New Work by Natan: Bats, Cars, Birds

With the summer months upon us, we’ve seen an influx of interesting projects coming our way. At a custom shop, it’s always rewarding to be approached with a piece that is not only technically feasible, but artistically challenging and engaging. Natan’s been hard at work on a number of such pieces, including the following:

Bats!

Although Natan is generally only working on larger tattoos, he often revels in whipping out fully-realized and highly-rendered one-sitting pieces. These bats he completed on a local barista find a delicate balance between Tibetan-inspired flourishes of line-work and a vivid, painterly color-theory.

Car (In Progress)

We seem to have had a number of vintage custom car fanatics down at the shop lately, such as this woman, who began this tattoo rendition of her car the other week. Old vintage cars always shine as tattoos, with broad flowing lines and bold blocks of color and Natan served justice to this one with elegance.

Foo Dog (In Progress)

Known for his strong and colorful style, Natan is commonly commissioned for large Japanese work, such as this foo dog half-sleeve. This recently completed second session saw the introduction of a dynamic and complex color-theory to the solid foundation of line-work already in place. Keep a look-out for more pictures of this piece in the upcoming weeks!

Phoenix

After many sessions and much hard work, Natan completed this full back-piece on local shop-friend, Mike. An on-going project for quite some time now, both Mike and Natan were proud to finally get in the last bits of color and wrap up this piece. When people ask Mike how many tattoos he has he says one…

Natan is available for appointments at Witch City Ink Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays and over at Lightwave Tattoos (Route 1, Saugus) on Thursdays and Fridays. Send us an email, give us a call, or just stop on by the shop to start planning for your custom tattoo with Natan today

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New Work by Natan

Natan recently discovered a cache of photos on a thumb drive, including this cosmic flowers backpiece from a couple of years back. Highly indicative of Natan’s bold and colorful style, this piece encompasses many spiritual symbols important to the wearer.

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cosmic flowers

As always, give us a ring or send us an email to book out a free consult with Natan for your own custom tattoo!
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New Work by Natan: Cherubs and Roses

As part of a live demonstration for today’s Salem Arts Festival, Natan completed this black and grey cherubs piece. Although he is most well-known for his bold, vivacious, and colorful style, Natan also relishes the opportunity to tackle projects necessitating soft black and grey work. While still maintaining strong foundational elements, this piece allowed Natan the chance to focus primarily on conveying the forms of the cherubs and roses through rendering and tone.

Check out more of Natan’s projects under his portfolio page and give us a call in the shop to book a free consult with him today!

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New Work by Steve: Dog and Tiger!

Couple of new ones in from Mr. Steve Gillespie. First up is the second session on this Japanese tiger half-sleeve he's been working on:

2nd Session Tiger Half-Sleeve

Secondly, Steve recently completed this dog portrait:

dog portrait

Check out the rest of Steve's work on the website here and give us a call or stop on by to book out some time with him today!

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Start of Tiger Half-Sleeve by Steve

Steve just started this half-sleeve of a traditional Japanese tiger half-sleeve. Just outlined so far, but check out the progress below:

Tiger Half-Sleeve (In Progress)

Updates to come as he begins coloring it in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned and don't forget to call or email to book an appointment or free consult for your own custom tattoo today!

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Natan featured in the Salem Arts Festival

The Annual Salem Arts Festival is coming up again this year from June 3rd through the 5th. As part of the activities, our very own Natan will be featured as his tattooing is spotlighted, live, for the general public to come view, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday, June 4th. A veritable open house of the tattoo shop, make sure to stop on by to check it out!

Salem Arts Festival

The SAF website proclaims, in regards to the event:
The Salem Arts Festival promotes the arts in downtown Salem with a festival for residents and visitors. This festival provides the arts community an opportunity to showcase their talents. The Festival will run June 3-5, 2011 in Salem at a variety of venues from juried exhibitions and demonstrations to live performances. It will appeal to the sophisticated art patron, the art lover, the art enthusiast, and the art novice, and will include interactive events for children. People of all ages and backgrounds will find something that will delight and educate them by reaching out to current art patrons, local students, and the community at large.

For more information, please visit their website at http://www.salemartsfestival.com and stay tuned to our page for upcoming details on Natan's featured spot! Hope to see you there,

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Visiting Salem? Book out an appointment today!

Coming to town to enjoy the weather, see the sites, and walk around? Pick up the perfect souvenir, a tattoo! Take a look at the artist portfolios on our website and facebook and give us a call today to book out an appointment in advance. See you in Salem!
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New Work by Natan

Last week, Natan got the chance to finish up this half sleeve of imagery relating to the beast of revelation. This piece features an interesting balance of both illustrative and geometric techniques and gave Natan the opportunity to play around with a diverse and out of the ordinary subject matter.

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Beast of Revelation

Natan is booking out a couple of weeks in advance for custom work monday through wednesday at Witch City Ink and Thursdays and Fridays at Lightwave Tattoos. Give us a call to book out your time today!

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New Work From Natan

We just posted up a bunch of new work from Natan into his portfolio page for your viewing pleasure. There's a variety of different projects in there including these two beauties below:

First up, a finished photo of this big owl piece Natan's been working on for awhile, characterized by Natan's bold and bright style:

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owl

Next up is this dog portrait with an aztec-inspired geometric frame encompassing it. Something a little bit out of the ordinary to spruce it up:

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You can take a look at the rest of the new pieces over within his portfolio and give us a call in the shop to schedule a consult for your own custom work with Natan.

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