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!

Halloween is Fast Approaching

The end of October is fast approaching and I have made a certain amount of progress with Drawlloween, hopefully today I will blaze through a whole bunch more again after I am done all of my cleaning that needs doing. But I have made it 18 which isn't bad. I can deal with having done that many, so if I can continue and do more I will be so excited.  Not to mention a few non drawlloweens in there as well. So the ones after the gravestone are client drawings so you should be seeing those as tattoos soon.

So it has been a really good month for drawing and tattooing as I have a couple of those to share soon and a few lined up to do.

I've also finally set up my own Facebook page for my drawing and tattoos so head over there for more up to date updates.

https://www.facebook.com/courtenaydicksonart?ref=hl

 

Inktober

Got a few more drawing requests finished up today, one more nearly done but the final linework is still coming, both of these still are yet to be coloured but it will be a lot of fun, the brussel sprout is for Dixon so I think I will be able to drag him back into the studio soon for more tattoo times and hopefully I get to do the praying mantis soon!

Also its the first couple days of Drawlloween/Inktober, so hopefully I stick to this, but here are my first two efforts for it they were a lot of fun. 

More Tattoo Time

Whoop, I had a busy week last week, I felt like I was tattooing left right and centre! Though I guess it was mostly legs, but it was such a fun week, With Kris on holiday and Dominika and Joe unwell, Saturday I had the whole shop to myself which was fun and unnerving at times, depending when and what type of customers came in. But when Kat came in for her ship we just locked the doors as that was definitely going to be way easier than worrying about anyone coming in. The day before I Did Steven's Ghostbusters tattoo and finally finished off Dixon's smashing blouse we started ages ago! But we've now started another one so hopefully I can get him in next week to finish the pig off as well.

A couple weeks ago now as well Ross who got the pterodactyl (pteranadon) came in to get an old star filled in so I took the opportunity to snap a wee mostly healed photo of it from him as well.

David Bailey

Gail and I went to the David Bailey exhibition at the National Gallery the week before last, and it was brilliant, it was amazing the people he met and knew. And of course the photos were stunning, I had a lovely day with Gal looking at everything, I always enjoy a good exhibition. It was unbelievable to me that he knew and was personally invited to things by the Krays, and was friends with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali. I surreptitiously took a few photos of some of my favourites.

Drawing Time

Its been a busy drawing week for me, had a lot of requests from people, so that has kept me busy, I think every single drawing in this post has an owner, or hopefully owner. So that has been a lot of fun! Its been a busy couple of weeks, with summer coming the Dungeons has been super busy, and the studio has been well booked up. So busy bees all around. Whch makes me doubley happy I have been able to draw so many things.

So lots of fun for me, the progression of size in Alana's goldfish was fun, I only needed to draw the body once, and then the tail kept growing and growing, but it came out really cool, and I'm glad we kept extending the tail, it really suits the piece.

Big huge thanks to the comic Bitch Planet, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Kate Leth for the inspiration for this last piece, I am so excited that Beth asked for this and can't wait to do get tattooing this piece!