of some healed older tattoos and some fresh off the arm rest new work.

Stephanie’s hands below, she gets the award for being the raddest client ever, and that’s saying something because I am pretty blessed by how amazing my clients are.

Pietro’s sleeve finally finished, only 6 years later…………………… !!!!!

It was a collaberation between my self and the Guru Jondiximoazzabeuno Mahashakti.

This really fun bottom of the sleeve filler add on was done today, Thank you Jorge!!!!

This one was done about 3 years ago on Sean, we finished the skull and acanthus on the inside of his arm last week.

This six eyed wolf was alot of fun, texture and detail………….. yes please!

Thank you to all the people who have been subscribing to this blog lately, i really appreciate the support!

OLD MAN GLOOM 2012

Thomas Hooper — Wed, 02 May 2012 02:51:49 +0000

So as anyone who knows me will know one of my favorite musical groups is Old Man Gloom, featuring members of some of my top ten bands – Cave In, Zozobra, Converge and ISIS.

I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to design a poster for their upcoming show in Brooklyn (May 8th at Europa – the Gloom haven’t played in years and to say I am excited is an understatement)

Getting the opportunity to design art to compliment music that inspires me is an amazing and humbling moment in my life, I really am honored, thank you to Rich Hall for giving me this chance and for booking the show.

The three color Silkscreened Poster will be 12.5 x 19″ and for sale only at the Brooklyn NY show. (if there are any left some may be available online)

One will be randomly given away to a person who purchased/purchases a ticket to the show.

tickets available here….

TicketWeb.com

I realize that my extreme taste in dark heavy music may not be for everyone who visits my blog, but for now you will have to excuse me for going on about this even more…..

If just seeing Old Man Gloom isn’t enough for for a fan of this type of music….

Old Man Gloom has a new album. It’s called “NO”. It will be available as of tomorrow, that is Wednesday May 2nd. For the time being it will be available only at the Old Man Gloom live shows happening this month, and in the meantime there’s this.

(Taken from Aaron Turner – Feral Pig)

(I didn’t create the art above, if i were to guess it was created by Aaron Turner)

AS ALWAYS THANK YOU FOR LOOKING.

Nate’s Back

Thomas Hooper — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:22:31 +0000

Actually Nate has been back quite a bit since I first tattooed his palm.

I think we have done about four sessions on his back so far, I am pretty stoked on this one, its a huge leap in a direction I want to push my work in.

Much larger patterns and bolder subjects mixed with some super detailed elements.

And yes this one has even more mandalas in it. Thank you Nate for being so Rad.

Repetition is Beautiful.

Thomas Hooper — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:13:06 +0000

Well that’s my opinion anyway, whilst i never ever repeat an exact tattoo, a lot of my patterns are very similar to one another.

This is something very deliberate, in fact I love repetition, it is why I am so drawn to mandalas and geometric patterns.

You can never have enough mandalas. I love what I do and I am very honored to have people like what i do enough to have them on there bodies.

Everything has a begining

Thomas Hooper — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:46:13 +0000

This is a photograph of me doing my first tattoo on a paying client many many moons ago in Folkestone at Steve Graves Tattoo Shop – Steve thank you for giving me a chance.

No, I’m not, I’m with the Underhills.

Thomas Hooper — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:34:09 +0000

Shot of a painting before I finished it.

Everything has been done before – all I am doing is regurgitating chewed up bits of inspiration.

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
Albert Einstein

The Observatory – Catacombs

Thomas Hooper — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:16:10 +0000

I recently had the honor of contributing some art work to an amazing album by The Observatory from Singapore.

Catacombs is an amazingly dark and atmospheric multilayer-ed rock album, I’m not even sure if that is the correct description or not but I have been listening to this non stop since I received the demos.

Pre Ordering is up for the record here – http://www.theobservatory.com.sg/ I am really excited to see this one as an LP.

CATACOMBS by The Observatory Trailer1 from The Observatory on Vimeo.

A big thanks to Keith Utech for making it happen so i could be part of the artwork of this record and doing such a beautiful and clean job of the layout and design.

Below is a description of the band from another website. (http://comesingapore.com/events/view/11916/the-observatory-catacombs-the-concert)

The heart and soul of The Observatory is in its constant reinvention. With each release, the members have persisted in their experimental take on the pop songform. In 10 years, The Observatory has gone from folk electronica to prog to avant rock, approaching a more primal, new dark wave sound with their fifth album, CATACOMBS. Putting preoccupations about genre aside, The Observatory explores music that’s texturally complex, viscerally emotional and splintering in its bleakness. A study in delusion, insanity and obsession, CATACOMBS provokes and inspires in a deeply enigmatic way. Even at its coldest and most abstract, it is human to the core.

Tessellation Time.

Thomas Hooper — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:45:21 +0000

Taking a break from doing my yearly filing…….

Having a little fun with some tessellations.

My apologies to anyone who has emailed me in the last two months, my current response time for emails is about 4-6 weeks as I handle all of this personally and it takes a long time to work my way through them between drawing and tattooing.

thank you for your continuous support – Thomas.