2000 Dragons Book is an elegant hardcover facsimile

is an elegant hardcover facsimile of an actual album of tattoo flash that Ben Corday made for himself while he was on the road as a tattoo artist and carnival tall man

Sailor Jerry Tattoo Flash: Volume One

we immediately asked Ed and Francesca permission to photograph and publish the art on the walls for tattoo history

and this volume and others by Hardy Marks Publications are largely responsible for his well deserved notoriety

2000 Dragons Book is an elegant hardcover facsimileThis book reproduces Don Ed Hardy's painting, 2000 Dragons, a work that evokes the tradition of classic Chinese and Japanese narrative scroll painting. The painting was created to mark the Millennium, a Dragon year in the Asian zodiac. Hardy painted the piece in five foot sections continuously until completed; only five feet of the working surface was visible at a time, and it was painted spontaneously, with no preparatory drawing. The original work,