Mythology Tattoo Artist
Mythology in Tattoos is a style that has been speaking to me lately. I must admit I do have a little battle inside of me, about what type of style to stick with, as I do like and enjoy doing different styles of drawing and tattooing, lately Mythology have been speaking to me in other ways rather than tattooing, so in this blog I would like to go deep into my journey with mythology, and why I feel like that’s the style I’m going to specialise at.
With the advance of tattooing needles, artist can now put on skin a collection of traditional stories, myths, behind mythology images, there’s cultural beliefs featuring gods and goddesses philosophy.
I love to add my own input or twist when approaching a Mythology drawing, I enjoy drawing mythology images, however, the part where I most have fun is when I allow myself to be creative with the textures.
Adding texture to mythology images and feeling free to see where it develops, it feels adventurous. I’m not shy to admit that I’m a fan of Victor Portugal’s work, and I do study his work, and bring those studies to my Mythology drawings. In 2019, one of my dreams came true, which it was getting tattooed by Victor Portugal. I travelled to Poland where his studio is, it was an amazing experience getting tattooed by my favourite Tattoo Artist, and I will be coming back for more in the near future.
Another way that mythology has been speaking to me, and making me assertive of that’s the style I should focus on, was by the writer and intellectual teacher Joseph Campbell.
I was aware of Joseph Campbell in the past, and the reason why was because I saw one of his videos speaking about Eternity. If you go online and search “Joseph Campbell about eternity” you will find a video of him explaining that we are living eternity right now, and the only reason why we don’t feel it or are aware of it, is because we think and we are living with the concept of time.
Joseph Campbell has published many books about Mythology. I have one which I will share the image with you guys in this blog. Joseph Campbell has passed away in the early 80’s but his legacy lives on, he dedicated his whole life to studying Mythology from cultures around the world. What I have gathered so far about my personal journey with Joseph Campbell, is that mythology is more than just a myth, it speaks to us a humans, and it represents our own inner belief system of who we think we are. We are living our own myth day by day of who we think or believe we are.
Joseph Campbell was also very spiritual, and a fan of percussion. There’s a video of him on YouTube where he speaks about eternity. I can really resonate with that video, I will try to post this video on this blog, or if you want to check it out, you can search “Joseph Campbell about Eternity” he explain that we are living eternity right here and now, our thinking and our time, is what cuts out our experience of eternity.
In our life journey, sometimes the universe takes us to the path we are meant to experience, is just calm down and pay attention to what’s presented to you, everything starts to make sense of the direction you should be taking.
Thank you