Sunday, February 28, 2010

Sparrow

Balance Heart

simple birds

simple flowers

key with cherryblossoms...

 
bright collor chery blossom with cherry

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Origin of Tattoo Art

Tattooing was very common among all tribes across the world. Tribal people used animal bones as carving tools/instruments in tribal tattoo art. Tattooing was an accepted norm among these tribes although it was a painful process.

Most designs of tribal tattoos were replicates of animals, flowers, and other shapes as seen in nature. You can perceive these tribal tattoo pictures instantly. Tribal tattoo designs encompass tribal rose tattoo, tribal crosses, tribal dragon tattoos, tiger tattoo, turtle tribal tattoos, and lots more.

Tribal tattoos art and tribal tattoos designs do not depict any significant meaning in the modern world of tattoo designs. Tribal tattoos were essentially abstract tribal art forms put together with curves and lines. Ancient tribal tattoo pictures were in typical black colors. Recent depictions of tribal tattoo designs display innovative colors and tattoo designs like skull tattoos, star tattoos, heart tattoo designs, fairy tattoo designs, tweety bird pictures, lettering tattoos, and similar more.

Where to Tattoo?

Getting tattooed requires lot of forethought and planning so that you do not regret later. You can get tattooed on any part of your body. Arm tattoos, ankle tattoos, foot tattoos, thigh tattoos, tattoos on the lower back, abdomen tattoos, and tattoos on your legs, just name any part of your body and tattoo artist will start working on tattoo design.

You can browse through tattoo designs available on tattoo galleries, tattoo magazines, tattoo books, or scout the Internet for tattoo pictures and tattoo patterns. If you have any tattoo ideas, make your own tattoo design on paper and present it to your tattoo artist to carve it on your body.

When to get tattooed?

It is a common misconception that summer months are ideal for tattooing. As you wear short pants and expose major part of your skin in summer, tattooing may seem easier. But the heat can cause lot of discomfort while scripting any specific tattoo design on your body. Hence, winter is the best time to get tattooed.

Tattoo designers are able to work better during the cool months due to the low and comfortable temperatures. Tattooing is a long drawn process and you should remain seated in a tattoo studio for many hours. Certain tattoo designs could require many sittings. Winter is the most comfy season to remain seated indoors.

Most tattoo parlors are less crowded during winter and you do not have to get into a waiting list or even sit in studios for two or three hours awaiting your turn. All tattoo designs irrespective of specific tattoo art, tattoo ink, or body part tattooed require certain healing period. During this time, your tattoo may look extremely revolting and ugly. The cool winter season helps you keep your tattoo design covered comfortably allowing it to heal naturally. During the healing period, your tattoo design undergoes many stages like peeling, scrubbing, and similar others. Summer months may cause lot of irritation.

Nonetheless, tattooing in winter does have few limitations. You often face colds, coughs, and similar flu like symptoms in winter months. These afflictions take a toll on your body immune system. Tattoo designs take a longer time to heal and dry. If you want to get tattooed in winter, the best precaution is to maintain your health with sufficient intake of immunity-boosting vitamins.


 
 

Tattoo Kits

During the ancient times, tattoos are symbols of your status. It can also represent what chaste you belong to. To others, it may just be a stain on the skin. For rescuers, it is a way to identify a victim. There are various meanings to these designs. But what most people are missing is the fact that these designs of art on the skin cannot be made by any person. Tattoo designs require precision and accuracy…therefore, they can be done by a tattoo artist only.

For teenagers, it is normal to think that it is a cool thing to have a tattoo of an eagle on your chest or that obscure Chinese character on your forearm, but what they miss are the dangers involved with making it themselves. Tattooing should be left for the experts. These experts have been trained to the art and have learned the science involved as well. They are those who once wielded tattoo starter kits and are now tattooing for a living. Though it is true that they were once starters, it cannot be denied that they have also devoted their lives to learning more of the art that they are exploring. In addition to that, the safety measures that they are taking are also taught to them by experts before them. Even nowadays, tattoo parlors are required to have health certificates and not just any tattoo kit to get started. Today,tattoo kits, even the starter kits, are required to be sterilized and the needle needs to be made up of stainless tattoo steel.

Professional tattoo artists also dispose of the needles after they have used it on one person. This would help in preventing the spreading of diseases that can be transferred using a needle such as Hepatitis and HIV. Today, Tattoo artists do not forget to keep a lot of spare needles on theirtattoo kits for multiple sessions. In the seminars and forums that they conduct, they never fail to remind starters on how to be safe when they are using the tattoostarter kits that they have bought.

Drawing tattoos on your skin or another’s does not end there. A starter should still keep in mind that they need to be clean and that they should be safe. Tattoostarter kits and other tattoo kits for beginners are there to help people realize what they want and what designs they are capable of. These kits are all over the market to help would be artists conjure up designs and also to guide them on the different realms and principles of tattoos. It’s not just about getting ink on the skin or drawing animals on your back or legs; it’s an art and at the same time, a science.

Anyone thinking that tattoo designing and tattooing act is simple would be in for a big surprise. It’s not only complex; it’s very complicated. It may be as complicated as composing music or designing a house. But what I’m definitely sure of is that it is one of the explanations why there are tattoo kits and there are tattoo starter kits: a simple differentiation that there are rookies and there are professionals.