Here is the banner I will be using at the convention in Vegas this upcoming weekend!

I’ll be teaching my Painting tattoo flash using watercolor seminar as well as being available for 1-on-1 seminars! If you can make it come by and say hello!

– Posted from my iPhone

So I just picked up my convention banner for Mario Barth’s Biggest Tattoo Show On Earth!

I will up date with a pic as soon as I get home and can take it out of the packaging

Stay Humble,
Joe Swanson
Tattooer, Painter, Teacher

– Posted from my iPhone

Hey everyone I just got the new iPhone 3Gs and am pretty stoked to say the least! With it I will be able to updat the blog in realtime!

This should be fun as I am heading to Vegas next weekend for the biggest tattoo show on earth! Anyway, thanks for stopping by and check back for more real soon!

Stay Humble,
Joe Swanson
Tattooer, Painter, Teacher

– Posted from my iPhone

So I have been expanding my product line and will soon be releasing a couple more products to help out aspiring artists.

One of those products is a Drawing Tattoo Style Roses instructional course.  This course will take you step by step thru the process of drawing the perfect tattoo style roses.

For checking out this course I am also going to be giving away a print of my most recent painting.  The painting is entitled, ‘Glory Days’ and was drawn using the same techniques I show in this course.

Here is a shot of the print I will be giving away.

So I am hoping to get this all released prior to my convention in vegas coming up.  You can check that out right HERE!

Stay Tuned!

Here are a couple of recent tattoos I did at the shop in San Francisco.

I hope you enjoy checking them out.

Rose

Flip/Flop skull girl

Thanks for looking!  You can follow me on twitter at www.twitter.com/joeswansontat2

Screen shot from the course. Picture-in-Picture instruction.

Learn everything you need to start painting tattoo flash
and fine art pieces you can sell or display. The best
tattoo artists are selling and producing tattoo flash,
and routinely putting art pieces in art shows around the
world.

This course will take you step-by-step through the
entire painting process. Learn what materials to use, how-
to tint your paper to give it a vintage look, how to use an
age old technique called ‘spit-shading’ to give your flash
that unique tattoo look, plus tons of other useful
techniques. The entire course is comprised of 8 sessions:

Video #1: Materials
Video #2: Transferring the design
Video #3: Inking the design
Video #4: Practice Techniques
Video #5: Black Shading, ’spit shading’
Video #6: Adding the Base color
Video #7: Adding the Watercolor
Video #8: Finishing Touches

High Quality picture-in-picture feature in videos 4, 5, 6, and 7 so you can easily see all the detailed shading technique instruction from different angles. This feature makes it so you don’t miss a thing.

If you are a beginning artist looking to start painting or you are already and established artist looking to take your game to the next level, then this course is or dvd is for you.

To purchase the course go to www.PaintTattooFlash.com

The course is being offered at only $97!

Wow!  It has been awhile since I have last posted.  Sorry for no recent updates.  If you want you can keep track of me and my painting course on twitter.  Follow me here:

www.twitter.com/joeswansontat2

Follow my painting course here:

www.twitter.com/paintflash

Following my twitter you will get tweets in your feed about me, my travels, the tattoo shop, tattoos im doing, and daily stuff going on with me.  Whereas the paintflash tweets will be more about the course I teach.  I will tweet about any specials, giveaways, new products, etc.  Also I will be throwing in stuff from any conventions I go to and teach my seminar.  http://bit.ly/1VLHaa

I have been very busy working on a new look for the site and some new painting/drawing tutorials.  STAY TUNED for all of this.  I hope to have everything ready to launch by October for the convention http://bit.ly/1VLHaa.

Also, a lot of my time has been being taken up with painting daily paintings for the retrieval project.  This has been going really good.  You can check out all the paintings and read the story behind this project by clicking on the link to the right.

I have really opened up and gotten loose with some paintings.  I was turned on to an old painter whos stuff I really like.  His name is Howard Finster – Man of Vision.  He has a crazy story and his art is amazing!  Definitely worth a google search on him!

Well I will let you know what is going on with me by posting more often and also please follow me on twitter for daily updates.

Thanks,

Joe