Tattoo of the month: Richie

You can find Richie at our Rochelle Park studio

Come by our Rochelle Park studio off of Rt. 17 South, and make an appointment with any of our artists!

Graffiti girl Solveig Barlow hailed as 'the new Banksy'

A 10-year-old girl has taken the graffiti art world by storm with a series of spectacular creations ... but don't compare her to famous graffiti artist Banksy.

Primary school student Solveig Barlow has been described as as “the young Picasso of street art”, and compared to satirical street artist Banksy, whose work sells for up to $896,266.

Solveig has created more than 20 legal works on walls around Brighton, Sussex, and has earned a legion of fans along the way.

She started painting at age eight and is now regularly seen meticulously spray-painting walls on a patch of wastleland near her home.

But Sloveig has pleaded for people to stop comparing her to famous graffiti artist Banksy, saying their creations are very different.

“I don't like being compared to Banksy because what we do is different. I do graffiti and he does stencils,” she said. “It's not the same thing.”

Solveig isn’t the only person annoyed over comparisons with Bansky, whose murals have made him a cult figure in the art world and whose customers include Christina Aguilera, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Many bloggers have criticised comparisons of Solveig’s work with Banksy’s.

“She's great and definitely has a very particular style and talent, (kinda relax panda-esque) but this is nothing like Banksy's work,” one commenter said.

Sloveig said she had been overwhelmed by the public’s response to her work.

“I never set out to become known - it just happened,” she said.

Her aim is to create graffiti works that stand out from the crowd.

“I love to make pieces that are as crazy as I can make them. I have no plans to stop so watch out for me.”

Mario Barth on the History Channel

We've been working with the History channel on this up-coming series and they came by the shop to shoot some stuff with Mario.

Our boy Mike also came by to get tattooed while they were shooting the episode.

Killing it!

Fire Jones... and this piece only took 3 hours!

BB King and Buddy Guy

Sorry for slacking on the blog lately, but we've been on the road like crazy!
Here are some cool things that we had a chance to experience over the last few weeks...

First Up we got a chance to go see the legendary B.B. King and Buddy Guy perform. I've had a chance to see these guys live before, but there's something about seeing a show in New York City that just adds something special to the performance.

A lot of history here

Carol and Mario

A Special Place

Billy, Carol, Mario, and Tommy

Mr. Buddy Guy

Buddy Guy brought out this 9 year old guitar prodigy Quinn Sullivan who absolutely killed it!

Something incredible about watching somebody do exactly what they were born to do-

wow. B.B. King and Buddy Guy pass the torch to this 9 year old kid...

Legend

Doing his thing!

After the show we hit up Blue Ribbon for some late night sushi.

Long time friend of Mario and Starlight Tommy

Tommy showed us his new tattoo of his grandson's name done by Jay over at the Belleville shop. Jay does awesome work- go check him out...