Tattooed Portraits: New Paintings by Shawn Barber

Tattooed Portraits is a 112 page full color fine art book showcasing a select group of paintings in Shawn Barber’s portraiture series on well known contemporary painters and tattoo artists. The paintings range from traditional representational portraits to colorful, expressionistic abstractions. Through his refined skills and modern expressionistic techniques Shawn’s paintings provide us with complex emotional responses to the subject being tattooed, tattoo designs, the tattooing artists applying the ink, along with Shawn’s inner vision through unique compositions and personal experience with ink in his skin. Tattooed Portraits contains portraits of well known artists such as Mike Giant, Grime, Mike Davis, Paul Booth, Helen Garber, Marcus Pacheco, Jeremy Fish, Henry Lewis, Owen Smith and Tara McPherson.