Please Mr Postman: An International ATC Exhibit! Call to Artists!
Sanctuary Tattoo & Art Gallery invites you to create some art for our International ATC show. Opening Party on August 6, 2010 and running till September 1, 2010. US Mailing Dates by July 25th.
Artist Trading Cards are 2.5”x3.5” pieces of art produced on sturdy paper, cardstock or other (non flimsy) surface. Anything goes with ATCs. The only limitation is the size. You get to choose your own theme, choose your own medium and make some awesome art that will be show with lots and lots of other miniature pieces of awesome art!
Perhaps the best thing about ATCs is that they are really portable and easy to work with and because they are so small they don’t take a million years to create. AND best of all, if you wish, you can receive different art by other artists in return for your submissions.
We’re gonna make this real easy for you. Sanctuary will provide a handy dandy kit including ATC blanks for you. You just make some 2.5”x3.5” art, fill out the form, Stamp and address your SASE & Send it back to us! In exchange you get to be part of our first international ATC gallery exhibit & you can receive another artist’s work back swapped for your submissions!
If you are interested in participating in our August ATC show please reply with your mailing address and we’ll send you everything you need to be part of this exciting show!
We look forward to hearing from you and seeing what you create!
Sincerely
–Jennifer Moore (jen(at)tattoofairy.com)
Sanctuary’s 10th Anniversary Benefit Bash at Port City Friday May 7th
Affirming Life & Beauty after Surviving Breast Cancer
This is a new piece featuring a client of mine whom I am working on a tattoo with across her mastectomy scars. We have since added flowers to the right side and will be adding more flowers on the left soon.
Tattoo Cover-ups Advice & Suggestions
Jen discusses tattoo cover-ups, how to prepare yourself for them, what you might expect.
To See My business partner Chris’s Vlogs go here!
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My Second Moly
So tonight I complete the art for the beginning of my Moleskine for iATCs G4 Moly Swap my theme is Past Life Recall: Self Portraits from our Former Incarnations.
This can be interpreted in many ways, aside from the obvious images from past lives you either actually recall or suspect you lived in a different incarnation, it can also be as past lives you’ve lived in this current life, past lives of your ancestors or other people you admire or even past lives you wish you’d lived.
My plan (best laid of course, yeah right, didn’t happen 
) was to create an MP3 mediation for everyone to do before they started drawing for this so that if they wished they can see what kinds of past life imagery they received for themselves. However with the launching of my new website Spirit Tattooing and the creating of a new 78 page portfolio which is currently in transit from the printers, this little idea simply did not have the time or space to occur.
There’s no wrong way to do this. Past life is completely open to your own interpretation.
You can represent:
• a former life from this incarnation (like my brief days as a singer in an alternative new wave rock band in Cleveland in the early 80′s)
• an alternate life that you could have lived but did not (like in some odd alternate reality I am an accountant, and in another I am a lawyer, and another I am a naturopathic doctor)
• a life you wish you lived
• a life you suspect you lived, a life that you have glimpses/flashes of living
• a life based on passions and interests you’ve had all your life that seemingly came out of left field (For example my almost 7 year old nephew went as a Union Soldier for Halloween last October because he’s been obsessed with the Civil War since he was a really little kid.)
• or a life you fabricate simply for our mutual amusement.
No matter what I am sure it will be perfect.
The Decorated Body Lecture
This slideshow was created for a lecture I co-led with my partner Chris Dingwell in a class called Decorated Body which Professor & Art Historian Aimee Bessire taught at MECA (Maine College of Art) & Bates College. Chris focused on the art and history of tattooing while I focused on the spiritual, social & healing aspects of tattooing. We each spoke for roughly 45 minutes a piece (boy howdy did we have a lot to cover in such a short amount of time!) and then took questions from the class. At this point Chris and I have offered this lecture 3 times.
