Inked

Inked Through out the pages of time, the second layer of human flesh became the first canvas for art. Today, this form of art is called tattoo. Just as a canvas is stroked by a paint brush, human skin is inked with a needle to create a permanent masterpiece. Loaded with as many meanings as there are global cultures, tattoos come in different sizes, shapes, styles, and designs. People wear tattoos like clothes that symbolize the runway of their life. Today tattoos are widely accepted across…

AE #5: Formal Visual Analysis  The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David a. The medium of the artwork was oil on canvas. b. The work’s dimensions is 5 ft. 3 in x 4 ft. and 1 in. c. The Death of Marat was originally created in France, but can now be found at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. d. The genre of the painting is history. e. Jacques-Louis David painted the Death of Marat as a memorial to Jean Marat, who was a dear friend of his. f. When David originally painted the Death of…

the most vanilla of establishments; no. Pairo had gone and taken him to one of the roughest, toughest, most notorious tattoo parlors in Yorkshin, the Inked and Slashed, where the only thing that ever managed to successfully overcome the smell of stale vomit in the air was the cigarette smoke that hung over the place like a perpetual cloud. The Inked and Slashed was the place to go if you were…

The members of the First Church of Cannabis in Indianapolis gathered on Wednesday for the pot-smoking church’s first holy service. The inaugural service of the First Church of Cannabis happened on the same day that Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) took effect. The church’s congregation consisted of people wearing colorful shirts with pictures of marijuana leaves, the Christian Science Monitor details. Police officers stood outside the church in anticipation of a rowdy service.…

Tugboat Printshop is owned by Pennsylvanian husband and wife team Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth and they are woodblock master craftsmen. Together they produce original, extremely detailed woodblock prints. Each print that is created from a woodblock is unique. Their style that they use is very intricate with elaborate designs and shapes that add texture to the medium. I really enjoy all of their artwork but I am drawn to the Moth that is pictured below. It measures 16 x 21 inches. Woodblock…

get during their years of youth. Those qualities are often necessary to explore the choices to move further in life with satisfaction. The ripening of berries is as juicy and adventurous as the time of youth for each human individual. “Then red ones inked hunger sent us out with milk-cans, pea-tins, jam-pots where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots”. This line takes the reader to the next stage in life where filled with some wisdom an individual is ready to grab the experiences…

themselves with words or text. Furthermore we conceal ourselves through layers of surface or in contrast become a beacon of identity through our surfaces. This point can be shown in the expansive scene where Nagiko and Jerome make love (fig 3). Their inked bodies bearing words tangled in clothing covered in calligraphy, show surface in play that makes the visual reading of certain scenes in The Pillow Book difficult. Decorated skins merge into decorated clothing and clothing fuses into skin.…

experimenting with the printing press. Around 1444, he created a device which used a rectangular frame with inked movable type heads which could be pressed on paper to create texts. To create a text, you would need to place the movable type heads in the desired order on the rectangular stalks and then press the rectangular frame down on a pool of ink. Once the movable type heads were inked, they were pressed down on a sheet of paper. This was the printing press, and the possibility of being able…

animation at its purest, where every line is visible and you can see how the animator thinks. Inserted from; http://penciltests.tumblr.com/ Pencil tests are basically the clean up, but once those pencil frames are satisfactory, then they are permanently inked, photocopied onto cels, and given to artists who use acrylic colors to paint the details for each cel. When that is finished it is then time “motion capure” and photographing the cels to give that illusion of…

was used to print almost anything such as religious books, advertisements, and even literary works Working the Printing Press was hard. As it shows us in Document 1, the printing press worked by arranging moving metal type, then the type would be inked, and pressed down to paper. Before the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press, a scribe would write a book by hand from the dictation of a scholar. The printing…