Projects and Publications
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Ladies & Ink:
Female Tattooists
​​'Ladies & Ink: Female Tattooists' is a collection of 100+ ladies who tattoo around the world. 'Female Tattooists' celebrates the tattoo work, paintings and ladies themselves who make up theindustry today. It holds a variety of talent ranging from watercolor to acrylic to embroidery to handkerchiefs to oils and back to tattoos. Ladies & Ink itself is a community for female tattooists created by female tattooists. My hope in creating this book is to inspire awareness and collaboration between tattooists utilizing all mediums without the limitation of country, oceans or solitude. With 100+ female tattooists, a few include: Loretta Leu [Switzerland], Debra Yarian [US], Horiren the First [Japan], Virginia Elwood [US], Tai Iglesias [Spain], Marie Sena [US], Katja Ramirez [US}, Lina Stigsson [Netherlands], Jaclyn Rehe [UK], Anna Day [Australia], Alix Ge [France], Giulia Frederica [Italy], Silvia Zed [UK], Guen Douglas [Netherlands], Camila Rocha [US], Bruna Yonashiro [Brazil], Sarah Bolen [Germany] & many more
Ladies & Ink:
The Flash Collection
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Ladies & Ink: The Flash Collection" is a series of collaborative tattoo flash paintings between female tattooists from around the world. 38 pages of premium 12.75" x 10.75" paper with full color interior and exterior ink in a casewrap-hardcover binding displaying 37 collaborative pages of tattoo flash. Mostly watercolor, as well as pencil and prismacolor paintings between 37 female tattooists from around the world available here only! Tattoo artists include: Alice White, Amanda Bonhomme, Amanda Grace Leadman, Amber Lambert, Betty Rose, Britney Goodman, Cynthia Rudzis, Debra Yarian, Diana Regalado, Emily Shoichet, Emma Griffiths, Erica Flannes, Eva Jean, Giulia Frederica, Hayley Lakeman, Jen Carmean, Jenn Small, Judith White, Julie Becker, Karin Schwaiger, Kate Collins, Lana Gooding, Lara Scotton, Lea Reutimann, Lindsay Dorman, Megan Elizabeth Fernandez, Megan Emery, Nichole Smith, Rachael Shelly, Krysta Robertson, Ruby Woodard, Sandi Calistro, Sara Purr, Stacie Jascott, Tina Marabito & Wendi Ramirez
Inked Magazine:
Australia
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"Ladies & Ink is a book displaying a collection of collaborative artwork between female tattooists from around the world, put together by Dana Melissa Dixon. It started out as a winter flash project and became a yearlong endeavour with over 40 flash sheets completed. It holds a variety of talent ranging from watercolour to acrylic to embroidery to handkerchiefs to oils and back to tattoos, including from old-timers including Loretta Leu, Shanghai Kate and Debra Yarian. Below she explains the origin of the book."