MysticFaeFantasyArt

SO...if you read my last journal post all the way thru, you'll have read that I'm a tattoo artist now. Pursuing a career as a tattoo artist has been something I've wanted to do since I was a teenager. I almost had an apprenticeship when I was 19 actually but that fell thru when I decided to pursue a professional career as a traditional artist, which is what I did for the past, almost, 10yrs. I'm glad I did that though cause I was able to develop my artwork and style into what it's become today and I am a much better artist now. Anyway at 28yrs old now, I decided it was time to pursue my other dream. With the push and support of my dear friend, Alex Polinsky, who all but kicked my ass out of the door (believe me, if we were in the same state he probably would have done just that) I went and pursued an apprenticeship...and got one. Illest Ink in Pawtucket, RI...Tim, saw my portfolio and immediately took me in. There In early November 2017 I started working and learning and the quick learner I am, I was licensed by February 2018. Almost a year later, I'm in a new shop now called Ink Therapy, my boss is still Tim though haha

While it is bittersweet to have left my first shop, I am however, still with most of my Illest Ink crew here at Ink Therapy...Tim, Chris and Kenny. We are a team after all and teams stick together. So, it's not that much of a change. I'll always appreciate the first shop, for being my first shop, starting my career there, the people I've met. But it was time to close that chapter and start a new one with some pretty awesome people and I look forward to my future with Ink Therapy.

I fully enjoy tattooing and I can't believe I didn't pursue this sooner...!!!

*****I would post some photos of my tattoo work but I don't think you can in journal entries? and if you can? Well then I don't know how haha so you'll have to follow me on instagram at mystickristin_tattoos

Now don't worry, I am still painting and creating my own personal artwork, nothing and no one could ever stop me from doing that. As a full time tattoo artist it will be that my painting is slower than it was in the past. On average I was painting 2 artworks a month or so...now it will be more like one painting a month....BUT I'm still painting, still selling my originals, still selling prints. I'm just producing artwork slower than before.

SO yeah...I'm a tattoo artist

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Hello Deviantart fam...SO, I'm almost never on here lately unless it's to post artwork and I've been not only slacking with posting new art here but also art has been pretty slow for me in the past year and a half or so...and here is why.

In late 2016 I met actor, Alexander Polinsky on twitter. He fell in love with my artwork and asked me to work on a project with him, creating Control Freak artwork. Control Freak is the character he voice acts for in Teen Titans. Alex voices a whole host of other amazing characters in all sorts of different shows, he was also Adam Powell in the 80s sitcom "Charles in Charge"....anyway while we were working on Control Freak artwork together we became very good friends and Alex asked me to work on another very awesome project with him. That project is called Avatarism!!! Avatarism is about creating yourself into your superhero persona. It's about being the person on the outside that you are on in the inside. We spent pretty much almost all of 2017 working on artwork for avatarism. I was illustrating an interactive artbook for the movement, I'm not gonna get much into it as I really don't know how much I'm allowed to say haha....

Not only that but when I finished the art for the avatarism book near the end of 2017 I threw myself into my own little personal venture...becoming a tattoo artist. I'll talk more about that in my next journal post.

SO In 2017 I was doing that and working on some commission artwork and that is why I seemed to be on a bit of hiatus.....But I'm back now lol