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About Me Member Deviant of Many Talents William Axsom37/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 1 Year
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Starving Artists...

Fri Sep 4, 2009, 6:40 AM
  • Mood: Dead
  • Listening to: the noises & voices in my head
  • Reading: nothing @ the moment
  • Watching: History Channel
  • Playing: nothing
  • Eating: 1 meal a day
  • Drinking: coffee
...Do what we have to do to keep on keeping on. I'm not the most regular keeper of a journal, here or any of the other places I make efforts to keep track of my life. Nor am I the busiest of Artists(in tattooing or any other medium) simply because I have to work at doing other things to support my existence. As a tradesman I am a carpenter/woodsmith, etc, or have been most of my adult life. This is a pretty useful skill set but far from gratifying. It is very strenuous and often very dangerous. For the last few years I've been making great efforts to get away from this; mostly because I've decided that enough is enough with all the damage to my body it brings. But alas, it never lasts long enough and now, as of the last 3 weeks, a buddy and I have been working on a rather large project in this field. This time however I'm not constructing anything but DE-constructing. We have taken on the removal of an old (built 1922), very large (40x60) dairy barn. There is quite a bit of valuable lumber and timber in it so we may actually be able to make enough to cover our time in taking the old place down. This project, and others like it, are often the reason I find myself away from the computer, the easel, and the tattoo machines for long periods of time. I am also constantly worrying over the next injury that is waiting around the corner to put me down, lay me up, for long periods of time; again. The other day we were lifting down a rather large and heavy 6"x8"x12' beam, each of us on an end. Just as we had it directly above our heads Mark lost control of his end and I got the brunt of it. Fortunately it wasn't very serious, but oh so damn painful. The end of the beam caught me on the inside of the left forearm with enough force to stretch and literally TEAR the skin like paper, and bruise me to the bone. As I'm a lefty and quite partial to my arm and hand I was damn near in a panic for a few seconds. The wound is only a couple inches long and getting close to healed now but it was another reminder. A reminder to get this kind of shit done in my life, so I can afford my studio rent for a few months, and get back to doing what I do best; creating Art and slinging ink. My time in the construction field has been full of many good times, great friends, and fond memories, but the scars, broken bones, and never healing injuries now out-weigh any of the other stuff to the point that I really hope taking DOWN a couple structures to sell off the antique timber and lumber will be my last great hoo-rah in the industry. All I really want to do is paint, draw, and sling some ink every so often. I don't think I am asking for too much.

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  • Current Residence: Nashville, Indiana
  • Interests: Art & tattoos; liturature, history, science
  • Favourite movie: more into documentaries than movies
  • Favourite genre of music: most everything EXCEPT pop/rap
  • Favourite artist: too many to list
  • Favourite poet or writer: too many to list
  • Favourite style of art: contemporary ideas in traditional mediums
  • Operating System: windows XP
  • Skin of choice: my woman's!!
  • Favourite game: chess
  • Favourite gaming platform: Wii
  • Favourite cartoon character: either Droopy (the dog) or Woody Woodpecker
  • Personal Quote: Straight up, Heads up, No Bullshit About It!!
  • Tools of the Trade: tattoo machine, pens, pencils, & paintbrushes

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:iconvillia23:
Thank's for "favourites :*
:iconeye4art:
Thanks for the fav. bro.

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:iconlsyfinlay:
Thanks for adding me to your favorites! Truly appreciated :)
:iconemilyaholic:
thanks for the favourite.
it's ink applied with bamboo sticks, with some watered down ink in some places :) x

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:iconmaria-eguiarte:
hey thanks for seeing wat i do

i am very thankful and flater
:iconbluowle:
When I 1st drew the picture I call 'My Demon' it was not envisioned as a tattoo or anything else but something to learn some CGI stuff with. I scanned it into the computer & began playing with it. The image I created was pretty cool, sadly it is lost due to technical problems. It was only a couple years later at a weekend long tattoo party my sister & her husband were throwing that the idea came about. The tattoo artist was feeling pretty ballsy I guess, he put out a dare. He said he would do any armpit tattoo for free because he liked to (in part) inflict pain & also bare witness to others enduring pain. So some of the crowd went and rounded up one of the local town drunks who got juiced up on techilla & whatever else could be found until he was beyond pain sensation. To me this seemed like a cheap way out of & around the whole point of Jim doing it for free. Most everyone was (for a while at least) pouring over all the flash looking for tats that were condusive to armpit placement. I had my work out too for people to choose from if they wished. It was agreed that the demon (then refered to by me as my 'meth monster' I have battled with for so many years) was a very likely image for an armpit tattoo. So the last morning of the party I got it done. I was very disapointed after the fact, for one, it did not hurt as much as I had hoped it would, and two, he did a pretty poor job with it overall. It took another session with another artist to get a look that was acceptable to me, & another 2 sessions to get the rest of the blackwork done down the ribs (which DID hurt the way I had hoped!!) We have 3 -4 more sessions to colorize it, when I can come up with the money. But none of this is really to the point I am trying to make. While editing some of my photos I came across by accident some pretty cool effects & I began experimenting. From a pen & ink drawing, to an well inked tattoo, to (what I think are) some pretty cool images, this was the first time that I have taken a piece and proliferated it into so many different things. I put it all together in one file folder titled "A Demonic Progression." If I can somehow get it scraped out of my woman's desktop, I will also add to the file the original CGI that I had worked up 4 -5 yrs ago. It is doubtful I can recover the image since the last crash & recovery to her system but we'll look for it. I thought it a fairly decent idea to compose the file & record the image's progression. I have enjoyed it, even if others find it warped, gross, sickening, etc. I hope at least a few others might "get it" also. Unless one is also a sado-massacist (sp?) I don't think they will. Most people are very pain adverse, I am not. As to the 'meth monster', I have now almost 3 years clean of him so it was in part a victory thing when I had the image inked. And, in case anyone cares I went through all 4 sessions so far without even so much as a good canibus high. It doesn't matter much what one may be on, when the drilling starts it all about the adrenaline & the endophines. For me there is no other high that can match up.

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