I am super excited and honored to have been asked to take part in this EVENT for SKULL A DAY! Come see my skull creation and celebrate SKULL A DAY's 1st international Skull Appreciation Day!:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101154713309242

Style Weekly Coverage: Advice on Getting a Tattoo You Won’t Regret

Special thanks to the folks at Style Weekly for the great coverage, especially Melissa Barber for the excellent write-up on Advice on Getting a Tattoo You Won't Regret. Check it out if you get a chance.

Thank You to my friend and client Chris Adler for a super nice interview he did recently on www.gunshyassassin.com! I'm excited to post in progress photos of his piece we started a few weeks ago.

read interview here

Best of Style Weekly's 2011 :-)

THANK YOU RICHMOND for voting me Richmond's Best Tattoo Artist, and TRADEMARK TATTOO as one of Richmond's Best Tattoo Parlor for Style Weekly's Best of 2011! I am thrilled and honored and still soaking it all in! I made shirts to celebrate AND now have a fresh new facebook page for Amy Black Tattoos where I'll be posting new work, updates and my newly started art projects (shirts and more!)

fresh photos for the blog on the way also!

My World Tattoo

While sitting in the Pirate Bar in Utila Honduras waiting for the World Cup to begin, I quickly noticed a girl, Jules, who I had met earlier in Antigua. After speaking for a moment she quickly turned around to speak to someone else and that is when I noticed it, a tattoo outline of the world. I, along with many other backpackers, quickly told her how awesome it looked. She also said that she planned putting a red dot on all the places she has traveled. While sitting at the table looking almost hypnotically looking at her tattoo every time her back was facing me, I realized that I had finally gotten the inspiration for the "travel" tattoo that I had been thinking about since my trip to Thailand. She told me that she had gotten the tattoo from Mike at Tattoo Antigua in Antigua, Guatemala. I realized that if I was going to do that it would have to be a tattoo of the entire World including the specific countries. I also knew that I would like to color in each of the countries that I had traveled to. I went back to Antigua and got the outline of the world done by Mike and then got the countries colored in by Jake of Natural Mystic Tattoo in Pineville, Louisiana. The following pictures are of my initial tattoo and the progression of coloring in the countries. 40 counties so far with hopefully many more to follow.

new work: please do not copy :-)