car- rayzie tatz

Got a couple of funzies here for this here post here.
And of course, why not begin with a customized dedication to the Wu?

The lines for the squid are a drawing by Jeremy Fish. Great artist, check him out. I rarely ever use another artist's drawing for a tattoo, but the client contacted Mr. Fish for permission. The client also has some Ashley Wood imagery on his leg.

And finally, a peak at a really crazy Rampage arcade leg piece! It's a phone photo so bear with me though.

Ryan came to me with an existing outline that he was unhappy with (for good reason) of a rampage theme on the front of his leg, and let me run with it. After many hours of rework and new work he's now the owner of a really awesome and intense leg piece! 

There will be better, more detailed photos of his leg in future updates. Just wanted to share! Next I'll be posting some drawings I think. Lots of fun tattoos in the werkss.ss.s.ss. .   

Ink n Needles art show

I'm going to try and stay on top of this blog, see if I can keep it up with some of the interesting things n such. Sooooo where to begin??
Last month, right after I got back from my tattoo residencies in Baltimore, MD and Doylestown, PA I began my transition from Electric Expressions where I'd been for 5 breathless years to working at Hell or High Water Tattoos on Magazine St - still in New Orleans, or it's actually in New Orleans, just uptown instead of by the airport where EE is located.

And THEN - the second week of October, also right when I got back, there was the opening of Ink N Needles, A Tattoo Exhibition at SLU (Southeastern University). I was asked to participate in the show and submitted a plethora of things, all different, so I was intrigued to see what Dale, the curator, chose to display.

I forgot my camera. So we will have to make do with our imaginiation for now, so like let's pretend like when we were kids and I'm telling a storytime. I may be able to get some photos from Dale or the university at a later point, but right now lettuce make believe... so of my stuff he mostly hung my process drawings and sketches, leading into the final drawing and then a photo of the finished tattoo work. There were also two of the finished drawings of some sleeves I have finished or begun - the shark/plane/squid/minisub and the superhero/cityscape. It was different from most of what everyone else presented. A majority of the work was hand-painted tattoo flash imagery, some enlarged photos of executed tattoos, and then some illustrative paintings by tattooers too. The contributing artists were from all across the country. Locally, Tattooagogo and Electric Ladyland had several artists showing work. It was a fun show - made me want to go home and draw!

Here's some of the promo material - the poster for the show (a tattoo by Donn Davis of Tattooagogo), and the catalogue, also flipped to the page featuring my work (the Nola's Ark halfsleeve).