Yippee! First Newsletter!

Rowan Lee
March 19, 2025

Hi everyone!

Thanks again for subscribing! I’m excited to bring you the first installment of my monthly newsletter!

Recent Tatts ☺️

Here’s a few tatts from the past few months! I’ve really enjoyed the graywash and blue tattoos I’ve gotten to do and hope there will be more to come! I feel like I spent a lot of last year creatively pushing myself with new designs, and I’m finally seeing how just how much I’ve grown.

A ceramic shell from my flash

A custom Dragon Age piece

Painterly irises from my flash

Healed peony and plum blossoms with some fresh reworked spots

The easiest way to view my work/portfolio is still Instagram, but as our developer progresses with our website, I’d like to make a smaller gallery section there.

New Flash 🥰

I’ve been doing a fair amount of custom work lately, so I don’t have flash in my queue just yet, but I do have a sleeve concept I put together late last year to show you. You all get an early view of and chance to claim this!

I love painting bunnies and plum blossoms and had ideas of a rabbit arm band or moon sleeve for a while. I love the imagery of the rabbit in the moon, and it just makes sense that they would hop around the sky, right? It was a lot of fun painting and collage-ing this together. Since it’s a full sleeve, I estimate this would take around 10-15 hours ($800-1200), but it would be done in at least 4 different sessions, so the cost would be split up that way.

If you like any of the concepts in the sleeve but are leaning more towards a different type of sleeve or a smaller piece, fear not! I’m always down to do custom work similar to previous flash.

Promos and Sales ;)

If you’re not on Instagram or haven’t seen, I’m running 2 promotions right now!

If you’ve been tattooed by me and leave a google review mentioning my name, you’ll get $15 off your next appointment with me. Just be sure to send me a screenshot since google can sometimes hide reviews for no apparent reason.
I have a punch booklet for all clients! Every 4rth paid appointment (i.e. touch-ups and charity raffle tattoos not included) with me will be $20 off. This is retroactive for anyone’s who’s ever been tattooed by me too! The only restrictions on this are that you can’t stack discounts or sales for 1 appointment.

I’ve usually done a small flash sale in the spring too. Last year I did astrology constellations, and this year I’m thinking of my little bird and birth flower flashes. I’ll announce it in April’s newsletter, which will be quite soon actually.

Coming soon… 👀

I’ve been thinking more about florals lately— I saw these nasturtium flowers while on vacation and the leaves were so pretty 😍 I had to draw them hehe. So far I have two large pieces in the works and am planning some smaller pieces too. I’m going to Horrucks soon, so I’m going to take some flower pics for inspiration there as well.

In addition to those, I’ve been thinking about fish again and have flash sheets planned for some rare color flash, including blue ceramic fish! It’s so fun designing and tattooing blue tattoos. I’m planning on doing ceramic arthropods at some point too, but I just did a bug flash sheet so it’ll be a minute before I do more insects.

A sneaked peak 👀

Whatever I finish first, you’ll get to see all of April’s flash sheets on the first and get an early chance to claim designs! I’m planning on 2-3 sheets per month, but this will vary as inspiration and art block come and go as well as with how hectic things get.

That’s all for now folks!

Thanks for reading and catching up on the Basil Teeth News! As always, if you have questions or inquiries you can reach me at [email protected]. See you around!

💟 Rowan