Monthly Archives: April 2010

So this time I figured I would show the process from beginning to end.  Not sure how many sittings here, but this one was earned by good friend Rudy.  So I documented this one from sketch to finish…

Greetings to all!!  So here we are with this back piece shy one session from being completed.  This piece is on Danesh who wanted to base his back on his roots in Sri Lanka. I used bits from various hand carved Sri Lankan masks , ornament from wood carvings, and surrounded it with water because Sri Lanka is an island.  The conclusion of this journey will be posted soon..

This tattoo is on one of the Angle family clan members. It is a stylized version of  Tibetan lotus and was meant to sit alone and eventually grow into a sleeve way down in the future, but it seems like it will happen sooner than we thought.  Will post the progress….

I think maybe this one was started two or three years ago?  But we picked up where we left off, so now we begin the color.  The other side is dragon and will post pictures of the completed sleeves when we wrap up the tiger.  Also this Thursday April 22 a movie about the Tibetan struggle “The Sun Behind the Clouds” will premier at the Arc Light in Hollywood at 9:30 p.m.  As always peace and thanks for all the comments and emails.

Greetings to all.  This piece here is the back of a dragon sleeve I started about 2 years ago, still some details left before I post the whole sleeve.  Also wanted to remind everyone that the Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River exhibition is on it’s last weeks at the Pasadena museum of California Arts.  Buy the book and see the show!

Last month I was fortunate enough to go learn more about TIbetan painting  in Northern California.  The trip definitely has shaped me and cemented my direction with my work and tempo of life.  We were there a week long and the subject was “om mani padme hung”, a Tibetan prayer. We painted with some of the locals and some people who travelled from really far to learn from Mr.Weber.  The studio was at an organic farm and just being there and meeting the owner was enough to blow me away.  It offered an opportunity to look at a more responsible way of living and how much more I need to learn about Tibetan painting.  I posted up the pictures of the farm where we painted, the dogs we hung out with,  and also a picture of everybody’s paintings from the end of the week.