Feeling a little bit of spring on it's way yesterday. It's making me think about yellow and black, bumblebees to be exact! Here's a little tableau of some of my bee related objects. I sometimes see myself as the Queen bee, stinging people with my tattoo needles.
All you girls who won the contest, I just wanted to let you know that I sent your packages out on wednesday. Please drop me an email or a comment when your package arrives.
I've had this book for ages. I bought it mostly for the cover art by Ronald McRae. The story is light and funny about a clumbsy NY writer who finds himself Hollywood's darling. Inside in the list of other books by Carl Van Vechten, I found that he wrote The Tattooed Countess. I found a copy, but was disappointed that the cover didn't look like this one. Maybe I'll do a tribute image of how I image Ronald McRae would do.
That was probably the best day of 2012 (already!) and now that I survived last thursday which will probably go down as the worst day of 2012, I think I can look forward to a mild rest of the year!
See that "Done with Electricity"? That means this is a battery pack, supposedly the best, smoothest power you can use for tattooing. I used to work that way, but my unit was enormous and no good when I was moving around so much.
Many people are opposed to taxidermy. I feel kind of ambivalent about it. All I know is that as an artist, I find it incredibly inspiring. All the colors and expressions. The animals stand still as if to pose for my painting.
Paleontology and it's grand era are a great sorce of fascination and ideas.
Deyrolle is a beautiful shop and you just want to stay a while, maybe have a cup of tea and fill a sketchbook. If you're ever in Paris, you should go check it out.