Tattoo paintings

As you might know I’m recently studying the art of tattooing. Painting a lot of flash with watercolours…but sometimes I can’t resist my acrylics! So here’s the result. It was kind of an expiriment to paint flash images with acryl on canvas. I think I won’t paint this kind of pictures with acrylics in the near future anymore..I think a painting should look like a painting and a tattoo should look like a tattoo. Right now I’m planning a new painting wich is “tattoo-inspired” ;)


Published by Michiel van der Born, on January 18th, 2012.

FIEND PROJECTS EXPO

Very happy to be part of the Fiends Familia!  See you in Antwerp!

Exhibition and Event Schedule
(dates/times subject to change)

Opening Day: Saturday 7th January (2pm – 6pm)

Fiend Projects Exhibition
(featuring Michiel van der Born, Sam de Buysscher, Snap Clicker, Dzia, Mark Goss, Laurens Groven, Gil Guerra, Saskia Haex, KYLAM, Klaas Van der Linden, Amy van Loon, Steve Locatelli, Lars Moereels, Niki Pilkington, Ailisha Read, A Squid called Sebastian, David Shillinglaw, Jorrit Spoelstra, Bruce Tsai-Meu-Chong and Topo )

Invited Artists Exhibition
(featuring Amatic, Bart Aalbers, Bram de Ceurt, Ingrid De Lugt, Sacha Eckes, Ephameron, Erick Hikups, Jelmer Noordeman, New 2, Frederick Schneiders, Jan Werkt and more TBC)


Published by Michiel van der Born, on January 2nd, 2012.

The Traveller

Hi there! It’s a long time ago I did a post on here. Very busy with learning tattooing and family business. But still painting in my spare time, offcourse. This is the most recent painting I did, called “the traveller”, 120×70cm, acryl on canvas. In the near future I’ll change the looks of this website and I’ll post more tattoo related artworks, like flash paintings and tattoos I did…Hopefully you gonna like it!


Published by Michiel van der Born, on December 18th, 2011.

WHALE

Here’s a sketch for a painting I’ll start soon. I got a bit carried away with it so it’s hardly a sketch anymore but almost a finished product…


Published by Michiel van der Born, on October 25th, 2011.

LEARN

Her’s my new painting called “Learn”. It’s 45×25cm, acryl, gold leaf and rub-on letters on wood. Hope you like it!


Published by Michiel van der Born, on October 6th, 2011.

Flash

Practicing my flash painting skills…


Published by Michiel van der Born, on September 17th, 2011.

THE KRAKEN

Finished my new design for a screenprint called ” The Kraken”.

The Kraken is a giant Cephalopod of the deep seas infamous in sailing lore. Described as a massive, many-tentacled Squid or Octopus large enough and strong enough to crush large wooden sea vessels and devour entire crews, the mere mention of the creature filled sailor’s hearts with dread. Aside from storms, reefs, rocks and iceburgs, it was about the worst thing in the sea a ship could encounter!

Soon available as a screenprint!


Published by Michiel van der Born, on September 14th, 2011.

Sketching

Here are some lettering sketches I worked on recently. Maybe I’m going to vectorize or paint them…I’ll let you know!


Published by Michiel van der Born, on August 31st, 2011.

BOLD WILL HOLD

I love to paint and I love letters. Here a new piece called : “BOLD WILL HOLD”.  Acryl on cut out wood. Me and my girlfriend are planning to do much more hand painted signes…so stay tuned!


Published by Michiel van der Born, on August 24th, 2011.

Show in Rotterdam

New and old works showing together with Mark Goss! Be there!


Published by Michiel van der Born, on August 14th, 2011.