Witchcraft.

Tonight will be our night of celebrating witches and witchcraft at conspiracy inc. Drop by for a sweet, or evil, little witch tattoo from the witchy flash that I did or just come hang out and drink a beer and listen to some sweet witchy tunes. The originals of the flash will also be for sale tonight and so is my sweet sexy witch Tshirt.
So drop by tonight. We start at 4 and end when we don't feel like it anymore.


Here is a little preview of the some of the flash. Almost done.

Hope to see you tonight!

Operation black Lionheart

Last weekend was the opening of my first solo show ever. Faces of Black Metal. Lionheart Tattoo Gallery was nice enough to let me hang my paintings and photos on their walls for a while so please go check them out and make it worth their time... and also to make me happy! Shoot them an email first to make sure that they are open just in case.

There is about 26 paintings all inspired or based on Peter Beste's book "True Norwegian Black Metal". To mix it up a bit I also show some photos of Norways forest and the Fantoft church that got burned down.
A catalogue will be available on their site soon if you are interested in buying one of these evil bad boys! I have to say that is hard to judge the paintings from the catalogue since it is only parts of the paintings and without the fancy frame work done by my awesome wife, who worked her ass off to make the frames all nice and ready in time for the show. 


I don't want to ruin the experience of going there to see the paintings in person so you will have to do with these two teaser pictures. 


I want to say thanks to everyone who came to the show and apologize for being a social retard who don't know how to mingle. 


I will end this post with some good Black Metal news. It looks like God Seed is back in evil business and working on a new album. 

Faces Of Black Metal

You are hereby all invited to come to my gallery opening on the 24th of March at the Lionheart Gallery. The show will be of my paintings based on or inspired by, photos from Peter Beste and his book, "True Norwegian Black Metal".

  

I am really excited to show you all these paintings and I am happy that Peter agreed to let me use hi s photos and that Igor and Meike from Lionheart wants to show the product.

I will also be showing a few photos from my trip to Norway where my goal was to capture the roots of Black metal. For me the Norwegian nature plays a huge roll in why Norwegian, or scandinavian black metal sounds the way it does and seperates it self from the rest of the genre. Some photos are taken with my digital camera and some is taken analogue and developed by myself in our own darkroom. 

I hope to see some of you there!

Lionheart Tattoo Gallery

Weseler Straße 146

46149 Oberhausen

Home, sweet Japanese home

First off i would like to thank everyone who wanted to be part of my black metal book and jumped in on short notice to get tattooed in the upcoming month. I hope you are as excited as I am. This means that there is no more room for requests BUT it doesn't mean that you can't get you black metal tattoo later either.... And no it doesn't mean that you have to get satanic stuff either. So thanks to all who made it and thank to all that didn't but got on the waiting list instead.

Now to the real post. It is brought to you by my iPhone in association with Instagram.
The last day of our short Japan trip has come. This trip has felt super short in some ways and ok long on other ways. It has been so packed with work and stuff that it feels like we must have been here longer but getting reminded about all the things we didn't have the time to do make me remember that it has only been two weeks. But that's ok. You know why? Because we are coming back in April and will stay for a whole month!! Yeah!! This makes it easier to go back home tomorrow.
We will be back here and in Ink Rat from the 8th of April till the 8th of May. There is some days reserved for actual vacation but there is plenty of openings to get tattooed. So if you are interested in getting something done on our next trip then book it with Hata on inkrat00@yahoo.jp and let him know what you want to get and where and size.
But it has been great to be back to the place that I love so much and that I have missed since we haven't been able to go here for over a year. Funny thing is that not much have changed. Don't know why you expect that everything will change as soon as you turn your back to a place for two seconds. It's the same feeling we get when returning to Denmark after a long trip. Why haven't anything changed?
Ok I have tons of things I want to say about this trip and I can see from how I'm already rambeling that it could take a while and honestly... I rather get out and enjoy my last day in Tokyo. So here is some pretty pictures to look at. There might be a tattoo or two that's missing. Secret stuff. Yeah!! I wanted to put text under the photos but i don't know how to from the phone so you will have to do with just pictures. Ok so here they are. See you soon with more news.

London news.

Here is a quick post made from my iPhone so I'm sorry if it doesn't look like it is supposed to. This is the first time I try this blogger app but I have had noooo time to blog for a while. Every day working and going home afterward to paint for my London flash. Still not done yet but this is the last chance I have to post a preview of what you can get done at this weekends London tattoo convention. There is no appointments so just drop by and see if there is an opening and something you like. Every design will only be done once so it will remain exclusive.
Now if you will excuse me I have a tattoo to do before packing and finishing my flash.

upon the wings of Blaaaaack!!!

The opening of the Scream With Me show in San Francisco was a few days ago so I think it's time that I show what I did for it. All 3 paintings are A3 size (+ frame.) and are all for sale at the gallery so hurry up and go there if you wanna get away with one of these evil ladies.
If anyone have been to the show or go there please let me know how it was. I wish I could have been there myself because there is a whoooole bunch of good artist in that show. Pheeww!!
Hope you like the gals... but what's not to like? Sex, skulls and corpse paint. Am I right?

So here they are. Let me know what you think.

I Scream

You Scream

We Scream

And of course this post needs some music video as well. We can't stop the video madness just yet so here is a bit of...mmm... mood music.

One that I like:

...and one for the fancy makeup and funny faces...I mean evil faces...yes!

...a little tip: Try watching the last video without sound...not so scary any more.

SCREAM FOR ME SAN FRANCISCO

Hi ya'll!
I'm back. Back from London. Back to a more daily routine. Back to this blog.

Before I get into all the things that I have been up to I would like to start with this post. This has been one of the reasons why there has been a lack of posts here on the blog. I have been invited to join a group show in San Francisco called "Scream With Me". It is an honour to be among these people, a lot of whom I really admire. I don't even understand that I was asked to be a part of this but I am stoked about it and I just wish I could be there myself to see the show. If it wasn't for our recent trip to the London convention (see following post) and our upcoming trip to Japan, I would take the trip to SF to be there at the opening. So if you find your self in the area please go check it out and represent me.
I was asked for 3 paintings so I decided to do a series around "scream". "I scream", "You Scream" and "We Scream". A bit cheesy perhaps but I hope people will look more at the paintings than the title. I'm not gonna spoil it for the gallery or the people who wanna go there so here is just a small tease but I can say this much...If you like chicks and corpse paint and bit of erotic then you might like these 3 paintings.


They will be for sale at the gallery so if you wanna own one of my originals framed in a nice matt black frame then here is your chance.

Here is the flyer.

Well, I'm not gonna let you hanging there after a tease so here is a painting I finished a while ago. Just got it framed today and finally got to blog it too. It is already hanging on our Conspiracy walls so come check it out if you are in the hood.


I was gonna continue my music video thing and I will but I think this is fitting for the post. Enjoy and see you soon. More posts are coming in a bit.

The force is strong with this one...

We are off to California for some good times with our OC buddies and later some more international hanging at Long Beach. Hopefully our beloved Quality Suites will supply us with internet so there will be chances for blogging. Due to extreme busy times at the shop I havn't even gone through the Japan pictures yet so that will have to wait.

Since we have to leave for the airport now I will leave you with this little teaser. I will show the real deal later. This is from the New York tattoo convention where there was an artshow celebrating the anniversery of Empire Strikes Back. I got this picture of my paintings from the man behind the show! AWESOME!!



Now I must fly away!

Zoo For Sale

As promised here is a post with the painting for sale and the measurements. But first...a few tattoos.

This first little 2 headed eagle was simply glowing too much when we first finished it so I was happy to be able to get a healed shot of it today. Still a bit touch up to come but good enough for now.




Second guest was James who came back to get on with his backpiece after a looooong time. "Backpiece you say, Allan. But that is a leg?" Yes but we decided to move on a bit and start on one of the legs that goes with said backpiece. It was a bit tricky since I had two find the 2 year old drawings to match waves and flowers but it will work! Good job on that James.

And now for the paintings!

These are the original paintings that I will be selling until next Wednesday. After that I might just keep them and also we will be leaving for Japan so in order to ship them out before the last day will be Wednesday the 31st of march.
I am happy to say that one of them is already sold. The rooster is going to the Uk in a days time. Thanks!!!
This part of the post will be updated as they go so you will know what is left.

So here they are.

Hourglass.
50 x 39 cm / 19,6 x 15,3 inch
4500 dkr / 600 € / 800$



Sealion.
31 x 41 cm / 12,2 x 16,1 inch
4500dkr / 600€ / 800$



Elephant.
52 x 36,5 cm / 20,4 x 14,3 inch
4500dkr / 600€ / 800$



Deer.
43 x 30,5 cm / 16,9 x 12 inch
4500dkr / 600€ / 800$



Unicorn Pegasus.
43 x 30,5 cm / 16,9 x 12 inch
4500dkr / 600€ / 800$



Swan.
41 x 31 cm / 16,1 x 12,2 inch

As a little extra treat I'm gonna throw in a print of the painting that you buy.
To buy one (or two) write me an email on onkelallan@gmail.com
Payment will be through paypal.

Later

Just a quick one before bedtime...

I have been meaning to do this post all weekend but other things got in the way...like a couch...food...coffee...important stuff! Well here is what I started Friday. I know it has been a while since I posted any in progress picture but here is one. It will be dark. Ohhh yes!! Mostly black and a bit of red...still debating about a putting a bit of green in there as well or just keep it ohh so simple! Any thoughts?



Here is a little thing I spat out tonight. It's kinda a test of some new style of antler girls. I wanna try something more rough sketchy style and also switch the victorian look with a more everyday (but still sexy) kinda thing. We will see where this will end soon enough. Here is a tease to begin with.

Now it is time for bed!