Royal Art Books, Evansville, IN (2024)

11/17/2022

❤️😈It’s great to already see some tattoos being done from volume 2. This one one from if you’ve done one send em out way so we can re post them! www.royalartbooks.com ❤️😈

11/10/2022

All pre orders for “STONEY ST. CLAIR: rediscovered flash volume 2” have shipped! Any orders that haven’t gone out today will go out tomorrow morning! Can’t wait to see all the tattoos being done from this book. and ourselves are super proud of how it came out! We’ll be shipping almost daily from here on out!

11/09/2022

We’ve shipped out almost all the pre orders! The rest will go out today and tomorrow! Thanks to everyone who has ordered. They’ll begin to ship out daily next week! and ourselves are very stoked to get these in your hands! www.royalartbooks.com

11/04/2022

Hey everyone! We had a bit of a printing/Shipping delay but the books have arrived and will begin shipping out early next week. We’ll have all the books on their way next week! Thanks for your patience and we can’t wait for you all to see these! if you haven’t ordered one yet nows the chance to get it shipped out asap! www.royalartbooks.com

10/20/2022

The Stoney books will ship by the end of the month! (Some sooner) if you don’t have volume 1 or the acetate book we have a deal on the site where you get all 3 for 30 dollars off! Click the link in the post for more information. www.royalartbooks.com

10/18/2022

If you know you know. “Rediscovered flash: Stoney St Clair volume 2” contains one of the most iconic tattoo designs of all time. has been doing ‘em up right, now you can too. www.royalartbooks.com

10/16/2022

We had the best time at the 2nd meet up run by .archive saw a lot of friends, heard a lot of great presentations and saw a lot of tattoo antiques. There will be another one next year. These meet ups really can’t be beat! Thank you to Chuck and Harriet for putting it on. Too many people to tag but I’ll tag a few!

10/13/2022

🔥Only a couple weeks until these will start shipping. 🔥 thanks to everyone who has ordered so far. Stoney collection will be out to the public in all its splendor. Grab one today if you haven’t! Just tap the photos for the link.

10/07/2022

Here’s a neat one! 1931. Signed by Bill Moore himself! www.royalartbooks.com

10/04/2022

🌹Although Leonard “Stoney” St. Clair’s name is universally known amongst the tattoo artist, little of Stoney’s flash had been published or seen until a few years ago. Columbus Tattooer was able to acquire over 30 years of Stoney’s flash and effects. Stoney uniquely wrote the date and location of each painting on the back (as well as when he would touch up or add to a painting). Volume 2 contains hundreds of flash sheets of Stoney’s beautifully hand painted flash from early to mid 1970s, from his time in Columbus Ohio.
We couldn’t be more excited to share the second volume of this beautiful collection of unseen and unpublished works of one of
“Stoney” St. Clair REDISCOVERED FLASH Volume 2! PRE ORDERS UP NOW! They will ship around the end of October! 🌹link in bio or just click the link in the photo! ❤️

10/03/2022

This set of flash is from Milton Zeis. But was all redrawn from waters production flash. It’s some of the coolest flash in existence we got super lucky and got the whole set! One day it will all be a in a book! For the time being here’s some really cool designs you can just “steal” and tattoo. The lady head, rose and snake combo can’t be beat. www.royalartbooks.com

09/25/2022

PRE ORDERS ARE UP! 🌹Although Leonard “Stoney” St. Clair’s name is universally known amongst the tattoo community, very little of Stoney’s flash had been published or seen until a few years ago. Columbus Tattooer was able to acquire over 30 years of Stoney’s flash and effects. Stoney uniquely wrote the date and location of each painting on the back (as well as when he would touch up or add to a painting). Volume 2 contains 70+ sheets of Stoney’s beautifully hand painted flash from early to mid 1970s, from his time in Columbus Ohio.
We couldn’t be more excited to share the second volume of this beautiful collection of unseen and unpublished works from a legendary tattooer!
Stoney St.Clair REDISCOVERED FLASH Volume 2! PRE ORDERS UP NOW! They will ship around the end of October! 🌹link in bio or just click the link in the photo! ❤️ www.royalartbooks.com

09/18/2022

🌹Not only do we have the New Stoney Flash books up for pre order but we have about 20 more copies of “Tattoo memories: Brunson family collection” by and this book is one of the best tattoo history books ever produced and we were super honored to be a part of its production! These are limited edition and will be a big time collectors piece one way. Aside from there you could base most of your careeer from designs from this book. www.royalartbooks.com 🌹

09/13/2022

Sat down to go through the final proof before “rediscovered flash: Stoney St. Clair volume 2” goes out to the printers today! This book will feature hundreds of designs from Stoney’s beautiful painted flash from the collection of . Pre-orders will be up soon with a ship date of late October! www.royalartbooks.com

09/12/2022

“Stoney St. Clair Rediscovered flash volume 2” is currently being finished up! We’ll have pre orders up in the next couple weeks. More details soon! www.royalartbooks.com

09/09/2022

We’ve got these up in the site and ready to ship! “Tattoo memories” the Brunson Family collection features 100s of pages and 1000s of tattoo designs, biographies, descriptions and infinite wizard wisdom written by the tattoo legend Himself Dana Brunson. These books are published, layed out and put together by NLT PUBLISHING (with a little help from us with scanning and photographing) Hard bound and limited edition these are arguably one of the best tattoo history books ever published! For more information check out on Instagram! www.royalartbooks.com

09/09/2022

We’ve got these up in the site and ready to ship! “Tattoo memories” the Brunson Family collection features 100s of pages and 1000s of tattoo designs, biographies, descriptions and infinite wizard wisdom written by the tattoo legend Himself Dana Brunson. These books are published, layed out and put together by NLT PUBLISHING (with a little help from us with scanning and photographing) Hard bound and limited edition these are arguably one of the best tattoo history books ever published! For more information check out on Instagram! Order yours today! www.royalartbooks.com

09/08/2022

A blank Milton Zeis card. These cards were designed to be an easy and economical way to put your information on business cards with a custom stamp. This method would be especially ideal for a traveling tattooer that was just tattooing in a location for a season. www.royalartbooks.com

09/05/2022

First photo is the Famous Zeis panther sheet. These are arguably the best panther designs and there’s something for everyone. Second photo is from an Owen Jensen supply house catalog, advertising his panther sheet. So much of tattooing was stolen, borrowed or heavily influenced. Just as it is today. Enjoy! www.royalartbooks.com

08/27/2022

🔥Are these the best man’s ruin designs? The answer is yes. Only a few more weeks before volume 2 of Rediscovered flash volume 2 comes up for pre-order! 🔥

08/23/2022

Advertisement for E.A Hazard circa 1917. I’ve seen other photos of him before. Anyone know who did his tattooing?

08/18/2022

🌹“In memory of: the story of WR king” from . The book features 40+ hand painted sheets from Wilbur Raymond King, a full biography, family photos and lots of other items related to his life and tattoo career. Printed with high quality binding and offset printing. Books are getting down to the last couple boxes and ready to ship. we ship almost daily! 🌹www.royalartbooks.com