434 – Finished
Haven’t done one of these in a while. I missed it. Glad I was able to do this for Desirea. What a sweet girl.
FERDINAND THE BULL
435 – IN PROGRESS
Caroline’s mom always used to read this story to her. Another great way to memorialize a loved one. So much more personal than RIP.
This is the 3rd session. It’s pretty grueling work for us both. haha. One more to go.
OWL ON A WEATHERVANE DRAWING
My client Crissy and her Fiance are getting tattoos representing each others last names. He designed both tattoos but hers just wasn’t right. A cool design but bold lettering on her forearm wasn’t ultimately what she wanted for her lifetime.
After some discussion we decided on a weathervane with an owl on top ( his last name is weatherman) .
I hope she likes it.
ROTTED OUT TREE
425 -In progress
It was a pretty awesome day when I went to CruZzer’s pizza for a vegan pie last week and walked out with a deposit from the owner. Turns out he’s been following my work for a while and decided we wanted me to finish off his sleeve.
He is really into bio mechanical and Bio organic style. Neither of which I have ever done before. So I was honest with him and told him that stuff either looks great or terrible. I don’t want to experiment on him. He opted to go with something more literal and more my style.
He wanted a rotted out old tree with new growth spring from it. So here it is. We decided in order to make the tree work with the tattoo he has currently it would be cool to just have it run right on top of it. Who knows may be we’ll cover it all together or at least redo it. That we will find out in time.
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BEAUTIFUL KOREAN LADY TATTOO – IN PROGRESS
284 – Sheena has a tattoo of a fan that point blank was done poorly. It looks like a web not a fan. She came in with the idea of putting swirls or what ever and give it flow. I didn’t really dig that idea. The flow she wanted would be achieved but it wouldn’t make the piece elegant or beautiful.
This was my idea.. She loved it. I’m siked to keep working on this piece.
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FLOWERS AND FILAGREE
431 – In Progress
Allison came to me with a drawing her friend Tania did for her. It was a great start for a tattoo desig, a thousand times better than anything anyone else has ever handed over to me to get tattooed. But still it needed a few hours of clean up work. Once I got it all drawn up we were ready to roll on the tattoo.
Note the differences between Tania’s sketch (left) and my cleaned up version (right), It’s the little things that make all the difference.
Session 1
We have a lot of work ahead of us. But we got 3 hours of line work in the first session. That neck part was a bitch, but we both got through it.
PEOPLE WEARING THEIR TATTOOS
I love to see pics of people loving their tattoos. We have a lot of work to do on this one but Dava, is wearing her battlestar tattoo in with pride.
DINOSAUR TATTOO
416 – in progress
Fuck yeah Dinosaurs and yes that’s a step brothers quote. Don’t lose your dinosaur!
Session 2
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BUDDHA LEG PIECE
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Session 4
Put in the opaque greys and finished the flowers today. Colored with the Dan Kubin Mini Cranker.
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