Download or read book Alphabets Scripts Tattoo Design Directory written by Vince Hemingson and published by Book Sales Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are thinking of getting a written tattoo, the examples and symbolic explanation of the mantras, alphabets, and fonts featured in this book will inform and inspire.
Download or read book Mythical and Spiritual Tattoo Design Directory written by Russ Thorne and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the ultimate reference guide for artists and wearers alike. It covers the most popular types of mythical and spiritual tattoo designs with unique illustrations from some of the leading artists working today. Accompanying each type of design is a detailed explanation of the history and symbolism attached to it, so that anyone researching a tattoo will be sure to find one that perfectly expresses their beliefs. This book will also appeal to anyone with an interest in tattoos and tattoo art, traditional tattoo forms and techniques, or even religious symbolism and iconography. The canvas of the human body provides almost infinite scope for mythical and spiritual tattoos, and this book acts as a lively, informed companion for every spiritual quest.If you wish to express your faith?"whatever it may be?"to the world, there is an immense library of tattoo symbolism to choose from. The tattoo will be with the bearer for life, so it is important to consider the meaning and design of any tattoo carefully. With more than 800 images, no body artist should be without this uniquely comprehensive volume. The flash drawings and explanation of the symbolism of all tattoos featured in this book will inform and inspire.
Download or read book Tattoo Design Directory written by Vince Hemingson and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tattooing is an ancient practice with many modern applications. Tattoos adorn the body as decoration and mark rites of passage. They are worn as a symbol of devotion or to protect the spirit with a talisman, and serve as a memorial to commemorate special events in one's life. Body art is endlessly creative, requiring technical skill and artistic expression. This book is the essential reference for body art and artists. As a guide, this book will help the tattoo artist to maintain a sure grasp of the principles and techniques involved in successful tattooing, and introduce them to a vast range of characters and motifs for producing traditional iconography and modern symbols. If you are thinking of getting a tattoo, the flash drawings and symbolic explanation of the tattoos featured in this book will inform and inspire. This hardcover book has a description of the history and culture of tattoos, the symbols often seen in body art, and the techniques used in tattooing. The instruments used for tattooing, and advice on how to choose your artist, make sure that you are safe when treating your tattoo, and what to expect when you go in to get your tattoo. The detailed design directory is an up-to-date reference that includes easy-to-follow flash drawings of the most popular tattoo symbols, new styles, and innovative designs. Accompanied by photographs showing how a design translates to the skin, and an explanation of the traditional significance of each design, this book is a necessary reference for anyone considering a getting or giving tattoos.
Download or read book How to Draw Tattoo Style written by Andy Fish and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with background ranging from "old school" nautical motifs to tribal and Oriental styles, this well-illustrated guide offers expert tips on creating tattoo flash art of skulls, hearts, dragons, other images.
Download or read book Inked Tattoos and Body Art around the World 2 volumes written by Margo DeMello and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 1005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, tattoos have gone from being a subculture curiosity in Western culture to mainstream and commonplace. This two-volume set provides broad coverage of tattooing and body art in the United States today as well as around the world and throughout human history. In the 1960s, tattooing was illegal in many parts of the United States. Today, tattooing is fully ingrained in mainstream culture and is estimated to be a multi-billion-dollar industry. This exhaustive work contains approximately 400 entries on tattooing, providing historical information that enables readers to fully understand the methods employed, the meanings of, and the motivations behind tattooing—one of the most ancient ways humans mark themselves. The encyclopedia covers all important aspects of the topic of tattooing: the major types of tattooing, the cultural groups associated with tattooing, the regions of the world where tattooing has been performed, the origins of modern tattooing in prehistory, and the meaning of each society's use of tattoos. Major historical and contemporary figures associated with tattooing—including tattooists, tattooed people, and tattoo promoters—receive due attention for their contributions. The entries and sidebars also address the sociological movements involved with tattooing; the organizations; the media dedicated to tattooing, such as television shows, movies, magazines, websites, and books; and the popular conventions, carnivals, and fairs that have showcased tattooing.
Download or read book Working as a Tattoo Artist in Your Community written by Jason Porterfield and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tattoo artists spend years learning their trade before taking on their first customer. They not only study art and techniques, but they also learn about disease prevention and maintaining sanitary and hygienic conditions. It is only after they pass certification tests and receive a state license that they can begin work. They serve as valuable members of their communities, helping to anchor business districts and bringing customers not only to their own studios but to other shops as well. This handy guide describes the steps necessary to be a tattoo artist, open a studio, and build a clientele.
Download or read book Voice of the Fish written by Lars Horn and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lars Horn’s Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven essay collection that explores the trans experience through themes of water, fish, and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a debilitating back injury that left Horn temporarily unable to speak. In Horn’s adept hands, the collection takes shape as a unified book: short vignettes about fish, reliquaries, and antiquities serve as interludes between longer essays, knitting together a sinuous, wave-like form that flows across the book. Horn swims through a range of subjects, roving across marine history, theology, questions of the body and gender, sexuality, transmasculinity, and illness. From Horn’s upbringing with a mother who used them as a model in photos and art installations—memorably in a photography session in an ice bath with dead squid—to Horn’s travels before they were out as trans, these essays are linked by a desire to interrogate liminal physicalities. Horn reexamines the oft-presumed uniformity of bodily experience, breaking down the implied singularity of “the body” as cultural and scientific object. The essays instead privilege ways of seeing and being that resist binaries, ways that falter, fracture, mutate. A sui generis work of nonfiction, Voice of the Fish blends the aquatic, mystical, and physical to reach a place beyond them all.
Download or read book Tattoo Culture written by Lee Barron and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tattoos are a highly visible social and cultural sight, from TV series that represent the lives of tattoo artists and their interactions with clients, to world-class sports stars and the social actors we meet on a daily basis who display visible tattoo designs. Whereas in the not-to-distant past tattoos were commonly culturally perceived to represent an outward sign of social non-conformity or even deviance, tattoos now increasingly transcend class, gender, and age boundaries and arguably are now more culturally acceptable than they have ever been. But why is this the case, and why do so many social actors elect to wear tattoos? Tattoo Culture explores these questions from historical, cultural and media perspectives, but also from the heart of the culture itself, from the dynamics of the tattoo studio, the work of the artist and the world of the tattoo convention, to the perspective of the social actors who bear designs to investigate the meanings which lie being the images. It critically examines the ways in which tattoos alter social actors’ sense of being and their relationship with time in the semiotic ways with which they communicate, to themselves or to the wider world, key elements of their bodily and personal identity and sense of being.
Download or read book Total Tattoo Book written by Amy Krakow and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive book yet on this unique art form. Whether flaunted or hidden, sought as art or curiosity, the tatoo has left its mark on generations. From its beginnings as a pagan ornament to today's popular body art, this book takes an intriguing look at the world of tatoos.
Download or read book Body Type written by Ina Saltz and published by Abrams Image. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and text explore the ideas and emotions behind typographical tattoos, describing why people choose such dramatic images and how it can help people express themselves.
Download or read book Getting Inked written by Larry Gerber and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces information about getting a tattoo, including choosing a tattoo, choosing where to place it, care and safety concerns, and how to remove a tattoo.
Download or read book Teach Yourself Henna Tattoo written by Brenda Abdoyan and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color your world with the fabulous art of henna tattoo with this book of patterns and instructions for the body and even home decor objects! Learn how to combine the 5 basic henna shapes into a variety of exotic mendhi designs.
Download or read book Tattoos and Popular Culture written by Lee Barron and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of tattoos into the mainstream has been a defining aspect of 21st century western culture. Tattoos and Popular Culture showcases how tattoos have been catapulted from 'deviant' and 'alternative' subculture, into a popular culture, becoming a potent signifier of 'difference' for the millennial generation.
Download or read book The A Z of Death and Dying written by Michael John Brennan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and informative resource provides readers with an understanding of the social, cultural, and historical influences that shape our encounters with death, dying, and bereavement—a universal experience across humanity. Written in an engaging and accessible style by leading international scholars and practitioners from within the field of death and bereavement studies, this book will have broad appeal, providing in a single volume insights from some of the key thinkers within the interdisciplinary field of death, dying, and bereavement. Its approximately 200 entries will serve as useful starting points for those new to the topic and will be informative to those already acquainted with some of the core concepts and ideas within this burgeoning field of inquiry. This encyclopedia will serve as an essential resource for high school and undergraduate students, those engaged in independent research, and professionals whose work involves caring for the dead, dying, and bereaved. It will also be of great interest to general readers intrigued by the social, medical, and cultural dimensions to human mortality. Underscored by the inescapable biological certainties that affect us all, The A–Z of Death and Dying offers a highly relevant examination of the social and historical variation in the rituals, practices, and beliefs surrounding the end of life.
Download or read book The Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering written by BJ Betts and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking reference covering the key styles and schools in contemporary tattoo lettering. This book includes step-by-step guides to lettering design from a wide array of leading tattoo artists. Covering the history and context of tattoo design, as well as offering a comprehensive instruction in hand lettering, this guide is packed with enough detail to fascinate anyone interested in tattoo design. Learn to recreate all of the most widely used techniques—from embellishing West Coast letter forms to mastering calligraphic style—with guidance from one of today’s most influential tattoo artists. Each chapter also includes an account of individual styles’ histories, complexities, and relevant substyles, along with interviews spotlighting leading practitioners and galleries of innovative tattoo design. The Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering is as much a technical handbook for professional tattoo artists as it is an introduction to the manner in which tattoo styles inform other graphic arts. Fans of typography, calligraphy, and graphic design are sure to learn techniques that they can apply to their own projects. And for those who aspire to design tattoos or already work with them, this book is an indispensable guide. Guaranteed to instruct and inspire, it is an essential resource for anyone interested in tattoo art.
Download or read book Sleeves written by Skills Institute Press and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roll up your sleeves and get ready to learn the best methods to construct and attach common sleeve designs, so they’re balanced, straight, and attractive. Thinking about making a new dress or restyling an old coat to give it a contemporary look, but don’t know which style of sleeve to use? The choices are seemingly endless and every good seamstress knows the design is in the details. Select-n-Stitch Fashion Elements: Sleeves will help you decide. Whether long, short or none at all, sleeves give shape, comfort, and style to your garments. The detailed instructions inside this handy guide will show readers how to sew both classic and trendy sleeves for shirts, dresses, and coats. Among the techniques included are making a sleeve for a tailored shirt, adjusting or restyling the pattern for a sleeve, and making a sleeve placket. By selecting the sleeve of your choice, you’ll add the perfect detail to your own designs while defining your individual style.
Download or read book Leading Successfully in Asia written by Kim Cheng Patrick Low and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the essence of leadership, its characteristics and its ways in Asia through a cultural and philosophical lens. Using Asian proverbs and other quotes, it discusses leadership issues and methods in key Asian countries including China, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia and Singapore. It also explores the leadership styles of various great Asian political and corporate leaders. Further, it investigates several unique Asian philosophies, such as Buddhism, Guan Yin, Confucianism, Ta Mo, Chinese Animal zodiac signs, Hindu Gods, the Samurai, the Bushido Spirit and Zen in the context of leadership mastery and excellence. Offering numerous examples of a potpourri of the skills and insights needed to be a good, if not a great, leader, this practical, action-oriented book encourages readers to think, reflect and act.
