BOOK OF FLOWERS TATTOO FLASH

http://www.bullseyetattooshop.com/

Just another one of the many projects that I am working on.....

Bullseye Tattoo Shop in Staten Island is an amazing Tattoo Studio, full of many creative and talented artists. Their work is unique and they can gear their art for each and every client or you can choose from over 25,000 original designs.

For awhile now I have been drawing many different stylized flower designs and I am lucky enough to have the opportunity to have these published by them, a Book of Flowers.

I am very excited..and I will keep you posted..

Take a peek at their shop and the incredible work they produce..and if you have the opportunity stop by or make an appointment...you won't be sorry...

Artist: Steve Skelly

Artist:Victor Modafferi

Artist: Liz Manzolini

Artist: Cesar

ILLUSTRATIONS TO HOME ACCESSORIES

Recently, I have become drawn more to the landscape of my illustrations and this is what has fueled my interest in design.

A very good friend of mine introduced me to an amazing website, which allows an artist to explore a different avenue of the arts. It allowed me to translate my illustrations to home accessory design, and I am having a ball creating fun, unique items for the home. It has opened so many new doors for me and I am running with it.....

Soon I hope to have a series of wallpaper and textile designs and a line of fashion apparel....so keep your eyes peeled....the skies the limit...

You should check out my online shop at Envelop for a sneak peek at some of the items I have been toying with...Enjoy..

http://www.envelop.eu/shop/designers/p/detail/tamara-weiss

ARTIST STATEMENT

"Pulling Taffy" 2008 Series of 4

Pen and Ink/Color Pencil/Cut Paper/Mixed Media

I absolutely adore this series. I created these images back in 2008, using paper as my primary medium. There is something so wonderful about working on each of these ladies and then extracting them from the page, causing them to become so delicate in your hand. These ladies are dangling from their own little room, cocoon-like, graceful and yet deeply dark in context. You can find beauty in even the darkest of moods.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I remember as a child reading the German Fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and being engrossed in such beautifully dark imagery. The imagery may be dark in nature, but it invokes a subtle beauty by the delicacy of the extracted images and the great care in which they are strung together.

Each finished piece is considered a storybook. Each page, each image is scored carefully with an exacto knife and assembled layer upon layer to depict one singular candy coated image. In some cases other mediums are introduced, such as textile cuttings and tracing paper to add some color texture and depth. Each finished piece can have up to twenty different layers to create a more inviting scene.

I call this twisted beauty, surreal-like dark images, intertwined with childlike notions of paper dolls and fairy tales.......