Sunday, December 19, 2010

Dragon back


In progress...

The classic


Got to do this skull and snake tattoo on a knee the last day of the Portland convention.

Smorgasbord

Heathcliff fish bones tattoo on the foot of an old loyal customer.
Broken fly tattoo on my homie's dome.
Broken sea horse tattoo for my buddy Tone.
Indonesian version of a valkyrie. I did this tattoo on a chicks thigh.

Silverware tattoos, done pretty small, very fun. The one in pink likes to fork and the one in white prefers to spoon. The knife is there in case they need to cut you up and eat you. Watch out.

carbon and something made by a cabron

Got to make one my best little tattoos on one my family friends. A carbon atom stippled wild style.

This tattoo I made using single needle, then shaded with a mag. Had a great time tattooing my paisana from Bari.

Free hand oni

My homie Jason had these kanji tattoos for a while.
This is how I worked with it to make a japanese sleeve.
We have recently added a snake and peony on the inner arm and tricep. Pics of the finished product to come. We have another two sessions to seal the deal on the top half.
A modern hero, japanese mixed with americana.
This my friend Deans beautiful thigh. I did this over a month ago now he needs to come get this thing done.

Phoenix rib panel, she sat like a champ. This took about 20-25 hours I cant really remember. Still need a healed pic....

dragon carp or koi ur call


All healed up.... and from this I was commissioned to make this....
I made this tattoo for my friend's wife. Check out his work he is an awesome monster of a tattooer, Ross Carlson. Hopefully I'll get to throw down on this again soon.

I got you covered

Underneath my scribbles of sharpie and saltwater pens are three roses that looked pretty weak. My client hated her tattoo. So I decided to save the cherry blossoms and murder the roses.
The flower is all healed except for the gold part. This was session two of the tattoo. I did all the background greys, colored the leaves and re-did the cherry blossoms. Good times.
This was a bit of a challenge but after some sharpie sketching I figured out what to do....
I did this free hand cover up tattoo while Jerome was hanging out right next to me. He was cool with it, and I'm probably gonna cover his tattoo of this ladies name.
Crappy photo, I'll get a healed flick hopefully.

my homie Tone

Congrats to my friend tone on his daughter Malia. I was happy to make this heart and tulip tattoo for her on him.
A month after that we did this... A poppy with wings and and a seed of life stippled as a halo.

better late then never

California love
Loved doing these quails and poppies they made for a great tattoo.
I randomly had another request for a poppy tattoo in the same month as the foot. California imagery that is out of the ordinary is the best.

Fancy cat tat, with a gold mouse cane.

long over due

Some fun tattoos, these people were the perfect customers. I was lucky and happy to make them some sweet tats.
Day of the dead lady head.
Did a little something different with the water, and I'm really feeling it.