Timetable

Timetable for following weeks

Week 24
- Take photos of designs on body
- Edit photos if needed
- Print photos and frame them for display

Week 25
-Apply tattoo to models ready for display
-Make any adjustment if need to
- Ensure I have all materials for display
                       - Photos
                       - Models
                       -Tables
                       -Light?
                       -White sheets

Week 26
-Ensure display space is ready
-Ensure models are to the highest standard possible
-Ensure any information signs are ready

Display

For my display at the museum I was to use either mannequin heads and arms or something similar then apply my designs to these. If this is not possible use live models. I want the rest of the room to be completely white, however there will be pictures of the sect members with the tattoos on them around the room and a simple information sheet explaining the tattoo's, maybe have a voice over explaining them.

Arm

For the arms I decided to draw them free handed, I also used both pen and eyeliner.

I actually prefer the pen as it has a more neater look but also comes off as easily as eyeliner, I also prefer the colour of the pen to the eyeliner however i'm going to look at some different coloured pens as well. With the design I think I need to use smaller spiders and more of them. Overall, I think I am going to go in the direction of using pens for my tattoo's.

Eyeliner Attempts

Attempt 1 - I went over most of the lines that I could see but my hand was a bit wobbly so the lines weren't very straight.

Attempt 2 - Again the lines were still not straight.

Attempt 3 - I managed to make the lines straighter but sometimes the eyeline would make the lines thicker in parts

Overall :- I'm unsure about the eyeliner. The method of transfer seemed to work after a few attempts but I think the eyeliner looks too messy and I want the tattoo to look pristine.

Stencil Attempts

(Camera did not pick up lines very well)

Attempt 1 - Although it is hard to see in picture some of the lines did show but they were very faint. 

Attempt 2 - Some of the lines are more visible but again very light.

 Attempt 3 - Here a lot more of the lines were visible and were more darker than the previous attempts.

Overall, I am pleased with the transfer and think this will work well with the photoshoot.

(Note - Transfer did not work at photoshoot, this may be due to products used on the face so the transfer didn't stick or maybe there was not enough ink on transfer. Consider using carbon paper or something similar)

Stencil

Step One - Draw design onto tracing paper and cut out.

Step two - Wet face and apply tracing paper with design onto face.

Step three - Apply a wet cloth onto tracing paper

Step four - Peel tracing paper off and see if design has transferred 

Step five - Go over design with eyeliner

Contemporary and Historial Contextual Project

The artists that has inspired me most over the years is Gerhard Richter, I have always found his work interesting and it has always been something I find intriguing.

Gerhard Richter is mainly known as a painter, although he has also worked with collage and photographs. It will be his paintings that I will be mainly talking about especially his oil paints work. I will also be talking about what drew me to his work, in particular I always thought his work looked like a forgotten memory which has always intrigued me as I find trying to piece together the past fascinating and I love the way Richter seems to express this in his work.

A rough outline for presentation

- Introduce Gerhard Richter (background)
- What Inspired him/how his work developed
- How his work has influenced my own work

I knew straight away that I wanted to use Richter as my artist however I was having a hard time incorporating him into my recent work. However, I soon realised that he fit perfectly with it, my recent project is about creating a museum to re-live the past although we do not know all the facts about what actually happened in the past. This relates exactly to Richter as this seems to me what his work is all about. I can use Richter's work to influence my own by looking at how expresses forgotten memories through his work.

• Gegenüberstellung 2
  Confrontation 2
• 1988
• 112 cm x 102 cm
• Oil on canvas
• Catalogue Raisonné: 671-2

• Mädchen mit Sonnenbrille
  Girl with Sunglasses
• 1966
• 90 cm x 70 cm
• Oil on canvas
• Catalogue Raisonné: 106

• Familie Hötzel
  The Hötzel Family
• 1966
• 76 cm x 50 cm
• Oil on canvas
• Catalogue Raisonné: 105

The work I am going to talk about it 'Family Hotzel' it is a 76cm x 50cm black and white oil painting on canvas. In the middle of the painting is a man and woman standing next to each other with a little boy between them, they are obviously a family. The boy is holding a long object that can't really be distinguished. The family are standing in front of some bare trees that suggest it is Autumn or Winter. The most interesting this about this painting is that it looks like the edges of everything has been blurred so that it seems to resemble a worn out photograph. 

Bibliography 

http://www.gerhard-richter.com/

Tattoo Method

Hand/Arm

Spider

Gang meaning - Person is a thief/facing upward they are an active criminal/facing downwards they are leaving the life of crime

Niksurites meaning - Creativity/Crime/They are active

Final Choice

Face

Stars

Gang Meaning - Will not kneel before authorities/points represent years served/spirit/inspiration

Niksurties meaning - Number of stars represent years served/inspiration

Final Choice

So far undecided about having the stars in UV

Neck

Dagger On the Neck 

Gang meaning - Person is available for hire to kill
Niksurites meaning - We sacrifice people

Final Choice

Sketchbook

Sources

http://lostinasupermarket.com/2010/02/russian-prison-tattoos/

http://www.phaseloop.com/foreignprisoners/exp-russian_tats.html

http://info.publicintelligence.net/CBSA-TattooHandbook.pdf

http://gangtattoos.blogspot.co.uk/p/russian-mafia.html

http://gangtattoos.blogspot.co.uk/p/mexican-mafia.html

http://publicintelligence.net/ules-mexican-gang-tattoos-identification-guide/

http://mafialifeblog.com/gang-tattoos-their-meaning-and-the-gangs-who-represent-them/

The Russian Mafia

In 1994 Mikhail Yegoro, estimated that the number of organized crime groups had grown from 785 to over 5,000, by 1996 it was over 8,000, today it is unknown. Tattoo's usually done in prison are done with homemade tools. They are done in the rite of passage  often tattooed before they are sentenced prison. The tattoo's have multiple meanings so people not involved would not know what they are.

A popular tattoo is the Madonna and Child, thought to ward of evil in reality it symbolizes that the person has been a criminal from a young age.

Some tattoo's are given by force, usually on the face. Criminal owning of some people. Humiliating tattoo's are often forcibly given to outcasts eg - child rapists, a pair of eyes on the lower stomach are usually for homosexual men.

Prison Tattoo's