Hyperspace Studios Blog

September 23, 2016

Huge Update in the Guy Aitchison Tattoo Galleries!

It's been a while since I've had the chance to go through my tattoo photos and prep them for my online galleries. Too long, in fact... so when our friend Durb Morrison asked me to do an interview for ...

September 14, 2016

More New Prints... Plus The Next Biomech Contest!

We are pretty excited about our new printer, after last month's limited run produced such great color results. So we have added a few more classic Aitchison images to the print catalog in a variety of...

September 2, 2016

New Fine Art Prints Available Now!

For many years Michele and I have carried fine art giclee prints of some of our favorite paintings. This year, though, we finally decided to take the plunge and purchase our own large format fine art ...

November 29, 2015

Reinvent Yourself, A Photoshop Tutorial Specifically For Tattooists!

For the past two decades of my tattoo career, I've been using Adobe Photoshop as an essential part of my workflow in everything from design compositing to portfolio page layout. It's been such an impo...

November 27, 2015

Learn the Fundamentals of Painting Classic Tattoo Flash!

Back in the days of my apprenticeship, one of the first things I was asked to do was draw flash- twenty full pages of it before I would be allowed to pick up a machine. Flash drawing was a totally new...

November 25, 2015

An Innovative Sketchbook Idea For Tattooists!

For many years I've had the practice of taking photos of my clients' blank body parts, printing the photos at low contrast, and then doing my sketching directly on these photos. It's a great way to ge...

October 28, 2015

Sketched Out, A Book Of Sketches By Your Favorite Artists!

We're always psyched to add a new anthology book to our catalog, and we can count on Memento Publishing to deliver- they've consistently put out some of the most compelling books available in the tatt...

May 11, 2015

The Much-Anticipated Force In The Flesh 2!

OK, so there are a lot of Star Wars nerds in the tattoo industry. Don't ask me how or why that happens to be the case, but I'm personally guilty of being one of them, having ridden my bike countless t...

April 15, 2015

Wacom Weekend Coming Right Up... And New Aitchison Painting on eBay!

With our Wacom Weekend digital workshop coming up in only a few weeks, Russ Abbott and I are busy preparing the material for our classes that we'll be teaching there. This is a big deal for us, with i...

March 2, 2015

March Special at Tattoo Education!

We are psyched at the way our new website turned out, and wanted to celebrate with a March special. For any tattoo professionals who order $250 or more from our catalog this month we'll send you a fre...

February 13, 2015

Tattoo Prodigies 2!

Tattoo Prodigies 2 has been 2 years in the making, and it's finally here! This is a high quality, hardbound coffee table book that is 10 inches wide by 13 inches tall and about 2 inches thick. This bo...

December 15, 2014

Michele's New Hand-Retouched Metal Prints

Happy Holidays, As we close 2014 with a celebration of the season and welcome the New Year I thought it would be a good time to offer some of my favorite recent paintings to add to your art collection...

December 9, 2014

New Ask Guy Critique Column, Plus A Few Great last-Minute Gifts!

So another edition of my Ask Guy column has hit the newsstands, this time another one centered around a critique of another artist's work. Art critiques have been a standard part of artists' education...

December 8, 2014

Vibrant New Art Print From Guy, Plus Major Gallery Update!

When I completed my recent painting Radiant Flux , I had a lot of positive feedback, with a number of people asking me for prints. So it's finally been photographed properly and archival fine art canv...

November 9, 2014

New Skeletal Anthology Book, Plus Another Painting On eBay!

We've enjoyed all the great anthology books that have been released in the past few years by publishers such as Memento Publishing and Out Of Step Books, featuring work from diverse selections of arti...

September 22, 2014

Feathers Of Inspiration, An Epic New Art Book Set!

Over the past few years, Jinxi Caddell of Out Of Step Books has assembled a number of incredible tattoo art anthology books, most of which we carry at the Hyperspace Studios online store . These inclu...

July 18, 2014

New Ask Guy Now in the Newstands... Plus Another Organica Painting Listed at eBay!

For my monthly Ask Guy column in Tattoo Magazine , I've gotten a great variety of questions ranging from artistic to professional to healing concerns, and I've been enjoying the diversity of conversat...

July 9, 2014

Guy Aitchison Now Listing Original Paintings on eBay!

Now that I've been getting back in front of the easel and am cranking out some new paintings , I thought it might be time to go through some of my favorite unsold pieces and list a few of them on eBay...

May 29, 2014

Great New Oil Painting DVD By Ian McKown, Available Now!

I've always encouraged tattooists to try working in other artistic mediums, particularly in oil or acrylic paint , because developing a stronger and more well-rounded set of art skills always translat...

May 23, 2014

New Hyperspace Studios Video And Michele Wortman Card Set

Have you seen the video that Guy and I put together recently? In it we discuss our art, what we do, what motivates us and the things we hope to accomplish. This includes a little about our artistic st...

May 19, 2014

Latest Ask Guy Column Now On Newsstands, Plus Gallery Update!

It's been a while since I've had a chance to update my galleries of paintings and tattoos... so you'll be happy to know that we've just added a variety of new pieces to both the New Tattoos and New Pa...

April 19, 2014

Hot Off The Presses- Two New Guy Aitchison Prints

It's been a while since I've added new art prints to our catalog, so I'm excited to announce these two new medium-sized affordable giclee prints, based on two paintings that I completed for themed art...

April 17, 2014

Guy Aitchison's Technique DVD

For a decade and a half now I’ve been perfecting my Reinventing The Tattoo curriculum, which teaches some of the fundamentals of artistic design in a way that can be applied toward making your t...

April 2, 2014

What About My Sore, Tired Back?

Over the course of 25 years of tattooing I've encountered my physical limits a few times; I've had my back lock up on me, along with some pretty frightening hand and wrist issues that I could only res...