PinPicks: Favourite Pins of The Week!

I browse Pinterest daily, whether its in between appointments at work or in the evenings before I go to bed. It seems to be very popular in the blogging community and is a great way to share your own interests to your readers! I figured I could post a few of mine every now and again, as my knitting progress is rather slow and so my posts have slowed somewhat!

I will be posting up pictures of a new project I've been working on tonight, Ive gotten everything ready to take pictures and realised my camera is out of battery!

Anyway, here are a few Pins that have caught my eye.

Chinese Waitress Cast On by Knit Freedom

Beautiful Lace heart tattoo by MikeyC

Birdy Floral backpiece

This makes me want to learn to crochet! Little camera bag

I love all things grumpy cat! I'd love to cross stitch this or make it into a sweater!

That's all for now :)

No knitting!

I feel pretty bad, I got so motivated with this blogging and once I'd started a project that overwhelmed me, I couldn't carry on with it! I'm very much a starter and not a finisher, although I was trying to change that.

Instead of waiting 6 months to finish this current project I've just started a new one, and hopefully the other will get done in time. So then I'll get to blog about my smaller projects.

As I've said on here before, I'm a tattoo artist, and I've got heaps of work to show those of you who are interested! (If tattoos aren't your thing then that's completely fine with me - feel free to skip the rest of this post!)

These are a selection over the past couple of months, I'm super proud of some of the work I've done. I've been concentrating on my artwork and not on my knitting, and I feel I should be able to balance both, so more work is needed!

I have a little lace scarf project on the go right now, so I'll post about it in a few days once I've got partway through it!

Thanks for reading!

Challenging myself, one tattoo at a time!

I often find with tattooing that ill end up doing the same style of tattoos over and over again, and ill feel like I'm stagnating. For example, these past couple of weeks I've been doing lots of floral tattoos, mainly roses. Now I love roses, they're one of my favourite subjects to tattoo, but I felt like I could do them with my eyes closed and upside down! So every so often, from an artistic perspective, it's good to drag yourself out of your comfort zone and try something new.

I got requested to do a realistic lions head, now considering I mainly do colour cartoony stuff, doing a black and grey lions head was a big big change. Especially with realism/portraiture, your at a massive risk of shading too much or too lightly and making them look like they've ran into a fridge! Although I let him know this, he said he didn't mind and that he'd like me to do it.

So it took 3 hours in, lots of my concentration and equipment, and I have to say it turned out better than I ever thought! So I had a nice confidence boost, and it's getting a lot of good attention via Facebook! Let me know what you all think!

I understand that tattooing still has a lot of stigma, I hope to bring to the knitting community that tattoos is just another art form and creative outlet, and can be appreciated as such, despite perhaps not wanting one themselves!

Til next time - Jess x