On my last trip to Texas, we made some serious progress on Austin’s tattoo @rockofagestattoo – what began as a half sleeve around an existing moth has become a body suit, it’s a slippery slope.
Thank you Austin for the perseverance and courage to keep going through this one, the torso is no joke…….. easy bits next?
My posts on this blog are sporadic to say the least…..
In an attempt to share some photographs of my work and keep posting…….
Here is Ryan’s back photographed on Ilford 4×5 hp5 film, using my Graflex Speed Graphic with a Schneider Xenar 210mm f3 Lens, taken last month whilst in Texas.
Thank you for looking, and thank you Ryan for getting this work done and sitting through all of it.
How is everyone doing out there?
I hope anyone reading this is doing ok and finding time to be healthy and safe during this crazy period.
This weekend I took up a fun little social media challenge from my friend @tomastomas108 – the #108sleevesinternetchallenge
I decided to post them on here also as it is quite a broad spectrum of my work, from my first ever sleeve on @jorgeteran into a selection of sleeves in somewhat chronological order, ending with one I finished a few weeks before the lockdown started. This represents approximately 17 years of tattooing.
I strongly recommend checking out @tomastomas108 work if you haven’t seen it before, totally mind blowing and his contribution to the art of tattoo is phenomenal. Thank you, to all the amazing clients through the years, can’t wait to get back to work. I’d also like to say sorry to those I didn’t include in this with sleeves from me, I don’t have all my photos anymore.
Stay safe and healthy out there.
Thank you for looking – Thomas.
Creating art is something that I have found to be a necessary way to feel at peace and ease with myself and my surroundings, creating art and ornamental decoration for the human body is a complete privilege and a total honor. It is something I constantly marvel at, it feels magical and is a totally surreal occupation for both the artist and canvas. Ted has been coming to get tattooed by me since 2012, we started at Saved tattoo in Brooklyn and continued in Austin Texas, at Rock of Ages, he is one of only a few customers who only get tattooed by me, a stoic and kind man who has constantly followed through, completing each stage of his body suit with a keen integrity. His level of commitment traveling from Port Perry in Canada to get tattooed is nothing short of incredible. As we round the corner to the final stages with only one session left on his legs and his sleeves to start and complete, I wanted to take a moment to thank him and share some images of our last two sessions that we just finished up this week whilst I was guesting at Saved Tattoo.
Thank you Ted for sticking with it on this journey, I really can’t put into words how grateful I am.
The first print in the JBXTH Series is available via the Burlesque of North America website.
https://burlesquedesign.com/collections/jacob-bannon-x-thomas-hooper
Last month I had the honor of collaborating again with my old friend and peer Jacob Bannon on a new print series called JBXTH.
Each print was made live at Full Bleed Exhibition last month in the Netherlands. A total of 100 hand painted were created alongside 80 mono printed backgrounds.
Embellished and mono printed 15×22” & 16×20″ prints, silkscreened and mono printed live at @fullbleedexhibition by @gemma_monostereo & @benbrlsq, each print in the series is an edition of 25/15 respectively.
These were available at the exhibition all weekend in April, and now the prints we set aside for online sales will be placed available consecutively in the coming weeks on the @brlsq website, starting this Tuesday with JBXTH I.
Thank you for your support and to everyone who came by the exhibition, said hi and/or picked up a print.
-Thomas.⠀
Hoopers Electric 
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