Alaska based artist Gustavo Rimada has been drawing since before he can remember.
His work reflects his proud Mexican heritage, using a combination of Cholita style girls, Mexican Folk Art, 50’s Pin-Up, Pinstriping and tattoo style design.
His influences range from the original old school tattooist Sailor Jerry and pinstriper Von Dutch, right through to artists of today such as Sylvia Ji – Just don’t call him a rip off!
Peter Taylor is an artist from Vancouver, Canada. His paintings are known for focusing on a single figure whose facial expressions and bodily positions exude a combination of playfulness and meditative contentment. Because of his background in graffiti he is known for working in large scale. By depicting his figures at near-human scale, he encourages his audience to identify and interact, while recognizing at the same time the paradoxical nature of this approach: just as they approach human size, the characters defy proportion and verisimilitude by their at-times bizarre contortions and swollen features.
More of Peter’s playful, meditative, tattooed figures after the jump.
Some candid photos of artist Jon Todd at work in his studio. Photographed Jalani Morgan.
Angelique Houtkamp was born in the Netherlands in a town called Uithoorn. She became a tattoo artist at the age of 30 while living in Amsterdam.
Her work is described as “deceptively simple, instantly recognizable and often humorous”.
Along with tattooing and painting she has also published 2 books, Tattoo Darling & Tattoo Mystique.
Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez also known as “Dr. Lakra” is a Mexican artist and tattooist. He creates his art using dolls, old medical illustrations, pictures from 1950s Mexican magazines and other objects he finds to create his own unique style.
If you’re in the SF area, be sure to check out Shawn Barber’s latest/amazing exhibition at The Shooting Gallery.
Sun Media’s Heather Toskan reports on the crossover of the tattoo & fashion worlds.
“Exploring the body as a platform for electronics and interactive skin technology”
