{"id":1681,"date":"2013-04-10T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T10:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2013-04-10T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T10:25:19","slug":"ivana-belakova-tattoos-paintings-onto-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/ivana-belakova-tattoos-paintings-onto-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivana Belakova Tattoos Paintings onto Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slovakian tattoo artist Ivana Belakova got her first tattoo at the tender age of 16 in the back room of a pub. According to the artist, “It was so exciting, especially because I was under age at the time, and we didn\u2019t really have any tattoo shops in Slovakia. \u00a0I was hiding it from my parents for some time, too. \u00a0It was a little ornamental thing.<\/em>” [source]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The bright colors and graffiti-like perspective used in this tattoo design would appeal to an artistic personality. Ivana Belakova has used this pixie character to symbolize fun, innocence, joy and childhood. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An Early Career in Art before Discovering Tattoos<\/h1>\n

Ivana Belakova took an interest in art as a child, constantly drawing and exploring her artistic talent. As a teenager, Belakova began to engage with graffiti art, a form of street art that expressed the ideas, opinions and emotions of her generation in a visual form, using city walls as a canvas.<\/p>\n

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Ivana Belakova draws tattoo inspiration from a number of different art styles and mediums including fine art, graphic design and graffiti art. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After finishing school, Ivana Belakova was offered a job in her friend’s tattoo studio, a position that allowed Belakova to move her art from the canvas of the streets to that of human skin. Although she was uncertain about her potential skill as a tattoo artist, Belakova quickly fell in love with the art form.<\/p>\n

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Artist Ivana Belakova not only tried on a new art form, she also created a new art style for herself through tattooing. In this tattoo design, Belakova takes a classic tattoo subject, a butterfly, and gives it a new aesthetic appeal. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Belakova’s leaves behind Grey Tattoos for Bright Colors<\/h1>\n

Initially, Ivana Belakova worked in black and grey tattoo inks, but friends who were willing to sacrifice their skin space for free tattoos allowed Belakova to experiment on them. Belakova says,\u00a0\u201cI started doing colour tattoos for free after work on my friends who let me create pretty much whatever I wanted. I was experimenting with inks, needles, machines\u2026 to the point where I sort of developed my own style,<\/em>\u201d [source]<\/a><\/p>\n

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This tattoo potrait of a beautiful girl reveals Ivana Belakova’s background with black and grey tattoos. The girl is tattooed in stark contrast, surrounded by emotive colors and elegant black line work. This design would have been appealing in monotone but by adding color, Belakova has transformed this tattoo into an amazing work of art. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Belakova’s move from black and grey tattoos to color tattoos allowed her to expand the number of techniques she used in each body art work. Using color allowed her to employ color contrast; a technique that uses contrasting colors to make certain parts of the designs stand out. Tattooing in color also allowed Ivana Belakova to create eye-popping graphics tattoos with a strict palette; a technique that appeals to the ordered and organized parts of the human brain. This makes Belakova’s colorful tattoo artworks visually and psychologically appealing.<\/p>\n

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This cheerfully colorful tattoo of a sunflower shows Ivana Belakova’s talents with color inks. The artist has created color contrast with the yellow petals against the rich blue sky. These two contrasting colors cause the sunflower’s petals to stand out. Belakova has mimicked the textures of the design as it appeared on paper; the sunflower appears to have been drawn on skin in chalk pastel. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ivana Belakova’s colorful, artistic tattoos are packed with different opacity levels, textures and patterns. Some of these design elements have been used by tattoo artists before Belakova but many spring from the artist’s own imagination. Although Ivana Belakova strives to give her clients exactly what they want, she isn’t afraid to speak up if she feels that something should be added, removed or changed within the tattoo design. When it comes to creating the design, Belakova prefers to be allowed artistic freedom, to “work her magic” with the art work.<\/p>\n

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In this artistic watercolor tattoo, Ivana Belakova has used different opacity levels to create the impression that the girl has been painted onto the skin with watercolor paint. Combining illustrative techniques adds to the artistic nature of this tattoo portrait. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sexy, Symbolic and Sensual Tattoos<\/h1>\n

The differing opacity levels that Belakova uses in her tattoo art gives the tattoos sensualism by appealing to the senses and convincing the brain that the spilled paint is thicker in some areas than others or that the feathers of a bird are stiff and inflexible instead of soft and yielding as in real life. Animals that are furred or hairy in real life may appear in Belakova’s art works with a more textile or plastic surface.<\/p>\n

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In real life giraffes are covered in short hair similar to that of horses. In this tattoo design of a giraffe with three eyes, the animal lacks its natural texture; a design technique that adds to the surrealist nature of this tattoo design. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The animals and objects that Ivana Belakova uses in her tattoo designs are symbolic. For a music lover, Ivana might depict an old gramophone or a casette tape. For a client who wants to express love and passion through body art, Belakova might choose a pair of beautiful, pouty lips as the subject for her tattoo. Every bird, characater and animal used in Ivana’s tattoos have symbolic weight, either as the client’s totem animal, as a representation of a human personality trait or to symbolize a loved one.<\/p>\n

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To express her client’s love of music, Ivana Belakova has given them a tattoo of a cassette tape. The label on the tape adds to the symbolism, allowing the client to choose a phrase or name of a song that is meaningful to them. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ivana Belakova likes to travel and so\u00a0she doesn’t take on large tattoos, preferring smaller projects that can be completed in a few days or weeks. Belakova prefers globetrotting and freelancing\u00a0but when she is in Europe she makes her way to the Tattoo Rascal studio in Slovakia, a tattoo shop that she considers her base. You can contact Tattoo Rascal here<\/a>\u00a0or talk to Ivana Belakova directly via her Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ivana Belakova expresses a love that lasts beyond death in this artistic tattoo of two skeletons kissing in front of the word “love” [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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