Classes, Workshops, Events, and Podcasts!

COURSES

FOUNDATIONS

Our foundations course uses drawing fundamentals with a tattooing approach to ensure that you achieve better results in your artwork.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

  • Master your understanding of shapes, value, edges, and color
  • Develop your ability to build a tattoo that looks amazing from every distance whether it's 6 inches, 6 ft, and 16 feet away. ​
  • Course completion comes allows access to Find Your Style Course and course discounts

FIND YOUR STYLE

FIND YOUR STYLE is our more personal course that we open twice a year to a limited number of artists. Included in this small group, in depth course are weekly critiques and one on one advice on your progress throughout from Jake and other invited artists.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

  • Small group , one on one instruction
  • Close observation and direct feedback about your work
  • Course open twice a year

WORKSHOPS

Dan Marshall - Plein Air Watercolor

A​ ​deliberate​ ​and​ ​repeatable​ ​process​ ​for​ ​creating​ ​realistic​ ​watercolor​ ​paintings

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

  • How​ ​to​ ​use​ ​different​ ​types​ ​of​ ​edges​ ​to​ ​create​ ​visual​ ​interest
  • How​ ​to​ ​edit​ ​what​ ​you​ ​see​ ​to​ ​create​ ​interesting​ ​paintings
  • How​ ​to​ ​use​ ​subtle​ ​shifts​ ​in​ ​value​ ​and​ ​temperature​ ​to​ ​create​ ​depth
  • What​ ​tools​ ​and​ ​materials​ ​are​ ​best​ ​suited​ ​for​ ​watercolor​ ​paintingList Item
  • How​ ​to​ ​use​ ​varying​ ​degrees​ ​of​ ​wetness​ ​in​ ​the​ ​paper​ ​to​ ​your​ ​advantage
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Nick Baxter - Focus Realism In Oil

Both formally schooled in oil painting at the college level and self-taught through years of honing his style in the tattoo industry, Nick brings these two worlds together into a simple formula in his specialty: Sharp-focus realism. Aimed specifically at helping tattoo artists who are seeking to expand their artistic practice into a second medium, this workshop makes many helpful comparisons between the tattoo and painting mediums; at the same time, it encompasses enough information to be of immense value to all aspiring realist oil painters, from beginner to intermediate level.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Where we'll be and when we will be there,.

Jan 10-14, 2019

Guru Tattoo Guest Spot
San Diego, CA

Feb 15-17, 2019

Space City Tattoo Expo
Huntsville, AL

March 15-17, 2019

Evergreen Tattoo Invitational
Eugene, OR

April 26-28 2019

Hell City Tattoo Fest
Columbus, OH

May 10-12, 2019

Tattoo The Lou
St. Louis, MO

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