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Autumnal beanbag

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Hey everyone!

Autumn is here and I just completed my last guest spot for the year in Bristol!

I will be working mainly in Bicester now till March (maybe with a day or two in Keynsham if everything goes well!)

I now have a bunch of tattoo photos from recent I will share!

Cheryl had a devil that was not successfully covered once before, she asked for super bright and bold roses to cover it-but we only needed one to cover! (you can always add more!)

before photo!
as you can see it covered great! Cheryl wanted Bright and BOLD and I can always happily oblige that request!

cover ups are one of my favourite things to do!

This Dolly Parton chicken tattoo was for Molly who requested it before the untimely death of our sweet country queen

we managed to finish off Joe’s arm with this beautiful coastal scene and some swallows for his sweet little family!

I was really happy with this one, I’d love to do more scenery/landscape tattoos

So this one was a huge, difficult harry potter tattoo cover up for Callie who LOVES cryptids and mysterious shit as much as I do! What a dream to do the mothman all dressed up and having a BALL! Thankyou for this request Callie I absolutely loved every second of this!

I got to make this sweet little scorpion for one of my favourite people to tattoo! I love a bit of black and grey!

A couple of kingfishers this year!

a sneak peek of this cormorant leg we’ve been working on for charlie!

Hope you’ve enjoyed this little selection! I will eventually get round to putting them on Instagram but Meta is evil so I am trying for my own sanity to spend as little time on it as possible (think Frodo with the ring)

thankyou for looking! xx

Bicester-y Mystery Solved

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I figured out why work was dead! Google business page had suspended my account after I changed my address, I have now started a new one for hanbear and everything is once again rollin’

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Technology huh, who else just wants to go back to how things were before smartphones?

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I might get some postcards printed…

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I will be mainly based at all yours tattoo co in Bicester, Oxfordshire for the forseeable future! Working on my cover up game and saving up for a lil wee boat.

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If anybody fancies a tattoo or two let me know on hannahcalavera@hotmail.co.uk

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thankyou

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xx

Prints

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Hey everyone!

I have made some prints for the Black Shuck Festival in Bungay

These are Giclee prints of The weeping horse of Trowse and Old Shuck, based on the weird and wonderful folklore of East Anglia. They are for sale at my Big Cartel.

I’ve been using the extra time to really get back into doing art for myself, I hope to do some flash of all the things I enjoy.

These themes include animism, psychedelics, esoterica, ancient history, mystical themes, celtic artwork, welsh folklore, cryptids, ancient artwork, ancient Egypt, the natural world, landscapes and animation.

spring

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Another blog post to boost the ol’ SEO thingie!

I have been working between Bristol, Bicester and some midlands placements but I soon am to be guesting in Wales more often to try and find a more permanent tattoo studio to have as a base! then I will be in Bicester and Bristol once a month each too!

Guest spots at the moment just don’t get booked up as they used to (no surprise in this current climate!)

But this has left me with a really amazing “problem” to try and figure out. With more spare time than ever what does a girl do to try and make the world a better place whilst also earning some money?

If anyone has any ideas I’d be super thrilled to hear

I’ve been litter picking, volunteering and wwoofing but I can’t help but feel there is something more I could be doing right now to help the world. I will never give up being a tattoo artist, but having more time to work on designs and put intention into every piece has made me realise that I love this way of working. I feel like I have way more time and energy to give to my clients and definitely prefer working this way.

I want to practice more intentional spiritual tattooing, in more of a natural environment. I hope to one day have a cabin in the woods style private studio for me and a friend who both follow the Wu Wei…until that time though I shall keep finishing off all the unfinished work I have out there and trying to figure out what my part to play in the universe is.

Once again I’m going to type a bunch of words for the algorithm lol. Tattoos, tattoo artist, tattoo studio Bicester, Bristol, Ceregigion, Wales, Powys, art, Oxford, London. Sorry if anyone actually reads this haha

Hannah

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Freedom is just around the corner

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Hey everyone, another fairly pointless update to try and push my website up the google rankings lol! Not much to report since the last one!

As the world slowly decides the systems we have built have lead to nothing but our own suffering it feels like we are in now in a kind of death rattle for capitalism and the illusion of democracy! It is, a funny old time.

Tattooing has certainly become more quiet in the last few months, and I’m not surprised- it is a luxury. The first things to take a downturn when the recession hits!

I’ve seen some tattooists online doing videos, saying why getting tattooed is important and even videos which imply that you should be spending money on tattoos over other things. I think this is kinda bollocks tbh. It is not a necessity and although we would all LOVE to be getting tattooed left right and centre -it’s just not a priority for most people who are struggling right now. Including myself.

A few years ago I decided to take a step back from tattooing full time to build some skills which i felt could be of benefit to humanity and nature, I am still trying to build that skill base, whilst at the same time continue to tattoo as much as I feasibly can.. Earning less money would have been a problem in Bristol but luckily i got a van and decided to live in that to avoid having to pay astronomical rent “for a year” whilst i did these other things. After 1 year I didn’t like the thought of going back- the rest is history!

Trying to live as cheaply as possible is actually pretty great but this has meant that getting tattooed, unless its for swaps right now is out of the window. Which is unfortunate as I have a lot ( a LOT) of unfinished work!

Because of this, I was thinking of doing pay what you can afford tattoo days a couple of days a month for people who need to get work finished but are in a similar situation. If you are maybe the one human who ever sees this blog and you need stuff finishing and you think it’s worth a shot email me!

hannahcalavera@hotmail.co.uk

Oh also as usual I split my time

at least once a month in Bristol, and once a month in Bicester, Oxfordshire.

Lots more travel dates and places on my travel page though!

Tattoos and nature

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Hello

long time no blog!

I spent January with a friend doing art at an artist retreat at glorious Mud and Wool in Wales, and since then have been marooned in Bicester whilst Dick Van-Dyke awaits a needed (but very spenny) repair! Luckily the lovely ladies at Allyours tattoo have welcomed me with open arms into their lovely tattoo studio to get back to the craft! It’s been really lovely to chill and not travel for a little bit though!

I have added more dates, locations and tattoo studios to my travel page and all are available to book in at now. Thankyou to all my clients who have been super patient with me over the last few years since I have been pursuing my bushcraft dream but I shall definitely be knuckling down and making it a priority to finish off everybody’s tattoos!

I have also decided to spend some time making some tattoo flash of my special interests in the esoteric, nature, welsh folklore, aliens and psychedelica!

I’m just going to type out some of the places I will be guesting for SEO purposes lol

Daventry, Leicester, Bicester, Oxford, Wales, Ceredigion, Aberystwyth, Wiltshire,

Prints fah sale

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Hey everyone! I managed to do a really exciting thing and made a bigcartel shop

IT CAN BE FOUND HERE

I am selling all my cat prints, and to get around bigcartel fees I have uploaded a bunch of smaller photos. I’ll post bigger versions here now so you can inspect them properly!

If you would like to buy some but pay with paypal email me with the prints you want hannahcalavera@hotmail.co.uk and I can sort it out that way too! Also all prints will be available at the studio in Bristol if you’d rather see and buy them IRL

I also have this A3 leggy boi print for sale

And this tiger

and these two as well!

Anyway! I hope your lockdowns aren’t going too badly. I hope we will be allowed to work again soon but I’m not holding out! Therefore everyone who was rescheduled will only be rebooked once we get a definite date to go back to work!

Hannah x

Purple Rose Bristol

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Hey everyone!

I’ve added some more “wannados” to the art section,

Here are the tattoos I’d like to make!

Also here is a work in progress from last week I tattooed on my friend Leigh!

It’s a concept piece based on her personality and life experience. I’m hoping to tailor more of my tattoo designs in this way.

Also I got to tattoo Emily’s old Cat pal Lelu on her last week! Old kitties are so cute.

Thanks for looking!

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Purple Rose

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Hey everyone! Some great news! After my guest spot at Purple Rose Tattoo Studio in Bristol I had such a good time I decided to go and work there permanently! Everyone there is so nice and the studio and atmosphere are amazing!

I also got to make some great tattoos last week!

A grey lop rabbit on Tara who sat like a champ for it!

And I also go to make Jess’ little pirate bear Alice the Shitzu so she has her forever now!

I got a healed photo of the start of Zoe’s horsey before I coloured it and made it all swollen again! One more session and it’ll be finished and I can show yall how fancy it’s looking!

I’m doing my best at keeping this blog updated. I feel pretty inspired again after the last couple of weeks so expect even more!!

 

 

Cardiff

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Hello! What a hectic few weeks but very very fruitful! So after leaving Southmead Tattoo Studio I had a few guest spots and a bit of travel, the penultimate destination was Cardiff! I guested with my good friend Patryk  Mazur at his own little amazing studio Surrealistic Sanctuary on City Road.

My biggest thanks to Patryk, I really had the best time and as usual he went above and beyond to help me out. deffo go give his Instagram a follow.

I made some more progress on Dave’s Slow Sleeve tattoo

Sloth is healed and the tortoise is only half done but I am really looking forward to getting more on this done 😀

Also Dave shared with me a photo of his cat Jacob with his tattoo!

I also did a bit more on Mark’s Dia de los muertos gal

It has got a tonne more to go though!

The Cardiff Tattoo convention was also amazing this year. I tattooed Dan’s other Chi Leela on his thigh. He sat for 6 hours with a broken leg (no painkillers) to get this done. He is a hard bastard!

Also amazingly I won an award for best of day!

Me Ruthey, Dan, Dan and Brodie went out afterwards to celebrate like the old farts we are and had a really fancy dinner!

Cardiff was great! I had the best time and hope to be back next year! Such a nice friendly convention!

 

Hannah

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