TRADITIONAL PACK Spider Murphy’s & Rich Hardy

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SPIDER MURPHY’S TATTOO FLASH VOL.3

A new “core” of pieces all bearing the singular hallmark which certifies the style of the artists who work with what in terms of the Traditional style is one of the most famous creative hubs the world over.

The subjects are the beloved classics of this distinctly retro style: circus women, tigers, playing cards, gentlemen in bowler hats, spiders, felines and compositions which bring to mind the images on the advertisements for old tattoo shops.

The illustrated plates in Spider Murphy’s Tattoo Flash Vol. 3 reveal a world where the clock stopped a few centuries back, a visual container packed with ideas, inspiration, animation and graphics to dip into as if they were a font to choose to compose timeless new words.

TRADITIONAL ICONS BY RICH HARDY

“Traditional Icons by Rich Hardy” is a research tool on two fronts: on the one hand we go back to the roots of everything that is Traditional today. On the other, it is a collection of pieces by Rich Hardy, a fundamental point of reference for this style for many tattoo lovers, collectors and tattooists.

Among the hundreds of tattoos collected and drawn by Rich Hardy, it is interesting to encounter some of the characters which recur so frequently in Traditional tattoo, all the classic icons which Hardy tells us about, documenting their roots and representing them in his own work: as for instance, the well-known image of Battle Royale, or the Rock of Ages and Pharaoh’s Horses.