Blackwork and ornamental. Founding resident, in the first chair since the room above the print shop in 2014.
I draw ornamental work the way a building gets drawn: to the shape that is already there. A sternum piece follows a sternum. A shoulder cap follows a shoulder. If a design would look the same on anybody, I have not finished it.
Most of what I do is large and takes more than one sitting. I would rather plan a whole panel with you across three sessions than fit something small into an afternoon.
Three things I take on most often, and the shape a booking usually has.
Sternum, spine, shoulder caps and anything that wants to follow the body’s own line. Planned as one drawing, tattooed across sessions.
Solid fill and hard contrast. Bold enough to still read from across a room in twenty years.
Covering older work with black. Honest assessment first: some pieces are better lasered a shade lighter before we start.
She talked me out of my first idea and drew something better. Two years on it still reads exactly the way it did the week it healed.
Noor planned my sternum piece around a scar I was self conscious about. It follows it now instead of hiding it.
Three sessions, all of them starting on time, all of them ending where she said they would.
Consults run forty minutes and cost nothing. Come with references, a rough placement, and a budget range. You leave with a date, an artist, and a price band.
