Check out the work at the Artists for the Boston Marathon Fund group page to see the many ways that artists are donating works to help victims of tragedy. https://www.facebook.com/ArtistsForTheBostonMarathonFund I've decided to donate proceeds of 20 11x17" poster sized prints to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, so that responses to future disasters can [...]
Here's a tattoo trial I did for a half torso tribal fire chest design. The guy who is thinking about getting this as a permanent tattoo recently turned 50, and feels like he is now on fire! Everything is going right in his life, he's doing big bold things, and he wants this tattoo as [...]
The Banshee Paranormal Festival was awesome! November Party, The Evil Streaks, and Reverend Bastien all played great sets. (The Evil Streaks were so good I had to buy two of their CDs - one for me and one for my dad, who will love their punky 60's rock / rockabilly sound.) The Varnum Armory was [...]
I had a great time doing henna at Nixi Expo in metro west Boston (Waltham)! Here are some of my favorite henna photos from the event. I met so many wonderful people, and was so happy to spend time with them and do custom designs to suit their desires. Notes on the photos themselves: I [...]
I just read a blog post on etiquette for face painters, by Kate of The Face Painting School. Tip #7, regarding "You’ll often get asked to donate your services," really hit home for me, because it seemed like the requests for free work were even more numerous than usual this week. As Kate correctly says, [...]
You guys already know about the differences between natural henna (which is all I use!) and harmful chemical PPD so-called "black henna", right? This recently aired bit from WPRI has some good info on why you should never let PPD touch your skin, but takes its sweet time in getting to really distinguishing between chemical [...]
Here's some Indian bridal style henna I did at the 2013 Henna Gathering. I did this one on my newfound henna friend Marlene. Indian bridal mehndi with zardosi glitter gel Radha portrait detail from a traditional Indian bridal design done at the 2013 Henna Gathering Here's a photo I took of [...]
I had a lovely appointment yesterday with Sarah! She wants to get her foot tattooed in a design that looks like henna, and sent me some photos for inspiration that ran the full gamut of traditional henna. From dainty and relatively simple Moroccan slippers to detailed and intricate Indian bridal henna, she likes it all. [...]
In India, the shape we call a paisley in the US is known as "ambi", or mango. I had known this for quite some time, and knew a bit of the imperial history behind why we in the US have come to know the mango shape as "paisley". In short, folks from the British empire [...]
I've been watching All American Muslim a bit. I like the show a lot so far. I like that it shows a wide variety of people with a wide range of perspectives on their religion. I think it is a good show and am so far pretty happy with the portrayal they are presenting. I'm [...]