Nordic piece for Carlos

Hello everyone,

It’s been long since my last post, but well, here you have me again. Life lately has been about only working as much as I can, and trying to figure it out how to present my work on social media. Finally I got a camera! (which I am still fightning with, trying to  understand how to use it properly) and I also got some little time to type on this website and speak about my last piece with you.

This time I am going to show you this tattoo that was done on Carlos, who came all the way from London, desperately wanting to get this piece with me. I know, it’s weird, right? Like, who the hell travels that long to spend so much time with a weirdo like me. When he arrived to the shop -he looked like he just came from hell. It seems like he didn’t had any money for the plane ticket because he was spending it already on the tattoo, and decided to swim the atlantic ocean and then get to Barcelona with auto-stop. I’ve never met a customer that is that mad before (and also a bit creepy) Anyway, here is the result:

This piece was highly inspired on a leg I did some time ago with my boss (Peter Madsen)  and it took us two full day sessions. I was pretty surprise that Carlos sat throught those two days properly, considerating the state that he came with to the shop. It ended up being a very good man. The only time he spoke with me was when we were finishing the second day -thank you Carlos for being so scary to work with.

Here you can check a little video of the piece too.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/287429213

Until next time, strangers!

Cat

Moth from my flash

Hello everyone,

I am more than happy to be writing this right now -things in my life had been quite busy lately, so being able to just sit and start typing it’s getting quite relaxing… and I am excited too for showing you all the details of the last illustration I’ve been working on this week.

We had a flash event many moons ago where we celebrated spring and we all got inspired by our newest resident artist at the shop: Subliquida (Andrea Baiardo) He is an eccentric (but lovely) man who is obssesed with nature. I’ve never met before someone with such a passion for insects and botanical, and i’ts something that one can clearly appreciate in his own artwork. The event we had was an inauguration of his exposition at Meatshop, so we worked on some flash based on that theme. Unfortunately, I didn’t had enough time or inspiration to came with a bunch of flash as I usually do when we have flash events -but I made some of them which I ended up pretty happy with.

Still, I haven’t got to tattoo them! So that’s why I though about making a proper illustration of this designs -I wish that if you are closer to what my vision for the tattoo is, you will be as excited as me as seeing them on some skin.

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I worked on this illustration in a way I haven’t worked in such a long time! Color pencils where my option for this little project, as I was at the shop and forgot about my watercolors at my place (duh) I am quite happy with the result. For sure I will use more color pencils in a future. Here you can see some other shots from the piece, details and a little bit of the process with the dotting.

And that’s it. Remember that this design is made for be a tattoo!! Don’t doubt in writing me, I do think it deserves a nice portion of skin to show off to the world.

Cat

Candle from my flash

Hello my dearests strangers,

I am so excited I am writing this today! I had a blog in the past -but it was a very boring and impersonal one. That’s why I am shaking while typing this right now… so, excuse me, please, if I have some bad ortography. My english is still something I don’t feel too confident with.

But anyway -I can at least tell you that I feel quite secure about this tattoo I am going to show you people! It was made on the fantastic Grace. She came to Meatshop pretty much open into looking to our available flash. She then decided to go for this candle that was still up for grabs from a Halloween sheet I did some time ago -thank you Grace, again, for allowing me to make the piece with artistic freedom while being such a trooper on taking it. This tattoo was done in a total of three hours.

 

Hope you enjoy this little piece, and remember that I am taking appointments for the rest of this month and august at Meatshop Tattoo. You can write me to bookingwithcat@gmail.com ❤

May the power of black metal be with you, my lovely strangers,

Cat.

Greetings from somewhere on Spain

First posts are always a little bit annoying to deal with… I think that is because one don’t really know what to write in this huge blank space first, where to start, what to say, how you picture yourself to the vast ocean of the internet where lots of random people can get into whatever you feel like showing, know a little bit more about you. Anyway, I do think I can just say what everyone else says in this situations – Hello! I am Cat. And I make art. I do hope you find interesting what comes from my mind and my hands. If not, well, I can’t please everybody… but at least I’ve tried!