Nick Baxter

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JUNE 2008: Hey everybody, big news! I am relocating very soon, leaving my lifelong home state of Connecticut in July for Austin, Texas. Although this may seem like very short notice to anyone who doesn't know me, all of my clients, friends and family have been informed of this change for a while now. For everyone else, including those who may have been hoping to get tattooed at some point, the policies and procedures regarding that will remain essentially the same--only my location is changing. I will still maintain a very selective workload, responding to the inquiries that inspire me the most, and reserving priority for existing clients with projects in progress. Guest spots and convention schedule will also remain the same. So please feel free to continue to email me through this site or through tattoonow.com, and check the FAQ page in my 'thought' section for the usual miscellaneous tattoo info. More details will be posted soon about where I'll be tattooing temporarily after I get to Austin, and then regarding a private studio I will be tattooing at with friend and fellow artist Jeff Ensminger, who is moving to Austin as well, from his current home in Dallas. Check out his work at www.jeffensminger.com, and get psyched. I know I am.

So stay tuned for more info posted here or through my email newsletter. Again, everything should remain similar to how I do it now, except in Austin instead of in Connecticut. This is a completely amicable split with my current shop Transcend Tattoo, so I will still be recommending the awesome tattooers there to anyone in the CT or New England area, as well as doing guest spots there on occasion in order to keep up with my hometown clientele who can't see me in Texas.

Thank you so much to all who have supported me over the years!! I hope this will turn out to be an exciting new chapter in my life and career, but I couldn't have gotten to this point without all the great people who like my art or who've gotten tattooed.

MAY 25, 2008: I just posted four new large projects to the skin gallery, including a unique collaborative tattoo done with my coworker and friend Lou Jacque.

During my last visit to L.A. I had the opportunity to make a drawing for a really fun project called Sketch Theatre, which features time-lapse videos of artists completing a drawing of their choice. You can see my drawing come to life at the following address:

http://www.sketchtheatre.com/?page_id=157

Thanks to Lily and Nikko Hurtado for hooking me up with the opportunity I even managed to get one of my favorite songs as the soundtrack to my video. Check it out if you have a few minutes.

I recently attended another awesome Hell City convention in Columbus, OH, and had a great time. Thank you to everyone who took my painting seminar or bought a painting book, got tattooed or said hello. My apologies to the people I couldn't fit in over the weekend.

I'm still selling my instructional oil-painting booklet through mailorder to anyone who wants one. To get a copy, simply mail a $25 money order (made out to me) to:
Transcend Tattoo
906 W. Main St.
Branford CT 06405
USA.
And/or send me an email to let me know you're sending money, and please allow a few weeks for shipping.

APRIL 25, 2008: I got back from the Philadelphia tattoo convention a few days ago, where i was part of a live painting event called Visionary Primitive, and it was a blast. Thank you to everyone who came and watched or said hi or offered encouragement and critique. It was an honor to be onstage painting next to the likes of Alex Grey, Allyson Grey, Guy Aitchison, Michele Wortman, Jon Clue, Corey Kruger, and Nikko Hurtado. The painting I completed at the event, titled "Grasping," can now be seen in my 'canvas' gallery.

My "plastic" print sets are now all sold out! Thank you to everyone who bought one. I will try to get the entire written contents of the accompanying 'zine posted to the 'thought' section of this site in the next few months.

FEBRUARY 2008: Another big improvement to the website this month. The 'Pixel' gallery has been overhauled to be a place for my occasional digital fine art projects, rather than logo and graphic design, which I have gotten away from in recent years. This is part of my continuing effort to keep the site not only up to date, but relevant to my current artistic tastes, projects, and aspirations. While I don't feel that all of the new Pixel gallery content is representative of my strongest or most compelling work, it's been a fun outlet for me to dabble in over the last several years and is something I hope to continue doing more of.

JANUARY 2008: Just in time to start the new year is a huge website improvement: the "thought" section has been completely revamped and expanded for all you nerdy types' reading and learning pleasure. You can now learn much more about me, Nick Baxter, as a person, as well as more about what influences my art, tattooing and life. It will be updated more in the coming months, and hopefully much more regularly, thanks to Gabe from tattoonow's hard work behind the scenes to make it more user-friendly for me. Much of the material is presented in the spirit of education and inspiration, as an effort to show the world, through my website, a more complete and accurate picture of myself as human being, not simply as 'successful tattooer' or 'artist.' So please enjoy, learn, or lurk, and feel free to ask any questions or address any topics and issues in my forum. I will do my best to respond as time allows.

My collaborative flash set with Jeff Ensminger, which has been available through www.pulseflash.com, has been an opportunity for me to donate money to various causes that are working toward the welfare of animals, people, and the earth. Every so often, when I get enough money back from its sales, I figure out a place to send that money. Previous donations have been made to animal rights groups, but the latest donation made just this week through the nonprofit www.carbonfund.org, will end up supporting reforestation efforts throughout the world, to try to offset global warming. We also sold the completed original drawings for the flash set recently, and my half of the sale was split between 2 causes. One of them is the local environmental group CT Fund For the Environment, and the other is an organization my friend and tattoo client helps with, called Jungle Friends. This group cares for rescued primates, which includes monkeys saved from testing labs and the ‘entertainment’ industry (www.junglefriends.org).

Lastly, the F.A.Q. section of my website has been updated and revamped to reflect my evolving tattoo appointment policies and difficult scheduling situation. You can get to this part of the site by clicking on the question mark that’s in the lower left corner of every page.

Another reminder: I have a mailing list sign-up in the 'Community' section, for anyone who wants to receive occasional updates about new happenings involving my art and tattooing, including travel appearances.

Thanks for the interest and enjoy.

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