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Tattooed Portraits Jan 20, 2009 at 02:35
What started out as an interest in the human figure and tattoo art became a portraiture series with a difference. Tattooed Portraits is a collection of works by San Francisco painter Shawn Barber featuring the inked up details of ome of the most well known tattoo artists and painters in the business. The series features the colourful flesh of the likes of Grime, Paul Booth, Marcus Pacheo, Mike Davis, Mike Giant, Kari Barba, Rick Walters, Mark Mahoney and other well known figures.

In 2006 Shawn his first book of work from this series entitled Tattooed Portraits: New Paintings by Shawn Barber followed by his second release early last year Forever and Ever: New works by Shawn Barber both published through 9mmbooks.

The attention to detail in both the figures, and multiple dimensions of their tattoo art is truly extraodinary. Check some samples from the series to the right of this post and for more informations on the artist and further works visit sdbarber.com


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False Respect
amazing work. love the idea shown best in image2 of showing more tattooed skin on the 1 person. p.s is that is reflection in the light?
True Advanced Member
I just had my hand tattooed...
True Senior Member
Baz
Jimbob - same here, with DES on one set of knuckles and TROY on the other...oh priceless.
False Respect
Get the fuck out! so did I! but i got RICK on one and SHAW on the other!
True Advanced Member
DES - Data Encryption Standard??? TROY - Toilet Recognition of the Year??? Hardcore...
True Member
where can i buy his work?? amazing.
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ryz
Bump! Check out his interview over at Fecal Face: http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1426&Itemid=92
False New Lounger
Shawn's work is amazing! I am the director of a publishing company that represents Shawn for his limited and open edition works. You can check some of the images out here: http://outlawsofart.com/artist_barber.html.

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