Guy Aitchison Journal

May 21, 2024

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April 8, 2016

New Ask Guy Column Addresses Issues of Design Strength

I've always enjoyed doing critiques of other artists' work, since critiquing is often one of the most direct ways to find the most obvious ways for an artist to improve. In my last critique column for...

December 4, 2015

New Ask Guy Critique Just Posted!

I'm always excited to do critiques of other artists' work, since I've personally gained so much from hearing feedback from other artists through the years. Every month, Tattoo Magazine has been giving...

May 11, 2015

The Much-Anticipated Force In The Flesh 2!

OK, so there are a lot of Star Wars nerds in the tattoo industry. Don't ask me how or why that happens to be the case, but I'm personally guilty of being one of them, having ridden my bike countless t...

February 13, 2015

Tattoo Prodigies 2!

Tattoo Prodigies 2 has been 2 years in the making, and it's finally here! This is a high quality, hardbound coffee table book that is 10 inches wide by 13 inches tall and about 2 inches thick. This bo...

February 10, 2015

New Ask Guy column on newsstands now!

In our last newsletter we talked about Michele Wortman's Bloom column in the Slinging Ink pages of the current issue of Tattoo Magazine , on newsstands now. What we didn't mention is that in the same ...

December 9, 2014

New Ask Guy Critique Column, Plus A Few Great last-Minute Gifts!

So another edition of my Ask Guy column has hit the newsstands, this time another one centered around a critique of another artist's work. Art critiques have been a standard part of artists' education...

December 8, 2014

Vibrant New Art Print From Guy, Plus Major Gallery Update!

When I completed my recent painting Radiant Flux , I had a lot of positive feedback, with a number of people asking me for prints. So it's finally been photographed properly and archival fine art canv...

November 9, 2014

New Skeletal Anthology Book, Plus Another Painting On eBay!

We've enjoyed all the great anthology books that have been released in the past few years by publishers such as Memento Publishing and Out Of Step Books, featuring work from diverse selections of arti...

October 20, 2014

Wacom now offering promotional discounts to the tattoo community!

In the days leading up to the big Guy Aitchison / Russ Abbott collaborative event, Evolution , we've established a partnership with the technology company Wacom . Many of us have long been using Wacom...

July 18, 2014

New Ask Guy Now in the Newstands... Plus Another Organica Painting Listed at eBay!

For my monthly Ask Guy column in Tattoo Magazine , I've gotten a great variety of questions ranging from artistic to professional to healing concerns, and I've been enjoying the diversity of conversat...

July 9, 2014

Guy Aitchison Now Listing Original Paintings on eBay!

Now that I've been getting back in front of the easel and am cranking out some new paintings , I thought it might be time to go through some of my favorite unsold pieces and list a few of them on eBay...

May 19, 2014

Latest Ask Guy Column Now On Newsstands, Plus Gallery Update!

It's been a while since I've had a chance to update my galleries of paintings and tattoos... so you'll be happy to know that we've just added a variety of new pieces to both the New Tattoos and New Pa...

April 19, 2014

Hot Off The Presses- Two New Guy Aitchison Prints

It's been a while since I've added new art prints to our catalog, so I'm excited to announce these two new medium-sized affordable giclee prints, based on two paintings that I completed for themed art...

April 17, 2014

Guy Aitchison's Technique DVD

For a decade and a half now I’ve been perfecting my Reinventing The Tattoo curriculum, which teaches some of the fundamentals of artistic design in a way that can be applied toward making your t...

April 2, 2014

What About My Sore, Tired Back?

Over the course of 25 years of tattooing I've encountered my physical limits a few times; I've had my back lock up on me, along with some pretty frightening hand and wrist issues that I could only res...

March 27, 2014

Two Upcoming Seminars, Now Available As One Great Ticket!

After the great successes of the seminars we produced from Jeff Gogue's Off The Map location in Oregon, I'm excited about the two upcoming classes I'll be offering in the beginning of April. These are...

March 3, 2014

How Do I Educate Myself As A Collector?

I've really been enjoying the broad variety of questions I've been getting from both clients and artists for my monthly Ask Guy column that I publish through Tattoo Magazine . This month's question wa...

March 1, 2014

How Do I Break Into The Tattoo Business?

The Ask Guy column that I write for Tattoo Magazine has given me a lot to think about- questions come from such a wide range of people and from so many different perspectives, it's really kept me gues...

February 3, 2014

New Tattoo Coloring Book In Stock Now!

One of the big surprise hit items that we've carried in the past few years was The Coloring Book Project by Memento Publishing, which features line drawings by a wide variety of artists touching on a ...

January 11, 2014

TattooTelevision upgrade, and Sunday night movie screening!

We've been working hard over the winter to complete a bunch of video projects, and thought that a great way to kick off the New Year would be to upgrade our YouTube channel, TattooTelevision , with so...

January 5, 2014

New Ask Guy column, plus improved Hypercast page with new episodes!

We hope you all had a great New Year celebration. We had a great time rounding off the year with Hypercast Episode 7: Tattooing Past, Present and Future where we interviewed Tattoo Archive historian C...

December 16, 2013

What causes bad healing?

Once again we are proud to present you with the latest installment of the Ask Guy column , where I'm taking questions from both artists and collectors on all kinds of topics related to tattooing, and ...

December 13, 2013

Great Gift Ideas from GuyAitchison.com!

With just 4 days left before the cutoff date for guaranteed Christmas shipping in the US, we wanted to show you a few items that are excellent holiday gifts for both artists and art fans. We have a fe...