Vincent the Fish Bat

My custom plushform for the show at OhNo!Doom Gallery.  Opens November 19th! More info in the postcard below.

OhNo!Doom

The Watchers

"The Watchers"
My drawing for the Devils and Demons show at UFA Gallery. 

Tee Shirt Party at the Cotton Candy Machine!

Tee Shirt Party!

A one night event at the Cotton Candy Machine featuring my tee shirts and prints! 

Friday, November 18th

7 - 11 PM

The Cotton Candy Machine

 235 South 1st Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.thecottoncandymachine.com

More info posted here! 

Devils and Demons at UFA Gallery

I have a drawing in this awesome Halloween show!

Devils and Demons
Opens Saturday Oct 29th at 7pm

Urban Folk Art Gallery
99-101 Smith St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
www.urbanfolkart.com

Featuring over 25 artists ranging from painters, graffiti artists, comic book makers, printmakers, toy makers, tattooers, photographers and so on. This will be a great one to start the Halloween weekend! with...

Halloween Tattoos

$31 Halloween Tattoos 

From me, the apprentice, the whole month of October!

Halloween is my favorite holiday.  The weather is perfect and there are skulls and pumpkins on everything.  I buy all my socks around Halloween for this very reason. 

In the spirit of the high holidays and in the name of getting more skin time, I am doing a Halloween special!  You can get any of the designs above for $31, tattooed by me (the apprentice) at Brooklyn Tattoo.  This special is for the whole month of October 2011!  Just to be clear, no one else at Brooklyn Tattoo is offering this special.  Its for the whole month, not just October 31st. 

Please keep in mind that I am still an apprentice.  I may not be able to put the tattoo where you want it.  Its always best to come down to the shop and make an appointment!  

You can see some of the tattoos I've done on Flickr.

Let's get spooky!

How to get a tattoo by me:

Its always best to come down to the shop to make an appointment. I need to see where it's going and what your skin looks like.

If it's too far for you, you can email me (sara.antoinette(at)gmail.com) or call the shop and we will try and work it out.

I am tattooing at Brooklyn Tattoo
99 Smith Street (at Atlantic)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718 643 1610
www.brooklyntattoo.com
Close to the A,C,G,F,4,5 subway lines

As of right now, I am there Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.  If you plan on coming down, please call ahead to make sure I am there.

You can also check out some more of my apprentice flash on Flickr. I try to upload a new sheet every two weeks. 

Skelecore at New York Comic Con

 I will be featured at the Plastic City Booth #676 on Sunday at New York Comic Con!

I'll have all of my tee shirts, comics, prints and minis for sale, some originals and customs. Maybe even a few secret surprises! I will be at the booth all day and I will sign anything you want.

Skelecore by Sara Antoinette Martin at New York Comic Con
Sunday, October 16th. 10 AM to 5PM
At the Jacob Javitz Center in New York City
Booth 676 in the Cultyard

More info on NYCC: http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/

See you there!!

Skelecore at The Brooklyn Night Bazaar!

I will be vending at the Brooklyn Night Bazaar at The Dekalb Market Sunday Oct 9th, 5pm - Midnight!

 

I will be sharing a booth with my buddy, Dollsville NYC!
There is a BEER GARDEN, food vendors, bands and crazy light sculptures. Sound like a wild time right? Come on down and check out all my tee shirts and other wares.

More Info: http://bkbazaar.com/
When: Sunday October 9th from 5:00 PM until Midnight.
Where: Dekalb Market @ 138 Willoughby Street, Brooklyn

An outdoor market with retrofitted cargo containers in the heart of Brooklyn between Fort Greene, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights and Clinton Hill. The Bazaar is a stone’s throw from the B, D, N, Q, R, 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, G, and F trains, numerous bus routes and bike lanes. Transportation Alternatives will be providing free valet bike parking.

New Tee Shirt Pictures!

Check em out!
You can purchase them directly from me right here: Skelecore!

 

 

  

 

Sketch Theatre

While at this year's San Diego Comic Con, I got to do a drawing for Sketch Theatre.  Three little rose girls set to Django Reinhardt.

You can check out the video here: Sara Antoinette Martin on Sketch Theatre 

Skelecore Tee Shirts Available Online!

My new tee shirts are available online at www.skelecore.com!

 

 

Also check out my new Mini Prints and Tote Bags!

Renegade Craft Fair Info and Preview!

Renegade Craft Fair is this weekend! I will be located at Booth 220, just up the path from the Union and Bayard entrance.

Renegade Craft Fair is on June 11th and 12th in McCarren Park, Brooklyn. 11 AM - 7 PM.

I will have lots of prints, new mini prints, new stickers, new tote bags and new TEE SHIRTS!!!

Also, I will be able to take VISA, MASTERCARD, and AMEX!

Here's some preview pictures!

Skelecore Tee Shirt Preview

Introducing the Skelecore new line of tee shirts!

Dalhias -  Unisex Tee in Asphalt, Size XS-XL - Womens Racerback Tank in Black, Size S-XL  

Eye Hand - Unisex Tee in Green Gray, Size XS-XL - Womens Racerback Tank in Black, Size S-XL 

Skull Trinkets - Unisex Tee in Black, Size XS-XL - Womens Scoop Neck in Black, Size S-XL 

Skelecore - Unisex Tee in Black and Light Blue, Size XS-XL - Womens Scoop Neck in Black, Size S-XL

I'm so excited about my line of Skelecore tee shirts.  All shirts are printed on American Apparel with a special waterbased discharge printing so the graphics are super soft.

I will be releasing these at my booth (#131 near the corner of Union and Bayard) at Renegade Craft Fair June 11th and 12th in McCarren Park.  I will have them available online on June 14th.

Tote Bags!

Just got my new tote bags in!
The Eel Skull Tote, for your everyday bag needs.  Only $10

These will be available at my booth at Renegade Craft Fair (June 11th and 12th in McCarren Park, Brooklyn) I will also have these available on my webstore soon. Probably after the fair.

Renegade Craft Fair 2011!

I will be vending at the Renegade Craft Fair Brooklyn again!
It will be held in McCarren Park on June 11 +12, 2011, from 11am – 7pm each day.
Booth 220.

I will be launching a small line of tee shirts.  More info on that coming soon too!

The Renegade Craft Fair

ALCHEMICALLY YOURS at Obervatory

ALCHEMICALLY YOURS, an alchemy-themed group art show curated by Pam Grossman!
Opening May 7th at Observatory in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
I have two paintings in this show.  Also, I love Observatory.  They have an amazing lecture series.

The show's opening party will be on Saturday, May 7th from 7-10pm, and the show will be on view through Sunday, June 12th, 2011.

Pam is awesome.  Check out her blog: Phantasmaphile

Hendricks Gin Interview

Hendricks published an interview on their blog with me to coincide with the box give-away.  You can read the transcript below or check it out here: The Unusual Times


"A Conversation With Sara Antoinette Martin"
 Posted March 8th
http://unusualtimes.net

You’re far more than a painter. Your portfolio spans tattooing, toy making and clothing design. What is your favorite medium?
I’m really excited about tattooing.  I’ve only tattooed myself so far, but i think that once I really get going, its going to be one of my favorite mediums. Other then that, painting is definitely my favorite medium.  Its the least restrictive, creatively.
What made you jump into tattooing?
Tattooing was something that I had always thought about, but didn’t feel confident enough in my drawing until the past few years.  In hindsight, I realized how dumb that was to wait this long.  Anyway, right out of school, I got a job at Kidrobot as a product photographer.  Three years later I quit to try and be a full time illustrator.  A month later the recession happened and I started working for the artist Tara McPherson and picking up some freelance graphic disease.  I was finding it really difficult  to make a living as an illustrator and I was getting way more of a response from my fine art paintings.  I needed to figure out something that I could do while still pursuing fine art.  My artwork was already heavily influenced by tattoo are and I felt like both mediums would enhance and relate to each other.  It took me about a year to find an apprenticeship after I had made the decision to do it.

Your work incorporates a variety of cultural influence—lotus flowers, chupacabras, mermaids. Where do you draw this imagery from?
Everywhere.  Especially decorative and folk arts.  I think its really interesting how an outsider artist, such as Henry Darger, or early civilization artwork, like byzantine religious icons and illuminated manuscripts, interpreted the world and rendered the human form.
I’ve always had a love for cryptozoology and monsters.  There is so much weird and mysterious stuff out there in the world.  I’m also really interested in patterns found in nature, the golden ratio and the natural order and engineering of the world.  How jellyfish and coral are made of individual cellular organisms and the mathematical patterns in flowers, and, really, every living thing.
It all comes down to the almost spirituality  you can find in mathematics of the physical world.  I’m really fascinated with the old alchemists and how they turned chemistry, physics and astrology into a subversive and occult philosophy.  Its been science vs organized religion since the beginning of time.  I like to draw my own theories and reflection on my environment with out being so scientific about it.  Essentially, its what I love about painting.  I can illustrate the world as it exists in my head without being literal or factual about it.  I think of it as ’science fiction theory’.

How did you come up with your idea for your Hendrick’s box?
I was really into drawing gypsies that week.

Do you consider yourself a curious artist? And how does it effect your work?
Definitely.  I love learning new things and collecting new influences.

Is there particular subject matter that fascinates you?
Anything occult!

If you weren’t an artist what vocation would you pursue?
I honestly do not think I could not exist if I wasn’t doing something creative.  If this whole art thing didn’t work out, my plan C was to maybe get a grad degree in industrial design.  My dad would of loved that.

You’re really invested in the process of creating your work. Tell us about it.
I start with a sketch.  Sometimes I’ll get people to pose for me and take reference photos.  I scan in a finished drawing and break apart the layers that I will paint separately.  I transfer the drawing usually with xerox transfers. Then I paint the composition in separate parts on paper and collage them back together, essentially breaking down the composition and building it back up again.  I add patterns and embellishment and seal the whole thing in layers of glossy varnish.

And last but by no means least, what’s your favorite cocktail?
Hendricks Gin martini with a twist!

Sad Space Cats from Venus

I made a Custom 40 oz for a show at MF Gallery.
I'm so behind in blog posts... the 40oz show opened last month and my piece sold. Yeah!
When you shake it all the green/gold inside swirls around.

You can check out full turn-around shots on Flickr!

Hendricks Gypsy Box

Hendricks Gin asked me to 'curate-a-box' for an upcoming series of contests.
Alkyd, acrylic, and paper on a pine wood box.

You can win my box here: The Unusual Times

More pictures of it on Flickr!

Eel Skull Serigraph

Just in time for holiday shopping! My Eel skull drawing is now available as an oversized silk screened print!

19.5" x 26" on light green archival drawing paper.
Limited edition of 30.
Signed and numbered.

Silk screened them myself and only $25 bones!

Get them on Skelecore while you still can!

Ladies, Ladies! Art Show

Ladies, Ladies! Art Show
Featureing the art of 50 women tattooers

Tattoo Culture
129a Roebling St
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Opening reception: Dec 10th, 2010 7-11 PM

I will have a painting in a show of lady tattooers! How cool is THAT.