Tattooed Portraits: New Paintings by Shawn Barber

by Shawn Barber

This full-color fine art book showcases a select group of paintings in Shawn Barber’s portraiture series on well-known contemporary painters and tattoo artists. The paintings range from traditional representational portraits to colorful, expressionistic abstractions. Through his refined skills and modern expressionistic techniques, Shawn’s paintings are complex emotional responses to the subject being tattooed, the designs and tattoo artists, including Mike Giant, Grime, Mike Davis, Paul Booth, Helen Garber, Marcus Pacheco, Jeremy Fish, Henry Lewis, Owen Smith and Tara McPherson.

Genres: Art

112 pages, Paperback

First published March 30, 2006