art and tattoos naturally go hand in hand. if a person has an interest in tattoos, then they automatically have an interest in art. art and tattoos have always fascinated me. ever since i got my first tattoo i have been researching them and other tattoo related things. while looking through magazines and looking at the internet one artist immediately caught my eye. that artist is shawn barber. alot of the art that i have seen from him are portraits of people with tattoos. however, these portraits are not done in a normal way. the people being painted are represented in a variety of different ways to highlightthe tattoos of the person. he also has a unique style of painting. he paints portraits with a high degree of realism, yet he style has a very painterly quality to alot of his works.
here are a couple of pieces by him:
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