WET PAINT PROJECT
WET PAINT PROJECT
Once again, Chris Dingwell will be bringing The Wet Paint Project back to Hell City! The tattoo world’s finest and most exciting artists will be creating their work LIVE before your very eyes at this year's Hell City Tattoo Festival! Artists from around the country, will be working on their creations all weekend long. This year we are expanding The Wet Paint Project into its own entire room in order to include more artists in this incredible LIVE painting experience!
The Wet Paint Project Artists will be fueling each others imaginations and sparking their creative flames. Come witness the artistic process in action all weekend long! You might even be able to buy the artwork whose birth you’ve witnessed at Hell City! With this years unbeatable line-up of artists, there won’t be a dull moment on the WET PAINT PROJECT all weekend long!
Presented by @hell_city & @chrisdingwell🔥
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Meet The Organizer: Chris Dingwell
I started tattooing in 1994 after finishing a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Ohio State University. My painting and sculptural work are a big influence on my tattooing. I translate my painting into my tattoos. I try to translate the movement of the human body into the my designs. Also, with a background in sculpture, I adapt the concepts of shaping a piece of pottery to tattooing a human body. My knowledge of figurative sculpture helps convert images to the contours of arms, legs, backs and other parts of the body. All my work is original art customized to each client.
ABOUT MY PAINTING – My work is about the flavor of memory. These images are collaged together from found photographs of random people; strangers to me. They are other people's memories which I cut up, distort and re-assemble. I am not interested in describing these memories, but in extracting the essence of those memories from the actual details of the people, places, and times involved. It is not the memories themselves, but the fleeting and fragmentary feeling of memory: the flavor of it that filters through.
Email Chris: chris@chrisdingwelltattoo.com
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2026 PHOENIX WET PAINTERS
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2026 COLUMBUS WET PAINTERS
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Paint will splatter, messes will be made, mistakes scratched out and painted over, accidents will happen, jokes will be told, drinks will be spilled; in short, artistic genius will unfold RIGHT BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES!
Also a “Best Wet Painter” HELL CITY AWARD TO BE GIVEN AT HELL CITY! This will be a people choice award that will be done in the Wet Paint room by ballot where attendees will mark their favorite artist to win the “Best Wet Painter” award at Hell City.
The “Best Wet Painter” award will be given Sunday evening at 7pm at the mainstage!
