Video Gallery of Tattoos

styles i love to tattoo:

• Illustrative Realism

• Fine Line

• Ornamental

• Geometric

• Black and Grey

• Stipple Shading

• Blackwork

• Blast Overs

subjects I love to tattoo:

• Botanical, Flora x Fauna

• Animals x Insects

• Patterns x Geometry

• Surreal, Abstract, and Psychedelic themes

• ‘Girl Faces’

• Landscapes

• Selective Cover Up Transformations

• Ancestry related

PLEASE READ MY F.A.Q.

Here is the LINK

This is an essential on-boarding step; it outlines so many questions and answers, and explanation of processes. It saves me so much time and energy and I think you should read it before you submit a proposal because it will clear up so much of the most fundamental questions of pricing, deposits, policies, drawing schedule, preferences, and more. I add to it all the time.

get on the waitlist

I work one person at a time, semi-private studio style. I am currently working in the Art Gallery of Utopia Tattoo, where I work with another female artist that specializes in color tattoos, but we are appointment-only; closed to walk-ins and foot traffic.

Use the form to get on my waitlist, so I can contact you as soon as I have availability.

Taking Appointments @ Utopia Tattoo Shop, 885 Lincoln Way, Auburn, CA

ABOUT ME:

My name is Ashely.

I graduated Humboldt State University in 2011 with a BA in Studio Art, with an emphasis on painting. Throughout my life, I also studied Multimedia, Animation, and Graphic Design. I studied with professional artists abroad to further refine my work in painting and visionary art, working with various healing paths, before I was handed a tattoo machine and taught some basics in a bungalo in Venice Beach. ‘Self-taught’ with the help and inspiration of tattooer friends, I sought to work in a tattoo shop to further improve my skills, and have stayed with that path since 2017.

Now I am a professional tattoo artist in the foothills between Sacramento and Tahoe, California.

Although I started as a colorful oil painter, through tattooing I have come to find that I enjoy a simplified & grounded approach to art making, influenced by my drawing abilities, love of pattern and flow, & my design background. Additionally, the characteristic structure of tattooing as a medium itself, its own implicit imperfections and aging processes, housed in the fleshy canvas over time… are also major influences into how I’ve come to work in the styles that I do.

The people who gravitate toward my work are generally searching for something design-wise that is on a spectrum ranging between bold shapes and delicate elegant marks, good spacing, and flow. Whether that is purely geometric, ornamental, illustrative or a combination, I aim to achieve a sort of balance between fullness and emptiness, solid shapes and negative (skin) spaces, bold and elegant. There is a lot of detail, and yet we also embrace minimalism.

I also have a studio in Colfax, California where I can gather, draw, paint, and create artwork related to my personal interests and my ancestral heritage, where right now I am exploring concepts of mixed race identity, Native American heritage, and decolonization.

“Faelien” is a word I made up. It is a combination of Fae (as in Fairy) and Alien (as in extra terrestrial?) It’s sort of a summary of how I often feel; an outsider to society and the overculture, but not alien to the earth.

I am grateful for your interest in having me permanently ink your body forever (hopefully), and appreciate that you would consider me. Something I have found over the past several years of tattooing is that the best work comes when having a lot of creative freedom to interpret your ideas, or at the very least, you having a very loose grasp on what it needs to be in order to let it become better than you imagined.

I am very intuitive, and highly visual. It’s like a movie inside my head. Sometimes when you’re talking I will just see things and get ideas. Utilize this to your advantage. My little faelien antennae beams have been fine tuned for pituitary imaginings.

FAELIEN.INK

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