Shawn Barber is a tattoo artist, painter, and portraitist based out of LA, California. Earning his BFA from Ringling he has traveled the world for his shows an exhibits as far from LA as Australia and Asia. His passion has always been tattoos and tattooing so naturally one of his favorite subject matter is portraits of people and the ink they have on their body. they way he can flawlessly create tattooed skin tones is amazing and the texture of the work is flawless. You can tell he truly understands the medium he is using the the medium he is trying to convey which is really saying something about his painting. Barbers paintings of tattoos have been said to be intimate renditions of tattooed individuals balance both meticulous brush strokes and loose energy. Aside from his tattoo portraits he also has a series of dolls that i will show several slides of after the ink portraits that are really creepy and ironic because you would shit your self if your children were playing with these. His plastic like style of painting these dolls is ridiculous in some and often it doesn't even look real.
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