Mountain Brewer’s Festival, the largest Beer festival in the Mountain West, attracting over 100 breweries and over 8,000 attendees was my first foray into tattoo art. The gals in our Barley’s Angels chapter, festival neophytes, were excited to attend their first major beer event. Barley’s Angels is an international lady’s organization. We hold educational socials to educate women about craft beer and hence bring more women into the beer drinking sisterhood. Filled with anticipation, we showed up, home brew and airbrush in tow. With so much great beer in one location, Amber’s Wicked Ale, did not get much attention, but our airbrush tattoos were a hit. We sprayed, branded, and delighted the masses.
Tattoos are most definitely en-vogue. To try to explain why, seems an impossible task. Why do humans do what they do and love what they love? While I am sure there must be some study that attempts to explain human behavior, when it comes to tattoos, the bottom line is that an awful lot of humans now sport one. I recently read a statistic that 25% of the population has a tattoo and the more I look around the more convinced I become, it’s got to be higher than that.
Having experienced a measure of success with our tattoo spray gun, the angels suggested I look into henna. A quick look was all it took to fall in love with it. My eyes were opened to a new world made up of beautiful lines, shapes, and squiggles.
A blending of two passions.
Beer is already the most popular drink in the world. It’s a recent passion and since it’s also my business, it touches almost every facet of my life. Since I also live and breathe art, it only made sense to begin to blend them both. The result is “Henna Hops”, the first in a line of beer inspired paintings with roots in tattoo art. I look forward to continuing to explore and develop this magical blend and sharing the wonders I discover.
Alexandra
hops paintings
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