Artists
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Circle who is known as a graffiti artist started his artistic career by decorating the walls in the Stockholm area and other cities in the early 80's. In the beginning of the 90's, he started to get a combined interest in the tattoo art. Later on he opened Circle tattoo 1995.
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Erik Reime Founder and manager of Kunsten pa Kroppen (The Art on the Body) Born in Stavern, Norway 1950. Moved to Denmark 1965. Studied sociology at University of Copenhagen. Refused military services, and instead worked at a library in Vanlose, Copenhagen for one year in 1975. Worked in a political bookshop for 10 years. Worked for Greenpeace. Apprenticed as a tattoo artist at Tato Svend in Nyhavn, Copenhagen. Started "Kunsten pa Kroppen" in 1988.Erik was one of the first to pick up tattooing by hand, using a technique that has been around for thousands of years, but is not much known today (used mainly for special designs, though)Works mainly in Black and White, Graphic and simple. Using a wide variety of ethnic & historic designs from all over the world, as inspiration for his unique tattoos. Read more |
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Jon Pall, Like most artists, tattoo artists have their own specific styles that they excel at and styles that they are not so good at. But when it comes to the 34 years Old Icelandic artist Jon Pall, it is difficult to say… he amazingly excels at Oriental, Colored and Black & Gray styles. Even though the artist himself prefer crazy colure style but I find his Black and Gray portfolio amazing and remarkable due to his fine shadings that create photo-realism. Black and Gray are customary used for portraits or for achieving a very realistic effect. The artist's concentration is focused on the line and shading of the piece. Black and gray tattoos are generally believed to have started in prisons in the United States and the advancement of this underground technique was refined in the 1970's, turning black and gray or 'joint style' tattoos into a mainstay of modern tattooing. Jon Pall’s diversity of skills is probably due to his mixed artistic background. After study one year at Reykjavik School of Arts and Crafts at the age of 19 Jon Pall traveled to Greece there he was educated in tattoo art by the master artist Pavlos Mamatsis. Pall opened his first studio in Reykjavik in 1993 which he worked there until 1997 before goes on to Vancouver studying classical animation at Capilano College. After graduating from college he worked as illustrator, 3D animator and lead designer for a numbers of video game companies and film production including SR studios, CCP, and Lazy Town productions in Iceland for some years before he return to his old passion tattoo art and open his new studio the Icelandic Tattoo Corp. there he work full-time today. |
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