Safety gets fashionable with face masks by local tattoo artists

The Path & District Arts Council and VISAC Gallery have partnered to create trendy face masks that function designs by a few of your favorite West Kootenay tattoo artists, together with Rossland artist Alex Moon and 16-year-old pupil Sasha Leithead.

Leithead received the youth masks design contest.

“My design options an octopus in a free reference to a Chinese language conventional tattoo model,” Leithead explains.

“After I’m doing pen and ink an octopus appears to be my default, I really like the intricacy and stream of them.”

The 4 designs had been commissioned, together with the winner of the youth masks design contest. Every of the 4 designs has one thing for everybody to understand.

“Throughout this time when entry to the humanities has turn out to be restricted, we needed to discover a artistic option to pay and promote native artists whereas providing one thing individuals may take pleasure in and truly use,” mentioned Nadine Tremblay, TDAC Govt Director.

“I can’t wait to strut these lovely artworks after I go about city subsequent.”

Rossland artist Alex Moon, whose tattoos, illustrations, and work are impressed by fantasy, myths, psychedelics, visionary experiences, magic, science fiction and the pure world, created a butterfly nestled in flowers for her design “Dreamer”.

Josh Gatten, proprietor and artist at Divine Alchemy Tattoos in Nelson, created an intricate black and white design with pops of color. Josh has been creating tattoos for over seventeen years.

Sylvie le Sylvie designed a good looking hovering chook with a background of flowers for his or her face masks.

Sylvie is a tattoo artist primarily based at Unusual Society Tattoos in Nelson and has been tattooing full-time for fourteen years.

For the fourth masks, a name was put out to 12-18 yr olds to create a digitally designed tattoo-style masks.

Leithead’s vibrant octopus-themed design actually stood out.

“I’ve at all times beloved doing artwork, however solely within the final three years have I begun to take it extra critically.”

“Sooner or later, I aspire to turn out to be a author and illustrate my very own books.” 

The Kootenay Artwork Masks: Tattoo Assortment intention to present trendy patrons a option to assist the humanities, whereas defending themselves and others. — Submitted photograph

All masks are $15 for one, or get one in all every of the 4 designs for under $50. Masks can be found at The Doorway in Path and Kootenay Gateway in Rossland, or to order by telephone at 250-368-9669 to select up. Or, purchase on-line at thebailey.ca for $15, plus a $3 flat mailing price for every order, by clicking on the “Merchandise” menu merchandise on the prime of the web page.”

Masks orders made by telephone could also be picked up at The Bailey Theatre throughout common field workplace hours, Monday to Friday between 12 midday till 4 pm. Ring the buzzer to the left of our Cedar Road entrance to get into the constructing.

For extra data on what the Path & District Arts Council has deliberate go to their new web site at trail-arts.com. For what’s taking place on the VISAC Gallery go to visacgallery.com.