The permanence of a bonafide tattoo isn’t for everyone, but when the weather heats up it’s hard to deny how fun it can be to express yourself with a little artwork on some bare skin. Tattly‘s serious rise in popularity over the years speaks to this common interest, and while it’s easy to love the brand’s artistic designs, there’s always room for more. Germany’s TATTOOTATTAA …
Several years ago, we visited artist David Sena‘s studio to peep behind the curtain and find out about his unique process. Sena (who has given a few CH staff members tattoos in the past) creates large-scale artworks using an unusual method: the Cooper Union graduate “paints” almost exclusively using fireworks. The results are fantastic. The artist translates rough burn marks and leftover trails from smoke …
by Hugh Hart Joseph Ari Aloi graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1994 armed with dozens of sketchbooks, self-described ADD, a set of tattoo implements and a headful of eye-popping mythologies inspired variously by Star Wars, Sanskrit calligraphy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock and Viking iconography. Working as a tattoo artist, Aloi (aka JK5) propagated his ornate letterforms by word of mouth, forearm, back …
