Learning how to be a tattoo artist can be a great career or trade to learn. Tattoos have been around forever, and they definitely have stood the test of time. Especially now days tattoo’s are being worn by practically everyone it seems, and are increasing in popularity even more. So how can you learn how to be a tattoo artist?
The first thing to do is to begin to practice on your own. See if you have the skill and patience to create good looking tattoo designs.
There are various ways you can learn how to be a tattoo artist on your own:
1. Get a tattoo kit.
A tattoo kit will have the proper tools necessary for beginners to practice with and get a feel for what tattooing entails. Most will include designs you can practice with, but you will want to see number 3 for better, higher quality designs found right online that you can use to practice with immediately.
2. Practice on fruit.
Many tattoo artists got started by actually practicing tattooing simple designs on fruit. It’s a good way to get familiar with the equipment and see if it’s something you can pick up and feel comfortable with. Once you get better and more comfortable, and most importantly, confident that you can tattoo, then you can move on to giving your friends free tattoos for further practice!
3. Join a Tattoo Gallery Site.
A great way to learn how to be a tattoo artist is by practicing designs from a good tattoo gallery site. You can print these designs out and practice with them over and over. This will provide you with great skills as you will be working with actual tattoo designs which are the exact high quality work you will be tattooing. By practicing and studying really great designs from a gallery, you will get better at tattoo sketching and will be able to come up with your own original designs.
Bob Ross was a versatile painter and television anchor from America who was born in the year of 1942 on 29th October. Bob’s place of birth was Daytona Beach in Florida. Before he became famous as a painter, he had a long career in American air force for about 20 years.
His posting was mostly in Alaska and he used to take care of the medical services there. After retiring from the air force services he earned huge fame in all over the world for his paintings and television shows.
Bob Ross had an impressive look, which like his paintings appealed a lot to the audience of television. With his afro hairstyle and his composed, gentle voice added up to his worldwide popularity.
He used to host a television show related to art and the name of the show was The Joy of Painting and it is often considered to be the most popular one among the Americans.
In this show he used to teach the viewers how to paint and the techniques and presentation was impressive enough to make the audience stick to the television screen. There were quite a number of kids who used to take their art lesion from Bob Ross through this particular television show.
Some of the paintings that gained huge fame and still remembered by the audience are “pretty little mountains”, “happy little trees” and “happy little clouds”.
He was a strong believer of the fact that each and every person has an artist hidden inside him who can come out if the person is inspired and taught in a correct way. His shows were dubbed in German and they were broadcasted for the popularity among the audience.
He was quite successful as a painter. In fact he started painting when he was posted in Alaska. He discovered a unique technique of painting, which was acclaimed by the art critics of the United States.
This technique is known as the wet-on-wet technique and it involved special method of applying the wet paint on an existing layer of paint that is absolutely different from the conventional methods. He used to paint the darkest clouds and liveliest trees on paper using the simple 1or 2-inch brushes.
But the most interesting fact about bob Ross is that he never received a professional training of making paintings.
At the same time Bob Ross has got some critical comments from the art critics as well as fellow artists. According to them his paintings run short of detailing which is an indispensable part of a good painting. They also say that the paintings of Bob Ross contained a style, which seems artificial.
In fact he also faced embarrassing situations created by the traditional artists who protested against his modern technique of painting. This great persona passed away in the year of 1995 suffering from lymphoma.
This article is the 5th in this series of articles on the Enneagram.
Triad: Type 4 is a variant of the core type of the Heart Triad, with Type 3 being the core type.
Core Belief: Others in the world have something that I do not. What is wrong with me?
With this core belief, the Four’s focus of attention is on whether they are accepted or rejected. This operates below the level of conscious awareness and underlies everything that they do.
Whilst Twos learned to get love by giving and Threes learned to earn respect by their achievements, Fours learned to feel accepted by being unique and authentic. With this focus, Fours become creative people who need to express their uniqueness. They are drawn to the arts, drama and other forms of self expression. You can also find them in jobs which require new or unique solutions.
Fours are warm and compassionate people, very in touch with their own feelings and able to feel what others are feeling too. Fours are refined people with an interest in aesthetics and quality.
Threes will seek to fit into a crowd and will dress accordingly. Fours will do anything to stand out from the crowd and will dress to do this. You can often spot a Four in a crowd by their unique dress sense.
This drive to be unique can become the Fours blind spot in that they develop a great fear of being ordinary. Fours can become depressed, self conscious and withdrawn from the world as they feel the pain of being ordinary. The drive for uniqueness can be exhausting, and however much they succeed, Fours can still feel there is something still wrong with them. This self absorption can make them stubborn and moody, where their concerns are over dramatised and they can attain a reputation of being a ‘drama queen’. Fours feel everything very deeply and are often saddened by life.
Fours, in their search for the meaning of life, to understand their feelings and to be understood, have been inspired to create some of the greatest works of art, music, poetry and literature. They have poured their hearts into the creation of these unique masterpieces, sometimes to the extent that there was nothing left for them at the end, having expended all their deepest feelings in the act of creation.
Examples of Fours (real and/or fictional)
Singers Elton John and Kate Bush
Salvador Dali
Meryl Streep in the film The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Please remember this is a general introduction to the Personality Types and is help you get a basic level understanding of the Enneagram. For a fuller understanding, I recommend further reading, and ideally an experience of an Enneagram course.