Art from the Heart: Tatootime, Number 5

do you think you are serious about tattooing? consider yourself a bit of an expert on it? and you don't have this book? (not even any of the other tattootime issues?) then re-think and re-consider! anyone serious about tattooing, its backgrounds, its history should have this book. and all the other four issues. they are all out on hardy marks publications; the publishing company owned and run by don ed hardy. whom you should know.this volume is entitled "art from the heart" and goes into a bit of a different direction than the previous four "tattootime" books; which also has to do with the fact that it has a lot more pages. it goes more deeply into works of artists (with lots of photographic examples): tattoo legend bob shaw, thomas woodruff (paintings, not tattoos!), thom de vita, cynthia witkin (very unusual and unique style of tattooing!) and michael malone (a very respected figure in the tattooing community). all of them are very interesting artists. there's an article (and photographs) about "weirdo art and the rebirth of bold american classics" (meaning classic tattto designs). another one by tricia allen (who has done a lot of great research on lots of tattooing traditions!) entitled "european explorers and marquesan tattooing - the wildest island style"; very informative and educating. the second last article is dedicated to samoan tattoo chief suluape petelo, and the last one takes a look at how tribal tattooing has developed over the years, since it had first gotten big-time attention in "tattootime 1", back in 1982!again, i feel, this book is worth the money for the photographs alone!