Scottish Tattoo Convention

The Scottish Tattoo Convention has just been, and it was loads of fun! Loads of artists from all over came, tons of locals representing Scotland and people from Italy, America and all over Europe were tattooing and getting tattooed. I took tons of photos, on snapchat, haha so these are the ones I remembered to save while snapping.

Kris tattooed on the Saturday, I expected him to only do one tattoo and ended up doing four, so that kept me busy in the later hours, but we had loads of fun at our booth, even if it is a bit hectic working in such a smaller space than you are used to.

Dominika was tattooing on the Sunday, she ended up working all day on a massive calf piece, It was really cool watching that all come together, and I ended up getting a tattoo from DAP, out of Skingdom in Italy. All day Saturday I kept seeing the line drawing of this chameleon and I loved it so I ended up getting it. I also entered my leg in for best small black and grey by Dominika, which was an interesting experience as well.

All around it was a great show and I wish I saved more of my photos of other artists working but it was all so hectic I must have forgotten.

Dixon was also lovely and was repping my new stickers on his board!

DAP on Instagram

Skingdom Tattoo

Scottish Tattoo Convention Preparedness Week

The Scottish Tattoo Convention is this weekend and I am getting pretty excited, I have a wee bit of merch this year, I managed to have stickers printed and prints from one of my paintings for sale. The stickers came in yesterday on regular paper sized sheets so I had a fun night of cutting those wee guys out over and over and over. The painting I managed to sort out on Monday, but if I were more on the ball, I might have had a bit less of a frantic week this past week. I had been thinking about doing a painting for the convention since about November, but I only actually started painting it around the 14th of March, I know I am pretty good at procrastination right! But it worked out, I finished my painting and found a printers in Edinburgh to make me prints, so look out convention here I come!

We bit of my progress shots of the painting slowly but surely coming together.

Also a wee bit excited that I sad I would post and look at me here I am posting!

February Recap

February was also pretty darn busy, I got to do the pizza ghost and Totoro ghosts from my flash sheet from January and I got to do a couple out of my available drawings book as well, which I was really looking forward to doing, as well as a few walk ins. Its amazing the power that Facebook has to connect you to people. Nearly everyone of these was because of a post on Facebook, which makes me feel very humble that someone would see something I have made and reach out and collaborate and get something from me. Its a very cool feeling indeed. 

Joe also trusted me to start blacking out his shoulder, which looks pretty alarming in the photo as we thought it looked pretty metal in the photo with all of the blood. I haven't got a before picture, but he had a very scarred owl underneath all of that black that he just didn't want to see anymore and simply didn't want lasered, so I covered it up, by now we have done a bit more on it and finished it off, just a touch up session to go. So possibly more on that soon.

The Scottish Tattoo Convention is coming up next week so hopefully I will have one more post in the mean time, but if I don't hopefully I will have some good stories to tell from that!

If you do feel so inclined my Facebook page is here, usually far more thoroughly updated than here but hopefully going forward that will change.

Courtenay Dickson Tattoo

Scottish Tattoo Convention 2015

The 5th Annual Scottish Tattoo convention was on the 28th and 29th of March, and since I now work for a tattoo studio, (did I not mention that, well I will expand on that soon!) I was working at it on the Saturday. I worked my other new job on the Sunday, so while working the booth I tried to make the most of seeing everyone who was working there. The people who were working the convention this year were totally amazing again, and I got to see some of my favourite people working. I had to exercise a lot of self control and save all my money when I was able to make my way around the show.

I am not working at Plus 48 Tattoo, in Edinburgh three days a week, and so I was assisting Kris while he did his large tattoo on the Saturday. So assisting entailed, setting up the table and station, getting inks and machines poured and set up respectively, and then being on hand for the 5 or so hours that it was going on to get them anything they might need.

I got to go round the show a couple times before the end of my day, and I bought a tiger print by the amazing Andrea Giulimondi, some patches on from Xam who was also amazing, and grabbed a butt load of stickers. I need to get a frame for my print but I love it and it was amazing watching the traditional hand tapped tattoos being done as well as seeing techniques that some of the other artists use. It was a great time.

Unfortunately my photos stink this year, and I will get better ones in the future, hopefully, when I go again! So see you next time STC 2016

The Scottish Tattoo Convention

Last weekend I got to go to the Scottish Tattoo Convention last Saturday, and I had a pretty brilliant time! I went with my pal Mhairi, and for all the practice I have had making sure I am taking photos of things, I totally did not take photos. I know, whats the point! Mhairi wanted to get a gap filler from someone, and I just wanted to see some amazing artists and get Paul Slifer's book. Unfortunately Mhairi didn't get tattooed, the people she liked were all booked up, though she did find some artists she really liked.

Unexpectedly an artist I really like was there, and while I was checking out his booth  I realized that he wasn't busy, so I ended up getting a tattoo by the fantastic Deno, you can find him on Facebook here and here. His stuff is amazing and I got my Narwhal I have been wanting for a wee while now. So all in all you can say I am pretty chuffed! 

It was really cool watching the way he drew it from scratch and how he tattoos it was very very cool.

Safe to say I picked up a lot of business cards but it will be cool to look back and see some of the artists and I will actually know how to find them.

Dixon and Darren decided to stay home while me and Mhairi were out at the convention, so safe to say they were pretty hungover the next day, but nothing like a wee trip through the Tesco clothes section to make you feel better.

I did get Paul Slifer's book, but my picture of it is rubbish so that will have to come another day.