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My 400th watcher subscribed to my page yesterday, so I was thinking it was time to thanks the whole lot of you who are following my artistic evolutions !

A big hug to every last one of you, wherever you might be in this world!!!

Also, for the bloggers, I have created a website in order to share my art, but also some articles and a bit of my tiny life story with travels. chloecarbonneaulabrecque.com/

Thanks to everyone again!!!

Best wishes
Chloe

    A bronze age man died five thousand years ago and his corpse was imprisoned into the ice of the mountains separating Austria and Italy. We found more than 50 tattoos over his body which consisted mainly of lines and crosses. Those marks have been made by scrubbing charcoal into fine wounds. The reason behind those tattoos was probably therapeutic, since their locations correspond with parts of the body touched by arthritis.

    Amunet was an egyptian priestess of the goddess Hathor in Thebes and was probably a concubine of king Mentuhotep II. She lived during the ninth dynasty (around 2150-1990 BC) and her body was covered of tattoos resembling those on  brides of the dead (little figurines placed in tombs of male mummies). The most particular ones were located on the bottom of her belly and were accompanied by scarifications. Those marks were probably related to an idea of fertility and were found on many mummies of dancers. Also, here are some interesting facts:

1. Of every egyptian mummy found to this day, only those of womens were tattooed.

2. The first figurative tattoo that was made represented Bes, the god of revelry and master of ceremonies at orgies.

    In the Altai Mountains of Siberia, close to the borders of Mongolia and China, was found a tomb of a nomad chief of horsemen that lived around 500 BC. Rain flooded in the tomb shortly after the burial and by freezing, it preserved the chief's tattooed skin. Animals (mythical and real) were the main subjects of his tattoos. We think that those were made by the insertion of little needles also used for broidery. But the most surprising are the little circles on his back that coincide with the linear markings on Otzi's  back. The tattoos correspond to acupuncture marks, which was said to have originated in China two thousand years ago…

 
Other tattooed mummies have been found around the world such as in Libya and Peru proving that tattooing have a far more complex history than what we are usually led to believe.  

Nephtys Tattoo studio is inviting you to our very first seminary. Trought it, we desire to gather talented artists and tattooists in order to share our passion. During the event, we are receiving a very accomplished painter from New York, Steven Assael (www.stevenassael.com/). We will also practice our painting skills with a live model.

The seminary takes place during the 23th and 24th of November at our studio in Sherbrooke (Qc, Canada) 61 Wellington Nord. For more information, please take a look to the attached file and contact me by e-mail: chloecarbonneau.labrecque@gmail.com

With the hope to receive you in our studio.

Nephtys

I'm going to Toronto with friends from cegep:
to go at a deviant meeting organized by
toronto.deviantart.com/devmeet…
toronto.deviantart.com/journal…

If you live near by, come and join the club!

I haven't been much productive these last months because of the many things that happened in my life...

All of it began in April when I went to 48hBD, a sort of BD convention for cegep students in Valleyfield. I met there a tattoo artist who introduced me to her world, and I fell in love with it. 

During the end of my cegep, I cancelled my application to university, and applied to many many studios while having some trouble with my parents having to accept this. In the end, I was accepted as an apprentice under the wing of Nathalie Duquette in Nephtys Tattoo for a contract of 4 years... in Sherbrooke (two hours from Montreal). 

Mean while, from the contacts of 48hBD, I found a scenarist who was searching for an illustrator for his graphic novel. I contacted him, and he accepted me. He later referred me to my current apartment since he was coincidentally studying in the university of Sherbrooke. 

Then I went in a one weak travel with two students of my program and a teacher for the Romerias de Mayo of Holguin in Cuba. There, a looooooooot of things happen and I hope I'll have time some day to translate my journal in English. French version (in progress): lelocaldufond.blogspot.ca/?m=1

Finally I passed all of my exams (61% at philosophy - thank god XD) and ended up with 2 awards. 

That's when I went to Sherbrooke, in the home of a great aunt I've seen one time in my life before (a great person) did a one week sort of chilling in the studio (where I drew a lot, but I don't have huge scanners or a camera with me...) My studio was also moving out at a bigger place on Wellington Street and I'm currently helping them out with that. Fun fact, their new studio is super close to my apartment. The apartment was incredibly dirty by the way, so I spent one week cleaning it XD. I invited a friend who could cook for another week, because I practically have never cooked in my life and I was a bit lonely in this new city where I knew no one. 

Then Fururin appeared out of nowhere to revive my year long project of translating a dragonlance russian musical. She did an incredible job at translating the entire play, so I passed all my few free times in correction and video editing.
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Last week, I learned that my cousin who was studying for becoming a doctor, had also a contract of 4 years in Sherbrooke, so I helped her moving out... three streets from my own apartment. And I met my very first coloc (I think we're going to be around 6 persons in that apartment) who brought with a one year old kitty :3. 

And... Oh yeah! I'm bald! I did the shaved head challenge of Leucan. And also a photoshoot yesterday.