‘Evening lads of the village’

A wierd expression I know, but one me and my old mate Mark were greeted with by the landlord of the Greyhound one night years ago… sorry I digress…

Village life is a beautiful thing. Old fashioned, quant, bordering on the senile and demented! But so much better than living in some nondescript city where no-one talks to each other and everyone treats their neighbour with manic suspicion.

Anyway, the last May Bank Holiday in the Sinner Village, we had our annual May Fayre. The ladies of the WI go baking mad, filling their stall with awesome cakes, buns and biscuits. There’s plants for sale, ropey ceramics, grubby car boot tat, bouncy castles and more. The very modern lady vicar turns out to pour tea in the refreshment tent, there’s tombolas, fishing for ducks, maypole dancing, a May Queen, the absolute lot! And along with this they have competitions for everything from flower arranging to poetry to wine making. One of the categories is for painting – so I thought ‘Why Not?’ I grabbed a few off the studio walls, paid a quid an entry and left the lady taking the entries saying ‘ooh aren’t they all different!’

Well I like to be diverse you see and paint all kinds of stuff – I entered an artists pallette with a bulldog on it, a budha, a heart with wings, a flaming skull in blue and a Bob Ross inspired mountain landscape. (You’ve gotta love a bit of Bob Ross!)

So me, Mrs Sinner and our little Sinnerettes toddle off to the May Fayre and have a jolly old time. Eating cake, hooking ducks, trying to win a coconut (poor little Sinner boy is a lousy shot) and trying to shelter when the rain pours down as it usually does on a Bank Holiday! Then Mrs Sinner checks out the competition gallery and guess what… I’d only got 2nd for the blue flaming skull and 3rd for the mountain landscape! I was pretty chuffed and not too bothered that I’d been beaten by a pretty average windmill scene!

Picking up the rosettes (yes rosettes, I told you this was village life!) from the visiting vicar, he asked me which painting had got the 2nd place and didn’t bat an eyelid when I told him it was a blue flaming skull!

So there you go – tattooists are artists too

Rock ‘n’ Roll!

2nd Place for the Flaming blue skull

3rd Place for the mountain landscape

St George & Dragon - Gouache - A4 - framed - £60 (plus p+p)

St. Georges Day

Last saturday 24th March, was St. Georges Day in England. Here in sunny Sinnerville it was celebrated in the town with a festival. The high street was closed off and lined with stalls from local businesses, clubs and charities. Over 4000 people turned up on a gorgeous sunny day and had a great time! Blimey, even the Queen turned up! Us Sinners had a stand showing off our artwork and tattoos, all related to England and St. George.

We Brits are a patriotic bunch and here at the studio we do loads of tattoos of St. George and the dragon, bulldogs, Britannia and so on. And we’re proud to do them too. They can be really challenging and time consuming and always pretty spectacular.

We’re looking forward to the World Cup in a few weeks and doing loads more England badges and stuff. Come on boys!!

Check out some art – all for sale.

Bulldog artists pallette - acrylic - £40 (plus p+p)

Bulldog with flag artists pallette - acrylic - £40 (plus p+p)

Skull artists pallette - acrylic - £40 (plus p+p)

If you’re interested in buying anything drop us an email at info@sevensinstattoo.com