Increaseing popularity.

January 7, 2011
Urban Edge has been open for a year now nearly and our popularity is increasing. The work of the Artists Rob, Paul and Mark is steadily drawing more and more clientele to the shop. Apart from a few upsets during the year mainly jealous or envious individuals trying to put a dampners on our focus: we aint stopping studying our Art for nothing. We are enjoying our Art so much that the results showing on the skin. With Paul Russell taking on the ever increaseing popularity of 'tribal' and black work, Rob White covering all manner of designs with black and grey, with most of the designs custom drawn from his own brain, and Mark Chaldecott mainly working jap colour work, Celtic and basically anything that comes his way.
Although we can't forget the shop admin Fern. Without Fern helping the Artists with their admin and wot not well oiled cogs would not be so well oiled. Recently Rob has teamed up with Neil (our graphics designer) to promote the 'Serious Signs' part of Urban Edge. Serious Signs will put anything or any funky designs on your shop windows, cars, work vans etc, in a way that no other sign writing company does. His designs are original one offs. And originality and one off designs is where Urban Edge is different. We take YOUR ideas straight from your heads and either stick em on your skin or on your windows.
 

A question of ART.

June 27, 2010

According to the Royal Academy of Arts there are three Art forms; Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Recently they have introduced Photography as a fourth. Now we all know that Tattooing is an Art form; and the reason (or most probably the reason) why the R.A doesn't see it as such is that tattooing has not yet been introduced in the halls of the R.A. It has not been observed there; at all.
It's a good point because if tattooing IS an Art form (and we know that it is) then to diverse to it ...


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Portraits.

June 21, 2010


'Cameron'



Everybody knows that Portraits aint easy to produce in any medium. The Urban Edge team of Artists have drawn them, painted them, caricatured them in some form or another for years. But putting them on skin is a different ball game that we all realise. Although we realise this; we're prepared to flow with it if that's what people want from us. We'll perform our best in this category of tattooing, if we three think that we can not re-produce the said portrait then we won't do it.
The on...


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