At the Nevada Johnny tattoo studio in Berlin we found the artist Jessica Mach, a new talent who has only been expressing her creativity through a tattoo machine for three years now.
Her work looks like a patchwork, cleverly combining differently sized subjects to obtain a harmonious, lively, colourful effect.
Jessica: «The most mentionable thing about my technique is the way I do the design. I use all the materials I find in my workroom; all kind of pencils, brushes, spray cans, paper clippings, my computer, my own photographs, even the rest of the coffee in my cup. The picture grows in the process, most of the time I don’t have a complete picture in my head beforehand. After this procedure I only “copy” myself by doing the design again on someone’s skin. I learned to draw in a tattoo-able way, so most of the time I think already how I will tattoo the piece when I do the flash.»

A self-taught tattoo artist, Jessica captures her passions in her work. Everything around her can become a source of inspiration. She loves nature and animals, she likes to observe and listen: «I want the customer to work his head a little bit for something that will always be a visual part of himself. So I try to figure out the character of the person, his feelings he wants to put in the tattoo.»

At the Nevada Johnny tattoo studio in Berlin we found the artist Jessica Mach, a new talent who has only been expressing her creativity through a tattoo machine for three years now. Her work looks like a patchwork, cleverly combining differently sized subjects to obtain a harmonious, lively, colourful effect.Jessica: «The most mentionable thing about my technique is the way I do the design. I use all the materials I find in my workroom; all kind of pencils, brushes, spray cans, paper clippings, my computer, my own photographs, even the rest of the coffee in my cup. The picture grows in the process, most of the time I don’t have a complete picture in my head beforehand. After this procedure I only “copy” myself by doing the design again on someone’s skin. I learned to draw in a tattoo-able way, so most of the time I think already how I will tattoo the piece when I do the flash.»

A self-taught tattoo artist, Jessica captures her passions in her work. Everything around her can become a source of inspiration. She loves nature and animals, she likes to observe and listen: «I want the customer to work his head a little bit for something that will always be a visual part of himself. So I try to figure out the character of the person, his feelings he wants to put in the tattoo.»

Read the whole interview with Jessica Mach

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How long have you been doing this work?
I started tattooing about three years ago.
I have my own shop in Berlin now, together with Peter Aurisch. The name of the shop is Nevada Johnny.

Who taught you?
I learned mostly by myself.

Are there any tattoo artists that you consider as your mentors or major influences?
There are a lot of great tattoo artists all over the world, but it’s important to create your own style and take ideas from everything around you instead of copying other colleagues.
You can learn a lot by watching other tattooists while they work – that improves your own technical skills. That’s why I had a great time working at AKA Berlin as a resident for two years.

I got to know a lot of individual tattoo artists from all over the world, everybody with his unique special style and way of tattooing. Having a big network in the world of skin art is the best way not to get stuck at just one level, it’s the best to reach a higher and higher level.
And also for getting invited to great tattoo shops in other countries, where you can tattoo very different customers too. By the way, customers can also teach you a lot

The most important thing is to keep alive some old and basic rules for creating works on skin, so they stay pretty for a long time. For example a good and balanced contrast with bright and dark colours or using a bold outline for the most important parts of the picture is what I find necessary.

What inspires your art?
There is at first my love for all that is given by mother nature, I mean all the animals on the planet with all the art in their ways of living. Everything that grows out of the ground, the weather… And another point is the way you look at things when you go out for a walk in the city where you live.
Living in Berlin is sometimes more than inspiring. All the interesting people, buildings, street art, the whole feeling makes my brain create ideas nearly by itself.

Can you briefly describe your technique?
The most mentionable thing about my technique is the way I do the design I think. It can arise in many different ways. I use all the materials I find in my workroom; all kind of pencils, brushes, spraycans, scraps of paper, my computer, my own photographs, even the rest of the coffee in my cup.
The picture grows in the process, most of the time I don’t have a complete picture in my head before. I always try not to stop myself by thinking too much about what I do, I do it intuitively. Like others maybe love to work with the science of machines, building them or using only special stuff, I have my passion totally in the creation process.

What relationship is there between your art of painting and tattooing?
After this procedure I only ‘copy’ myself by doing the design again on someone’s skin. I can totally concentrate on the handcraft of tattooing. I learned to draw in a tattooable way, so most of the time I think already how I will tattoo the piece when I do the flash. I can use the needle like a brush or a thin pen
I want parts of the tattoo to look like I worked directly on the skin without preparing anything.

How much does the person who asks for the tattoo influence your creation?
A lot, in most cases. I want the customer to work his head a little bit for something that will always be visual part of himself. So I try to figure out the character of the person, the feelings they want to put into the tattoo. One customer has a story to tell or a personal background, another one just wants to get a nice piece of art. I like both kinds of reason.

What was the first tattoo you created?
It was a panther’s head on my father’s upper arm.

And what was the first that you got on your own skin?
I was 14 years old and I got one of those ugly baby-devil-designs from the 80s

What are you working on now?
Currently I’ve started to cooperate with Peter Aurisch, we do designs together and tattoo them also together on the same customer. We had a lot of emails, where people wrote us that they would love to get a tattoo done created by both of us. We thought it was a good idea

What is your philosophy?
Not all the tattoos you get in your life will you love forever, as much as you did in the moment you got them done. But tattoos have a special talent; tattoos are like scars, they remind us, that the past was once reality

Jessica Mach – Nevada Johnny
Berlin (Germany)
www.machenschaften.com

4-5-6 may 2012

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1 How long have you been doing this work?
I’ve been doing this work for 18 years. I started at 17.

2 Who taught you?
Well, for one year I did all tattoos by myself manually (with needle and thread).  In 1995 I met Carlsten Kazim Salahor, who asked me if I would work in his tattoo studio. The studio was named “TattooJitsu”, which was among the very first tattoo studios in Turkey. Kazim introduced me to the tattoo machine and thus encouraged me to use it. I remember his words: “If you want to learn you should tattoo…”.

3 Are there tattoo artists that you consider your teachers or reference points?
Since tattooing wasn’t spread out in Turkey in those days at all, there weren’t any tattoo artists I could possibly consider as teachers or landmarks. But the immediate artists, who most encouraged and influenced me in my very early years were my parents.
My father is a painter Selim Cebeci and my mother Zerrin is an illustrator. Tubes of oil paints, turpentine smell, gouache paint, photography, art movies and music surrounded me since the very beginning of my existence. My parents were constantly producing art or and discussing art with friends at our home, which is today my studio.

4 What inspires your art?
I studied Illumination-Miniature and Calligraphy Design at the Mimar Sinan Art Institute in Istanbul. During my education I started to see many similarities between tattooing and traditional crafts, such as calligraphy and miniature (*). Both, calligraphy and miniature had grown my vision. The traditional arts discipline, the power of fiction, the craft aspect and the mythological and cultural mysterious side connected with tattooing and influenced my techniques in particular for lettering tattoo and painting.
[ * Ottoman art (or Turkish art) has a long tradition of illuminated miniature illustrations and calligraphy, fine arts which survived longer here than in Europe. The Ottoman artists wanted to hint at a transcendent reality with their paintings so they stylized and abstracted every subject they depicted – NdR.]

5 How much does the person who asks for the tattoo influence your creation?
We are speaking about every detail before we make any decision. When it comes to present the project, I can perfectly answer their expectation.

6 What was the first tattoo you created?
And what was the first that you got on your own skin?
I made a “yin yang” on my upper left arm, continued the very next day, with the word “dimensions” around it and the following day I circled all with flames and made it look like the sun. It was the logo of the very first rock band I was playing in.

7 What are you working on now?
During the time remaining from illustrative projects and my family I am mainly engaged in making music and keeping a healthy life.

8 What is your philosophy?
It isn’t important what you do, but how you do it.

Go to Emre Cebeci tattoo photo gallery

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Emre Cebeci – Cebecizade
Istanbul (Turkey)
www.cebecizade.com

Emre Cebeci is a young Turkish artist who uses every piece of his work to describe his passions, experiences and precision. His motto is: it isn’t important what you do but how you do it.
His father, Selim Cebeci, is a painter and his mother, Zerrin, an illustrator. Emre tells us: « Tubes of oil paints, turpentine smell, gouache paint, photography, art movies and music surrounded me since the very beginning of my existence.»
So he was born into art, and with a prodigious creative and visionary vein. You just have to look at his work to be captivated: the grace and harmony of the lines and his impressive lettering work, which goes beyond aesthetics and turns every script into a scene, a magical vision, a mandala.

Thanks to his passion for fine arts such as calligraphy and miniatures, which has a long history in Turkey, Emre has found his own path. « Both, calligraphy and miniature had grown my vision. The traditional arts discipline, the power of fiction, the craft aspect and the mythological and cultural mysterious side connected with tattooing and influenced my techniques in particular for lettering tattoo and painting.»
Take a close look at his work, nothing is left to chance!

Read the whole interview with Emre Cebeci

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On 4th, 5th and 6th November 2011 over 300 international tattoo artists, from all over the globe, work to create some incredible skin art at the fourth Florence Tattoo Convention, hosted again in the historical Fortezza Da Basso.
Fortezza da Basso is a massive palace built between 1534 and 1537, by order of the Medici family, within the fourteenth century walls of the city. In the past it was accommodation of troops and retreat for the rulers in the event of revolt.
Today, it is a fairground and centre for many national and international venues as the amazing Florence Tattoo Convention.

300 INTERNATIONAL TATTOO ARTISTS
Whether you’re a practitioner and tattoo professional, admirer, curious, looking for your first tattoo or heavily inked yourself, Florence Tattoo Convention 2011 brings you the best body artists from all around the world.

Over 300 international tattoo artists coming from Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Peru, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Taiwan, Venezuela, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland and many other countries.

SPECIAL GUESTS
• Lars Krutak, cultural anthropologist, photographer, and writer
• Elaine Davidson, the most pierced woman of the world (she now had 3,950 body piercing)
• The Masters of Tribals
- Colin Dale (Skin & Bone Tattoo, Copenhagen, Denmark), hand-poking and the ancient Inuit body art called skin-stitched tattooing
- Folk Space (Indonesia), tapping hand tattooing, a traditional tattoo technique which can be found in the Dayak (Borneo) and Mentawai (Sumatra) tribes
- the traditional tattoo masters Lard Yao, Jess Yen, Horidome and Arahi who is representing The Maori Tribes of New Zealand

OPENING
Friday, 4th November – from 3:00 PM to 03:00 AM
Saturday, 5th November – from 12:00 AM to 03:00 AM
Sunday, 6th November – from 12:00 AM to 01:00 AM

TICKETS
- One day 15 €
- Two days 25 €
- Three days 30 €
- Reduced 10 € (only Friday and Saturday after 9:00 PM)

Visit the official website www.florencetattooconvention.com for further information.

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After the great success of 2010, the Trieste Tattoo Expo will celebrate its fourth edition in November the 18th, 19th and 20th, in the fabulous location Salone degli Incanti (Ex Pescheria, Riva Nazario Sauro 1) overlooking the sea.

The recipe does not change: international guests, tattoo artists stall, exhibitors, refreshments, entertainment and the long awaited tattoo contest, everything accompanied on Virgin Radio Andrea Rock’s music setlist.
The Trieste Tattoo Expo is an event dedicated to professionals, enthusiasts of tattoos and, why not, simply bystanders who will have the possibility to appreciate not only works on skin by tattoo artists but also on toiles as there will be an art exhibition set up on the inside of the convention.

The evocative music of the Balkans and Eastern European countries will mingle with the sound of the tattoo machines on Saturday with Ricky Russo and DJ Stoner for a swinging cocktail!
There will be Pin-Up style shows with STAB clothing and conferences that want to bring attention to the new laws on tattooing.

OPENING
Friday 18th November: 2.00 PM – 11.00 PM
Saturday 19th November: 12.00 AM – 12.00 PM
Sunday 20th November: 12.00 AM – 12.00 PM

TICKETS
Day pass € 12,00
Weekend Pass (Fri – Sat – Sun) € 30,00

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