and Tattooed Lady #3!

Posted on April 22, 2018 by mimik

Stars and stripes for this lady.

Tattooed Lady #2

Posted on April 21, 2018 by mimik

She has some fancy skeleton tattoos.

Tattooed Lady 1

Posted on April 20, 2018 by mimik

Now for some ladies.

Tattooed Lady 2

Posted on December 7, 2017 by mimik

More black and red, just a different combination!

Day of the Dead tattoos.

Last lady for a bit- tattooed dancer

Posted on July 21, 2017 by mimik

She is a curvy dancing lady with so many bows!

You can’t really see but there is another bow (black) on the back.

And here is all three ladies-

Now it is time for more dyeing and sewing before I get to make anymore tattooed people. Next week the forecast is for cooler weather so that sounds like a good time to pull out the dye pots. In the meantime, lots of other projects to work on.

here comes another lady

Posted on July 19, 2017 by mimik

Tattooed lady #2.

She has a bull on her back. Not sure what that should mean…

tattooed lady 1 for summer

Posted on July 18, 2017 by mimik

I tend to gravitate toward the same colors when I work on these tattooed people- almost always some red, and then black and blue. Sometimes I feel the need to force myself to do something different- so, orange and brown! Aren’t her star and moon pants amazing?!

Doves on her breast and geese on her arm.

time for another trigger warning

Posted on March 30, 2017 by mimik

Politics again. Well, we won on the health care for now but yikes, so many other things. It is easy to get disheartened.

I made the WTF fellow and photographed him at the beginning of the month. Then I decided I should make an entire rally! It’s been an interesting experience. I’ve written about how uninspired and creatively dead I’d been feeling since November, but once I started thinking about this project, I was on a roll! I got excited about making a range of people- race, gender, species(mermen, greenmen!) and I found my focus.

The most difficult part was coming up with my protest signs. I was limited to 12, small signs so not too many words, I wanted to stay mostly positive, SO many issues to choose from… in the end I figured don’t overthink and just get the photos taken!

I am inspired by both Salley Mavor and Mary Engelbreit speaking out about what’s been happening in our country. It is not the time to be silent. I never would have guessed that those 2 would be my most politically vocal social media friends.

And here they all are!