So what do tattooers do when they aren’t injecting colorful inks into human skin? Judging by last year’s “Drawing Blood” and its current “Drawing Blood II” follow-up at the Ghostprint Gallery, a hybrid of art gallery and tattoo studio, they exchange their needles for paintbrushes in impressive numbers. The results could hardly be more different.

In conjunction with June’s First Fridays Artwalk, Ghosprint Gallery will open the Richmond Illustrators Club’s third annual juried show tomorrow from 7 to 10 p.m.  The gallery received about 150 submissions from illustrators from across the country as well as the United Kingdom, said gallery owner Geraldine Duskin.

Ghostprint Gallery in the Downtown Arts District recently hung a show of new works by Amanda Wachob, a painter and tattoo artist living and working in New York City. Wachob’s paintings often draw satirically on fashion photography and illustration from the’40s,‘50s and’60s. “Amanda is far too young to have seen the images that inspire her paintings when they were published, but she feels enticed and slightly manipulated by them,“ says gallery owner Geraldine Duskin. “The work we’re showing reflects in a subtly ironic and quite contemporary style her fascination with these dated and idealized presentations of women.“ Wachob’s work has been featured in Juxtapoz, an art and culture magazine. It has also been shown widely nationally and internationally. Through Jan. 31 at 220 W. Broad St. Open Wednesday through Saturday 1 to 7 p.m. or by appointment. For more information, call (804) 344-1557 or visit http://www.ghostprintgallery.com.—Jo Lord