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#17 Nov/Dec 2009

Our crazy Wizards of Oz (& NZ) edition.

Where we leave the cold bleak shores of the United Kingdom to explore the talent way Down under

Tattooists Body o’Leary & Jan Moat (UK)  plus Hong Kongs Julia Seizure

Plus a look at the fabulouse London Tattoo Convention

Airbrush Artists: Dan Power, Maggie Llittlewood, Wayne Harrison, Brian Greig

Find out where Simon Weirdo Watts has been since leaving the UK scene

Check out pinstripers Chaz Allen and Jay Bryant

Low Brow Artists in this edition are

Joey Finz (USA) and Micky Hora (Aus) Plus the quirky art of ‘Macca’

Back on home turf, we take a spin around Stu Forsters Sin City Van

Find out what went on at Simon Murrays Summer Sizzler with Nub

And launch our new Tiki section “Tiki Talk” with Simon Blackwood

Book & DVD Reviews cover everything from Burlesque, China Tattoos

Derren Browsn Portraits, and a great Custom Cash DVD

Regular features Stu.Artr CD Reviews, PSEye, Paint Bench and our Kustom

Kulture and lifestyle series will be sure to impress

Competitions include

Win a Fat Punk Skate Deck and a Paasche VJR Airbrush

Closing dates are 20th December so get your mits on a copy here !

Well, all our customers who are on our updates mailing list were notified last weekend of the start of our Summer Sale and this has caused a bit of a “feeding frenzy” despite the hot weather, or maybe it is just too hot to go outside for fear of melting :-)

One or two items have already sold out in the Summer Sale but there are still many more fabulous bargains on popular items available so if you haven’t already had a look the direct link to the Artists UK Summer Sale is here.

If it gets any hotter we’ll have to start wrapping everything in asbestos :-)

New blog launched for P&KG

P&KG have just uploaded a new Kustom Blog here which they hope you will find interesting and informative.  They will be updating this on a regular basis with interesting You Tube clips, events, happenings and advance information on forthcoming editions of the magazine so if you are interested in pinstriping etc you might want to check it out.

A puzzling best-seller

With all the vast panorama of art prints for sale on our ecommerce website at Artists UK it is surprising that one of our best sellers this Christmas so far has been MC Escher jigsaw puzzles .  Why anyone would want their MC Escher picture in lots of tiny bits rather than in one piece is a bit of a puzzle in itself.  It makes you wonder doesn’t it.  If we tore up all the Limited Edition prints and posters into small pieces before we sent them out would they sell better?   :-)

A bit more snazzy !

Over the years at Artists UK we have improved our ecommerce software for www.artistsuk.co.uk several times to give our customers a better shopping experience.  We’ve made the site work faster, smoother and made it more logically organised.  It has a powerful SEARCH facility and there are buttons all over the place allowing customers to contact us by email if they have questions.  We then built up this information site with a brand new logo designed by the excellent team at Farbweiss Media in Germany who also designed the website for us.  Somehow along the way we never got round to updating the original Artists UK logo and we realised for some time how static and dated it was looking, especially compared to the Artists UK DotNet logo so we’ve finally gopt round to vamping it up into a more dynamic modern version.  We hope you like it.  You can see it here.