Deanna James is a popular tattoo artist in Dallas who’s known for her tattoos that channel baroque art. The co-owner of Eden Body Art Studios in North Dallas...
The artist shifted from traditional painting to tattoo art while at Booker T. Washington High School.
Tattooing is absolutely an art,” she said. “I’ve tried out every art form imaginable: printmaking, photography, watercolor, jewelry making, ceramics, sculpture. Tattooing is by far the hardest medium to accomplish.Tattoo artists manage to create art in the most unlikely of circumstances, she said. Think about drawing with a buzzing machine that has a three-second ink flow on a person who could be moving around. Not to mention the safety precautions that come with working with delicate skin.
“It was very taboo for me to say, ‘I don’t want to go to an art college and become a tattoo artist,’"she said. “So I was told that I wouldn’t get anywhere with it or make any money with it and it was going to be a big failure.”It’s like an art boot camp. You’re just hanging out, drawing with people till all hours of the morning and cameras are in your face for 15 hours a day,” James said.Despite her success, James said her start in the tattoo industry was scary and hard.
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