Angelique Houtkamp

I have always been interested in tattoos and have never had the oppertunity to get one before i moved to uni last september, but now i've got my first one and i love it :)For years i have been collecting tattoo books and magazines and i have come across many artists who do tattoos or tattoo related artwork that really interest me. I plan to write about these on here and also upload some of my own artwork that has been inspired by these artists... so here is my first one :)

Angelique Houtkamp - I'm so in love with her right now... I ordered both of her books from amazon (tattoo darling and tattoo mystique) and i really like her unique style and western-traditional style tattoo designs.

I would recommend these books for anyone who is interested in tattoos, they were reasonably inexpensive but are both full of beautiful, colourful images and interesting articles/interviews- very inspirational.
On looking through the books there were a couple of images in particular that really caught my eye, so i decided to draw my own versions of these in line that i may later add colour to.

The same elements tend to appear in her work but in different arrangements, imagery such as hearts, anchors, rope, flowers, eyes, skulls, swallows, keyholes, arrows, horseshoes, daggers, snakes, women and lightning bolts. I think it's really fun to come up with designs by combining these elements... much experimentation to be done! :)