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
CHECK OUT CHRIS' SOCIAL MEDIA BELOW
2025 PHOENIX WET PAINTERS
Austin West @austinwest_art
Ryan Thompson @ryan_tattoos
Sandi Calistro @sandicalistro
Nicole Marie McCord @nicolemariemccord
Toby Gehrlich @toby_g_art
Florida @floridaforrealart
Kayla Marie Bliss @lissbei
Ainsley Slawson @slawson.mae
Carly Menasco @ carlydoestattoos
Kate Erso @hairofthehound
Nicole Laabs @rocklaabster
Patrick Dunnaway @zombie_panda_tattoo
Bruce Rivera @_brucerivera_art
Bri Appletree @briappletree
Andra King @wabbitandwaven
Dave Hershman @hershtattoo
Jason King @j.king tattoos
Justin Oriani @justinorianitattoos
Samm Taylor @samm.tatts
Misty Locket @mistylockettattoo
2025 COLUMBUS WET PAINTERS
Amber Slick @ambrosia.tattooer
Catherine Kaleel @catherinekaleel
Matthew Lukesh @five_nails_art
Kayanna Winter @kayannatattoos
Ashley Huber @ashley_huber_tattoo
Carly Menasco @carlydoestattoos
Florida Forreal @floridaforrealart
Patrick Dunnaway @zombie_panda_tattoo
Nathan Marti @nathanmarti
Chris Seifrit @cannibal_chris.
Christopher Gay @christopher_vaughn_gay
Mika Eversole @mikaeversole
Void Priest @void_priest_official
Lance Turner @laaaaance
Christine Kailburn @christinekailburn.tattoos
Carlos Roa @roa_tattoos
Christian Perez @christian1perez
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Wet Paint Artists at Hell City Phoenix 2024:
Chris Dingwell
Toby Gehrlich
Christine Vallieres
Andra King
Maxwell Egy
Nicole Laabs
Nicole Marie McCord
Carly Menasco
Austin West
Sandi Calistro
Bruce Rivera
GUSTAVO
Renee Little
Bri Howard
Dave Hershman
Kate Erso
Kara Klenk
Ryan Thompson
Ainsley Slawson
Patrick Dunaway
Wet Paint Artists at Hell City Columbus 2024:
Chris Dingwell
Renee Little
Carly Menasco
Caryl Cunningham
Susannah Griggs
Kate Erso
Hannah Aitchison
Florida Forreal
Tee Jay Dill
Mika Eversole
Luka Weinberger
Amber Olsen
Amber Slick
Ashley Huber
Kara Klenk
Josh Payne
Maxwell Egy
Toby Gehrlich
Dave Hershman
Christopher Gay
Ryan Thompson
Jimmy Dalessio
Killian Moon
Brandon Sontag
Chris Summers
Glizzy Gunning
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Wet Paint Artists at Hell City Columbus 2023
MAIN STAGE:
•Chris Dingwell
•Christopher Vaughn Gay
•Catherine Kalleel
•Toby Gehrlich
•Ryan Thompson.
•David Hershman
•Nathan John
•Griffin Freehling
•Nicole Marie McCord
•Shervin Iranshahar
•Carly Menasco
•Amber Olsen.
•Kate Erso
•Florida Domanski
•Rudy Lopez
•Renee Little
•Ananda War
•Thea Duskin
•Nathan Marti
•Nicole Elisa Perez
•Kurt Windish.
•Amber Slick
JAM ROOM:
•Glizzy Gunning*
•Chris Summers*
•Scott LaMadline *
•Chance LaMadline*
•Christopher Seifrit*
•Anna VanWalsen*
•Thomas Goudy*
•Bob Pelgen*
•Kylie Weist*
•Chris McCall.
•Whitney Brown.
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!
Click names to view portfolios,
2019 PHOENIX, ARIZONA WET PAINTERS
Wet Paint Artists @ Hell City Ohio:
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2019 OHIO WET PAINTERS
Chris Dingwell
Brion Norwalk
Toby Gehrlich
Gen Stanfield
Andala Rae
Carlos Roa
David Hershman
Michael Gilbert
Amber Slick
Dennis Kirsch
Bruce Riehl
Danielle Felczak
Amber Olsen
Steve Martin
Krist Karloff
HELL CITY FINE ART GALLERY IS SPONSORED BY OUR FRIENDS AT BLICK ART MATERIALS!
