Philadelphia and Doylestown, PA

Newer color thangs

Here are a few of the new, finished color pieces! Some fun stuff. First up is a completed sleeve! 

Clinton's been keeping a steady set of appointments, once a month, for about a year to get this tattoo depicting Man Vs. Nature. Amongst the details are a bunch of things attacking each other. Got a shark plane attacking a shark, jellyfish attacking a seagull with a sherlock holmes hat, and squid attacking a mini sub! Lots of action. There's even a whirlpool from the plug being pulled out the bottom of the ocean on the inside of his wrist (detail shot coming soon... didn't get a good one of that.. sorry!)

Here's Valerie's sugar skull. It is fresh here but looks sooo nice healed. I am definitely getting a healed photo of that one to post. 

And here's a gentleman's tiger. Brian is a dedicated sportsman and fan. Had a lot of fun on this one too. These were all many things of fun.

Beacheeeee

Got a little too busy again earlier this month so I kept putting off updates - but got some fun things for you guys! Upcoming in this post, and then in the next few!! At least I hope they're enjoyable.  I'm going to fill the next post with tattoos, so this one's gonna be dedicated to our recent trip to Pensacola, FL! Good friend Katie lettuce stay in her sweet condo right on the beach. Many many thanks Katie! Short three day spell, but full of perfect weather and sleeping and swimming. Important re-tuning cycle. 

Didn't take my camera on many of the beach excursions, just briefly, so most of the images are going to be from the spanish fort Pickens on the end of the island. Enjoy!

May!

OK!
It's been forever it seems since I updated last, I know. BUT I have been busy. Very very busy! Working around the clock. May has been good for completing some of my larger tattoo projects. I'm going to start with some black and grey work. Tomorrow I will probably upload a bunch of color work.
First to be completed was Jeremy's Noah's Ark piece - but you will have to wait for a healed photo of that one.
So we will move on to Craig. Craig comes down from the Baton Rouge area. He has two half-sleeves by me and we finished his chest this go round. We figure there's about 20 or so hours just on his chest (over 4 sittings) and 40 hours all around, easy. This guy can sit! The chest is a collision and extension of the two half-sleeves. It's all in black and grey with the heart being the only part in color to give it more emphasis. He pretty much let me do my thing with the designs, giving me a general idea of his direction with the good/evil theme.

I have a photo of his other half sleeve but I will have to dig in my external hard drive to find it... I'll post when I do.

Later in the week Kyle stopped by and we took some photos of his healed backpiece. Kyle came in with an interesting idea for his back, chock full of meaning but it also came together in an interesting visual way! He had a list of things he wanted: a portrait of himself whistling and kicking a soccer ball, his daschund,  a wall with a chalkboard displaying maxwell's distribution, and an old school desk on the wall as well. Quite a lot to include!! He left the design to me but wanted it kind of cartoony, so I applied a kind of fish-eye look to make it more playful because I tend to have a more realistic approach when rendering. 

Later tonight or tomorrow I'll upload even MORE photos of some of the other pieces I've finished. But that's all for now - gotta go eat some delicious foods and prepare for today's session.

st roch, prosthesis man

A day or two after i got back to new orleans angelique and i went on a site-seeing adventure at the st roch cemetery! Had never been there, and definitely didn't expect to find a closet full of prosthetics in the chapel - Pretty erie since most of the items showed significant signs of weather and tear. That'll get the most photos up today for sure. Found a couple small moments here and there and just kind of played tourist like i did in japan. I'm trying a different approach to everyday life, attacking it with the same keen scrutiny as a tourist, as if i were confronted with it for the first time, in the hopes it'll yield new things to think about... what it is... what this is...

aaannyways. also made a trip to spanish fort in lakeview. It's where i used to catch the bus in middle school. Fun times, the bus!

st roch

st lucy and her plate of eyeballs

cannon ball maker at spanish fort.

bus stop. we used to hide hubcaps in the tree skirt. 

there was this one particular bump, and i would pick one up almost every day.

one day the plants were trimmed and the hubcaps were gone.

our bus stop got moved soon after that...

also in lakeview! vietnamese church thing.

sunday barbie on felicity