The Beauty Project Interview

I am pleased to have contributed to this local project celebrating the creative in life:

Published on Apr 29, 2014

http://thebeautyproject.squarespace.com a collection of videos aimed at understanding the vital necessity of creativity in our everyday lives. Pat Fish is interviewed by the beauty project about her craft of tattooing. Watch more artist interview videos, featured guests' artwork and hear music samples at our youtube channel: http://youtube.com/user/tbpcommunity. The Beauty Project offers creative, inspirational videos about fine arts, theater arts, visual arts, performing arts, photography, music, dance, folk art, creative arts. Join the community to be inspired and discover new artist videos each month.

Celtic HazMat Tattoo

The bravery and skill of those who are trained to respond to emergencies with hazardous materials is celebrated in this custom tattoo, melding Celtic knotwork with the NFPA hazardous materials identification diamond and a skull-and-crossbones. Today a Fire Captain who is a HazMat coordinator came from Indiana to design and receive this back piece - a badge of courage. 

Celtic Hazmat Tattoo by Pat Fish

This pattern is available for purchase and immediate download at

http://www.luckyfishart.com/hazmatcelt.html

"NFPA 704: Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response"

Luna Moth and Bee Tattoos

This good returning client is slowly building up a sleeve of her enthusiasms, including flowers, fairies, and insects. Today saw the addition of a luna moth and a bee. She tells the tale that her tattoos attract appreciative comments from young girls in particular, who are impressed to see this nice Mom with little kids sporting quite visible work. Hooray for Tattooed Moms!

Luna Moth and Bee Tattoos by Pat Fish

A sleeve to live up to!

Today's project has a lot to live up to! This "Pictish Keymorphic" right forearm received both People's Choice and Artists' Choice Awards for best tribal tattoo at the National Tattoo Association convention last weekend in Garden Grove, CA. On the heels of that big win, today Ben is back in the studio to achieve balance with a complementary spiraling pattern on the left side. It took a lot of planning and figuring to make a maze of triple spirals interlocking and filling the same amount of arm. This way they are a pair with entirely different energy and flow, and a new way to look at "tribal" tattoos..

To read more about how this kind of custom sleeve tattoo is accomplished, visit the Full Knotwork Sleeves page.

The award-winning Pictish Key Pattern Sleeve and a Spiral Complement under construction