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This is a small linocut that I did measuring 5×3 inches printed on heavy black card stock with metalic ink. I, personally have been using these as business cards and personalizing each one by using an extra thin metallic paint pen. My clients love the personal hand crafted nature of each card, as each card is a unique piece of art.

You can purchase a set of cards for yourself at strawcastledesign.com as well as etsy.com.

This is a tattoo design that I did for an Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” chest piece. I really had a lot of fun with this design so I thought I’d post some of the steps that I went through in designing this tattoo.
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This is a design that I did for the tattoo contest ofver at ShirtFight.com. The commpetition was stiff but I pulled out the win!

This design is a play on traditional Americana tattoo design. Historically sailors going off to see would get tattooed to document their travels and experiences, some of those sailors would not make it back home. This is a tattoo based design using a traditional diving helm to honor that tradition.

This is an approved design for Def Leppard. The direction for this was pretty specific, that they wanted a light colored female’s Chinese Dragon design with water color style coloring using the text “Love Bites”. They originally wanted the design on a light colored tee but then decided they’d like to see it on dark as well.

After a long wait, the designs that I created for Poison were finally approved! I was increadibly excited about this project. The creative direction for each of these designs was do create something that incorporated elements of Traditional Americana Tattoo design. They wanted one female designa and one male design. I wanted to do something that captured the creative direction but at the same time added something that would capture the glame of poison.