Are you looking for a free tattoo art gallery? Why? Are you about to get a new tattoo? Are you going to look for a free tattoo artist also? No?! Well if you’re going to pay good money for a tattoo artist, why wouldn’t you want to pay money for a good tattoo design?

A free tattoo art gallery is bound to give you outdated and generic looking designs. You’re not going to find many people who are going to give away good art work unless it’s been around for awhile. If you want an outdated, cookie cutter tattoo, then a free tattoo art gallery is where you want to look.

Do you know the type of tattoo you want inked? Do you know where on your body you want the tattoo? Armed with that information, you can now start looking for your tattoo design. If you want a unique tattoo design, you will need to browse through online tattoo galleries that have superior quality designs. The best way to get a unique tattoo is to design your own tattoo.

Membership tattoo galleries allow you unlimited access to tattoo designs you can print anytime. You can find a couple different designs, print them out and work the different ones together to make your unique tattoo design. A free tattoo art gallery would give you designs that look like they were made on your computer for a coloring book. Some free tattoo designs were never meant to be used as tattoos. It is hard to ink a tattoo from a sub standard design.

A tattoo from a free tattoo art gallery would not be unique. When you get a tattoo, you have a story to tell. Since everyone is different, your designs should be different. A tattoo is an expression of ourselves. If you get the same tattoo as someone you see walking down the street, you are saying that the two of you are alike and expressing the same thing. I don’t think that’s true.

Don’t end up with tattoo regret. Find a unique design that speaks to you. Take your time. If you’re looking in the right place, you will find something that you will feel is uniquely you. You just have to be in the right place.

By Tatum Tyler

“Having someone in the same boat helps get you there faster.”

Community: a group of people joining together and having the same interests, work etc. in common. Artists with similar goals and commitment for making something happen and sharing with the group. Where all members put their time and expertise into benefiting the groups success. A co-op has committees assigned for the variety of tasks necessary to run a successful gallery. From member selection, monthly shows, annual tours to organizing all the events for the year… this cannot be done without community participation.

• Artist Members: it’s always great inspiration to talk with other artists about what they are doing, how they do it – their process, where they go – other galleries or groups, who they talk to – reps or journalists.

• Group Shows: where the membership comes together in working on a similar theme… showing their same and different perspectives and based on the medium they use. A theme can bring a community together in a different way.

• Local Public: they frequent the gallery and come to openings, spreading the reach of possible buyers of art.

• Notices of Art Call-for-Entry Opportunities: most artists belong to other mailing lists and groups, they have access to notices of multiple calls-for-entry for a wide variety of Open Calls… AND they pass it along to the group.

• Group Encouragement: where people want everyone to do and feel good about their artwork… to get noticed and expand opportunities and helpful evaluations of progress.

For me, being a part of a co-0p gallery and community art groups has created moments for me to remember when I participated in hanging new work in the gallery, sitting at a table with other artists for hours applying labels to postcards for a mail-out, or creating a brochure for a group event… knowing what I’m doing is making a difference and that the conversation and friendships that are being created are irreplaceable.

Have you thought about joining a community in your area or starting one? The next benefit I’ll talk about is the Running a Business aspect of the co-op gallery.

By Karrie Ross