A holiday break

A busy person I have been for just over a week and a half. I travelled to Whakatane in the North Island of New Zealand where my uncle owns a Nursery. Nestled in a gully with no cell reception, and dial-up for internet I found time to experiment with my editing software.
 I had also realised that there hadn't been a windy day my entire stay. Reason being the position in the gully pretty much escapes the wind more than not. We had frosty mornings (It's winter here) and glorious fine days. It was a great break away.
 Here is a tattoo design I worked on in CorelDraw Graphics Suite X6. Although I have added no shading, I still think the onlooker can use their imagination and create their own shading, colour, and add your own elements to turn this into something you might like to get tattooed. To me it has some resemblance to a Cuttlefish or squid. I'm not that great at using the software yet and only rely on youtube as and when required rather than read the instructions (which 90% of it I would forget). I'm more of a visual person so reading hampers my efforts due to not being able to retain what I've read.
Well, I hope you like what you see and should you want to use the design I would like to see the results. Of course it's free to use so no obligation.
BTW it is 72dpi. I do have a 300dpi image so if you want to contact me I can send that to you.

Tattoo design

This design has a negative and a positive flame incorporated into it. It is an old design I worked on using GIMP as the editing software. Ignore the copyright. If you want to use it, go for it. It would be nice if you added a comment as a courtesy though.

Two new bone carvings

Here are my latest bone carvings. One was based on the outer shape of a tear/raindrop so it's title is rain droplet. The other one I'm not sure what it looks like to others but it looks like a particular part of a male appendage. It is actually a contemporary designed fish hook (Hei Matau).

New work completed

Here are a few more Gecko designs. I've done my dash for these. I'm going to work on some new bone carvings over the next week and also a sculpture. There are some little light blurs happening on the top image created from the gloss surface the image was resting on for the photo.
 I'm house sitting for the next week and it looks like I might not have internet access for that week. Merry Xmas everybody.

Torso

I bought this mannequin torso a few years ago for displaying my T-shirt designs and Jewelry but the other day decided to transform it into it's own piece of art. Covered in Maori design to fit my other works I've been working on to form a collection of artwork I'm left wondering whether I need to add to the design. I'm going to leave it for a while and see what I come up with. I do have an idea of what to do but am unsure at present.

Free Designs

Here are a few samples of some designs for jewelry. They can also be used for carvings in both stone and wood and even metal jewelry. You can see the full 99 images at darrengartist.wordpress.com
Please share some of your work taken from my designs just so I can see how others interpret them.

Logo design

So, it goes like this. I decided to create my own logo for my wordpress site. I hadn't considered size and as the site/theme header was rectangular (beats me why I didn't check this out first) I was stuck with a design that will need some reworking. I am so disappointed. Anyway, you can view my designs at http://www.darrengartist.wordpress.com. At present I only have free designs on my site. I will be uploading images of new paintings I have completed in the last few days along with bone carvings.