Name: Beauty Is Only Precious Because It Ends by Curt Montgomery
Brand: Curt Montgomery
Price: 450 USD
Availability: InStock

Curt Montgomery is a Toronto-based tattoo artist specializing in bold, minimal line work, known for his sassy, sweet and cheeky designs.  

A youthful woman with flowers in her hair looks in a circular mirror reflecting back a skull with a night sky scene in the background. 

Beauty Is Only Precious Because It Ends

Intro

A smutty scene of three lovers enjoying love

Happy Sunday

A skull transitioning into a beach scene with a woman in a swimsuit diving into the water.

Absolutely Blissed Out

A woman with her hand caressing her own cheek with flowers growing out of her head. 

I Am Grateful For Everything You Taught Me

My iteration of The Hanged Man (XII). It is the twelfth Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks. It is used in game playing as well as in divination. It depicts a pittura infamante, an image of a man being hanged upside-down by one ankle.

The Hanged Man (XII)

A naked woman dancing around a fire with the night sky above her

Fire Dancer

Let's collaborate on your tattoo design! Share your ideas in advance or we can draw together in-studio. Any tweaks needed? We'll adjust on your session day. Price covers your custom design and a half-day session (3-4 hrs) for 1 small-to-medium tattoo.

Custom Tattoo

Let's collaborate on your tattoo design! Share your ideas in advance or we can draw together in-studio. Any tweaks needed? We'll adjust on your session day. Price covers your custom design and a half-day session for 1 small-to-medium tattoo.

A hand grabbing around the band of a pair of panties from the front

Come Closer

A woman on her hands and knees holding up a glass tabletop with a floral centrepiece 

Centrepiece

Let's collaborate on your tattoo design! Share your ideas in advance or we can draw together in-studio. Any tweaks needed? We'll adjust on your session day. 

Price covers your custom design and a half-day session for 1 small-to-medium tattoo. 

A skeleton hand making a heart symbol with a tearful eye in the center 

Keeping Me Under

Four red and black hands grasping each others wrists in a circle

Full Circle

Full Attention

A double lined black and red illustration of a seated beauty

Double Trouble

Profile of two people kissing with block text 

You'll Never Bore Me

A woman posing on a skeleton hand in red rope bondage with an eye covering

Posing in Bondage

Angels & Demons 02-2024

A nude woman leaning over to greet her best kitty-girl friend with a houseplant in the background

Best Girlfriends

A nude woman leaning over and looking over her shoulder with red flames all around her. 

Burn For Each Other

Vertical Rose 02-2024

Dead Head lol

Hand Study 02-2024

A hand grabbing around the band of a pair of panties from the back

Take This Waltz

A womans torso reflected in a mirror wearing bondage lingerie, with jewelry boxes and a rose on a shelf. Based on a portrait by Toronto based photographer and artist Avery Steel, my muse and partner.

Avery In Her Bedroom

Vertical Rose

Dancing Queen

A sexy, tender queer scene - just some men loving men in the best way 

Do It Again

Disco Night

A grouping of red and black line work hands 

Touch Garden

Hand Study 01-2024

Angels & Demons 01-2024

A lover with their hands bound behind their back being embraced from the front. This piece was inspired by the American artist Robert Mapplethorpe. 

Robert

A man and a woman lay on a bed caressing each other. The woman is wearing accent red underwear and has long flowing hair that hangs off the side of the bed. The man has his face nuzzled into her neck and lays on top of her. 

We Were Never Friends, Not Really

A camping scene in the Canadian Rockies with a silhouette of two lovers getting it on in a tent. 

Travel Guide To The Canadian Rockies

It's Finally Your Turn To Be Looked After

Flaming Skulls in Red

Face Sit - 01 2024

A woman wearing a collar and chain leash licks a pair of red heels

Boot Licker

A lovely human reading a book on how to lie like a man while using a magic wand

How To Lie Like A Man

Greyson the cat sits by a vase with a single red flower

Greyson

Feet Study 01-2024

A cis-gendered female nude opening a curtain with a red skull illustrated across her torso

Vermont

A swirly abstract piece of two hands touching a vulva

Look Closely

February Embrace

Close To Paradise

Let's collaborate on your tattoo design! Share your ideas in advance or we can draw together in-studio. Any tweaks needed? We'll adjust on your session day. Price covers your custom design and a full-day session for 2 small-to-medium tattoos or one larger scale tattoo (5-6 hours). 

A portrait inspired by a photograph of my partner Avery looking out the window at her apartment in Toronto

On Your Own

Two long haired beauties leaning in for a make-out. 

Hold Steady

Sexy, abstract linework design of an orgy

Cuddle Puddle 

A kinky BDSM portrait of a lady and her restraint gear

Helplessly Hoping

Linework design of hands making a heart symbol with cuffed wrists

Bound by Love

Touchdown

A skull with flames surrounding the top of the head.

Flaming Skull in Black

A hand holding a flaming heart with barbed wire wrapped around it.

Hot Love is Forbidden

A girl and her cat doing yoga poses together

Yoga Kittens 02-2024

A man caresses the face of a woman laying upside down. 

I Hope I Never See You Again

A girl and her cat doing yoga stretches together.

Yoga Kittens

A woman straddling a chair backwards with a rain cloud above her head. It's raining and filling up the room with water up to her ankles. Above the clouds is a night sky with a moon and stars. 

What I Do When You're Not Here

A woman with a long braid turning away with the word "lover," written in red on her bicep

Lovergirl

Let's collaborate on your tattoo design! Share your ideas in advance or we can draw together in-studio. Any tweaks needed? We'll adjust on your session day. Price covers your custom design and a quarter-day session (1- 2 hours) for 1 small tattoo.

Beauty Is Only Precious Because It Ends

$450.00

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