My hands have served me well during my life, but it seems that tattooing for 18 years was more of an abuse than I thought. It has only been in the past few weeks that my hands have been losing their effectiveness while holding a tattoo machine.
Sometimes i wake up and both my arms are dead or tingle for a while. Sometimes it is a dull pain up my arms. I will have to stop tattooing and get some other line of work so I can continue to create art with a pencil.
One day my hand just wouldn't work. I was tattooing and I had to stop. The machine was falling out of my hand. Im sure all you pencil artists out there, or painters can relate to the fear I have at this moment. Will i be able to create art???
So I am considering different avenues
and I want them to be fun!
*Dog walking
*mural painting
*buying junk and fixing it up making art from junk
*learning more multimedia skills
*teaching drawing
Any ideas??? let me know