Recently, getting a tattoo has become one of the very most popular ways to use art as a way of self-expression. In the past, society associated tattoos with a rough crowd-motorcycle gangs, rock musicians, and sailors-but today almost anyone you come across on the street either has a tattoo or is thinking about getting [...]
There was a time that the majority of tattoos were done in a dark dingy tattoo shop found in a back alley near a seaport. Most persons that got a tattoo were sailors, prisoners or gang members. Today, tattoos have moved mainstream and tattoo shops will tend to be located in the fancy shopping mall [...]
Although tattooing is really an old art form, it was not until the later part of the 1960′s that tattooing became popular when formally trained fine artists started to practice their trade on skin instead of traditional mediums. At first, tattoos were negatively viewed in American society, however in recent years society’s opinions have changed [...]
It would appear that more and more people are obtaining tattoos these days. There are a growing number of artists that create and show their particular talents in the form of tattoos. Tattoo artists are from all over the world and have some of the most known shops many are in the U.S in [...]
Getting body artwork has grown to be very popular during the last twenty years. Tattoo shops have popped up everywhere in large and small towns alike. The young and old alike are lining up to get artwork done; in fact it seems one out of ten people have a tattoo these days. While there are [...]