http://witchcityink.com Award winning tattoo shop North of Boston in Salem MA Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:57:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Another new piece recently finished up Natan, this faceted heart piece presented an intriguing challenge in terms of creating a realistic flow of light across various planes. This large, free-flowing piece also allowed Natan to play around with creating some contrasting, bright, vivid filigree work in the background to help ... http://witchcityink.com/2010/03/10/new-work-faceted-heart-by-natan/ Recently Natan finished up a variety of new work, ranging from religious pieces to traditional Japanese. This detailed cross with rosary beads focuses on tight, crisp details, a subtle use of green highlights, and a smooth organic flow, as directed by the motion of the rosary beads. Although this was ... http://witchcityink.com/2010/03/10/new-work-cross-with-rosary-beads-by-natan/ Another one of Natan's recently completed pieces is this Japanese Half-Sleeve. Asked to incorporate a number of different meaningful objects for the client, including his children's names, specific traditional style flowers, wind-bars, and finger-waves, Natan sketched together this composition. As with the cross that he recently finished, Natan always really ... http://witchcityink.com/2010/03/10/new-work-japanese-half-sleeve-by-natan/ Another one from Natan's latest batch of tattoos is this black and grey dragon from the other day. Natan's always a fan of working with traditional Japanese subject matter and pushing himself to build off of his existing body of work. This piece features an emphasis on repeating patterns and ... http://witchcityink.com/2010/03/10/new-work-dragon-by-natan/ Just the other day Natan got the chance to tattoo this big stone lion piece on a young new client of his. In this piece, Natan really concentrated on experimenting with a couple of different techniques based around developing realistic light sources, subtly implying different textures, and balancing a variety ... http://witchcityink.com/2010/03/10/new-work-stone-lion-tattoo-by-natan/ Resident shop apprentice, Micah, has one of his drawings featured in the recently published book, Skull Book Volume 1. Collecting together black and white artwork of skulls by tattoo artists around the world, the first volume of the Skull Book ranges from realistic and representational work to stylized and abstract ... http://witchcityink.com/2010/03/10/micah-featured-in-book-of-skull-art/ Just last Sunday I got to tattoo this black and grey warthog skull on my buddy Trevor's arm. Trevor is one of my favorite Salem locals, a super metal dude with a big beard who rides around in our bike crew every day and I was psyched to get a ... http://witchcityink.com/2010/03/10/new-work-by-micah-warthog-skull/ Join us over the long Labor Day weekend for the 9th Annual Boston Tattoo Convention on September 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th 2010!! This year, we are proud to present our new location with the finest accommodations Boston has to offer; the Boston Back Bay Sheraton Hotel. We hope ... http://witchcityink.com/2010/03/03/registration-now-open-for-the-2010-boston-tattoo-convention/ Natan just completed this piece on our sailor friend, Gary, yesterday. Although he's often away at sea for long stretches of time, Gary always makes sure to find some time to swing on by the shop to continue Natan's work on his detailed fisherman sleeve. In addition to his ongoing ... http://witchcityink.com/2010/02/17/new-work-fleur-de-lis-by-natan/ One of the other new paintings recently completed by Natan is this here Tibetan Dragon piece. Another work done with acrylic paint on wood panel, Natan decided to vary the surface consistency on this piece by experimenting with different background textural components. Everyone here at the shop is still knee-deep ... http://witchcityink.com/2010/02/16/tibetan-dragon-painting-by-natan/