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 of line weights. Even though it was this client’s first tattoo, he let Natan tattoo it large enough to fill up the majority of his ribs and sat through a full four hour session, allowing Natan to really pack in a lot of detail and refinement.

Stone Lion

To book out your time for some custom work with Natan, just give us a call in the shop at 978.744.9393 or send us an email at 978.744.9393.

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 pieces.

Micah contributed the following ball-point pen drawing from an on-going series he is currently pursuing. Keep your eyeballs on their site, www.skullsbook.com, for information on the publication of their second volume, in which Micah has four more featured drawings.

Giraffe Skull

As the shop apprentice, Micah is always looking for some smaller and simpler work to flesh out his portfolio. Make sure to give us a ring in the shop here or send us an email if you think you have a piece that would suit him well!

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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 chance to start some work on his arms. After tattooing a bunch of cartoon characters on his legs, he finally gave me the go-ahead to start work on filling up his arms with black and grey skulls, demons, zombies, and really anything else along those lines. We settled upon this warthog skull I drew up for him and got to work fleshing out some gaps in his sleeves.

As the shop apprentice, I’m always looking for some smaller, simpler pieces to help flesh out my portfolio. I’m currently pushing towards a more traditional style, so make sure to give me a ring in the shop here if you have anything in mind!

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Trevor's 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 to see you in September for an unparalled value of FOUR FULL DAYS!

Registration for artist, shop, and vendor booths is now open and available in advance in order to guarantee your spot for this coming year. Click on the link below to download our .pdf form or head over to www.bostontattooconvention.com for more information.

See you in Boston!

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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 sleeve, Gary requested that Natan tattoo a big gold fleur de lis on his shoulder for yesterday’s session. For this piece, Natan decided to really push his color theory by sinking rich blues, greens, and purples into the shadows to really make the striking chroma and texture of the gold pop out. Check out the results below and make sure to give us a call to book out your time with Natan for your custom piece today!

Fleur de Lis

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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 in winter painting projects, so make sure to stay tuned to the site here as we post up all our new work!

Tibetan Dragon

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Around here, the winter months are always a key time for all of us to polish up on our painting game. Along with the rest of the crew, Natan has been fine tuning a lot of the paintings from his body of work and framing them up for gallery shows and the shop. Check out this large acrylic painting of Dainichi Nyorai Buddha which is characterized by Natan’s painterly emphasis on vivid, bright colors seated within a solid foundation of linework and drawing.

Dainichi Nyori

Natan is always more than happy to work with clients on translating techniques found within his paintings into custom tattoos and is currently booking consults for a couple of weeks out.

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This past Friday, Matt tattooed this piece of a realistic raven strolling over a couple of roses on our shop friend, Donna. Always good for a conversation about music, art, or life in general, Donna was cool enough to just let Matt run ahead with this tattoo and make it something he would really enjoy working on. Matt ultimately whipped out this bright, saturated, and smooth piece, which Donna was thrilled to be the proud new owner of.

If you’re interested in talking to Matt about any new custom projects of any sort of wildlife, nature, birds, or other fun custom subjects, make sure to contact us over here at the shop and get yourself booked in for a consult today!

Raven and Roses

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Check out some new work recently completed by Matt of a couple birds on a forearm. In this piece, Matt utilized the painterly style that he’s known for to accentuate the soft gradients of tone and subtle chromatic shifts. He’s always a fan of working on projects that allow him a bit of freedom to really flow in his own direction and this ended up being a great piece for him to experiment with a couple techniques of focus, color theory, and shading. If you have any soft, painterly, or illustrative work in mind, make sure to give us a ring and book up your time with Matt today!

Birds

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A couple of weeks ago Natan had a chance to finish up one of his finest Japanese koi fishes to date! His repeat client and shop friend, Mickel, had been coming in for a couple of hours of work on his half sleeve every few weeks and now his piece is completely done, fine-tuned, and healed. Natan utilized the freedom Mickel gave him in working on his half-sleeve to explore some intricate color theory relationships, challenge himself to approach traditional finger waves from a new angle, and keep a tight control on balancing hyper-bright areas of detail against strong, solid, dark wind-bars in the background.

Natan is always excited to dive into new large-scale custom work that challenges him to top or re-invent subjects from his past body of work, so make sure to ring us up or just pop on by the shop if you’ve got any ideas you would like to work on with him!

Koi Fish

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