The Tattoosday Book Review - Tattoo Sketchbook: Since 1966

We like to review books occasionally here on Tattoosday and wanted to say a little bit about Jim Watson's Tattoo Sketchbook, published earlier this year by ArtKultre, an imprint of Wolfgang Publications.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgGfWgd3jr87fvAggCq8TJLtbNe93LG1RQxx27ZYoDcwUTOypLM9Vop-ieb_PSttxgf9U6B3dU6tpkp3CkjPccC72u2P4drF2xVmCBXKr_IsR4SgkZhVbRX7S6P3NUSj5xI_Rg4puccVc/s1600/tattoo+sketchbook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgGfWgd3jr87fvAggCq8TJLtbNe93LG1RQxx27ZYoDcwUTOypLM9Vop-ieb_PSttxgf9U6B3dU6tpkp3CkjPccC72u2P4drF2xVmCBXKr_IsR4SgkZhVbRX7S6P3NUSj5xI_Rg4puccVc/s400/tattoo+sketchbook.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><br /> There's nothing fancy here, just 95 pages of solid tattoo flash by Jim Watson, who came up in the tattoo business long before it was a "respectable" multi-billion dollar industry.<br /> <br /> Having cut his teeth in the legendary Cliff Raven's shop in Chicago in the late 1960s, Watson moved to his first shop in Denver, eventually landing in Phoenix, Arizona, where he owns Artistic Skin Designs and where, in 1991, he co-founded Superior Tattoo Equipment.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUCxIq_N7l4Os5Om6pszQq_MTbm_x0J5l7csp3ckQozzbx7L4Na9V0pYNkZyMYw6zSUtEkATfT05mJ-lP-lHXDTUuFWhkjTYp-lDIvTn0YZhMBd1zHPIvn9B5JVYDS-MQXQ3o5n3C87I/s1600/Tattoo_Sketchbook_Jim_Watson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUCxIq_N7l4Os5Om6pszQq_MTbm_x0J5l7csp3ckQozzbx7L4Na9V0pYNkZyMYw6zSUtEkATfT05mJ-lP-lHXDTUuFWhkjTYp-lDIvTn0YZhMBd1zHPIvn9B5JVYDS-MQXQ3o5n3C87I/s400/Tattoo_Sketchbook_Jim_Watson.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> If you picked this up in a bookstore, it might not be on the top of your list as <b>the</b> tattoo book to buy, as it has a limited appeal to the general reader. But it seems like it would be an invaluable reference to the developing artist who is studying the art of tattoo. The flash is all crisply classic in its execution, and would fit right in with any tattoo artist's reference library.<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Publications has a whole series of books that fit this category geared more to the mechanical side of tattooing. This volume fits in nicely to that genre and is a excellent snapshot of the sketch portfolio of the "classic" tattoo artist.

The Tattoosday Book Review - Tattoo Sketchbook: Since 1966

We like to review books occasionally here on Tattoosday and wanted to say a little bit about Jim Watson's Tattoo Sketchbook, published e...

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