playing some serious catch up!

 This was done while I was out in Hawaii... he came back in the shop after I came home so they guys out there took a healed photo for me! So excited about this one!!!

 Ken's arm!!!! almost done.....

 pearl jam yo!

 fun little swirlies! probably going to shade this differently next time, but had some fun with this

 this was a walkin.... enjoyed this one as well... i think the background could have been done better, next time I have better ideas for how to make the background look better... practice practice!

 walkin... fun little zodiac action

 KITTIES!!!! did this on a schoolmate of mine from college. enjoyed this ALOT... could have done the ribbon better but overall i had a blast doing this, considering how much i LOVE LOVE cats.... haha

 late night walkin... showin some love for Philly! she's from NJ too!  gotta love Philly!

 walkin.... old english fun

busy busy

 So these aren't in the right order, but I'll just go down the line as per usual.

This was a walkin at No Ka Oi a few days ago... Bad Religion!

 I tattooed these in my last post... They just sent me a photo of them together! So cute!

 This was a man who found me via interwebs and asked me to give him his first tattoo... a memorial for someone special he lost. This one wasn't too big and he was a good sport getting this done!

 This is on one of my regulars... I've tattooed him every week or every other week since I got back in town from Hawaii... I think we have one more session left or two to do the stars and dots fill in and add a few small pieces in the empty spots.

 I wish I had a before picture of this one... he came in with the logos already there, for the exception of the lower right roman numerals... needless to say everything was pretty faded and whatnot so I went ahead and freshened up the whole thing.

 This is the half of a best friend tattoo that walked in on saturday in the city. I didn't attach the other picture but they got the same thing...obviously. gotta love cupcakes!

 This was a walkin as well... she came in with this outlined already...

 I know this photo is horrible and dark BUT we colored in the one flower... this was a difficult one, this was my first squirmer... go me!

 Another fun walkin! Buddha! he brought in the image... hope to do more like this!

 Another walkin at the end of the night saturday... Had fun with this one... and he was a cool dude. On a side note, lonestar is supposed to have 2 r's in his case :)

 This was a walkin on sunday at the Portside studio... this was his first one also.

 This is Heather's calf! She was the cherry blossom branch on the foot from a while back. Well she gave me some ideas to go from and I'm going to have so much fun with this piece! We only did the outline for now, but in a few weeks we will have it filled in.

Have some fun stuff lined up so I'll keep you all posted

moving on

 So I haven't had a chance to post anything since I got back to Philly.... Gonna make this quick.

Working at No Ka Oi today... had a newly engaged couple come get matching wishbones...kinda cute idea right?

 So we finally finished the deer skull... One more mini session to go for small touchups however I'm stoked about how it came out. Had alot of fun with the antlers and got to experiment some more...

The 19 was pretty fun too. It was his first tattoo and he did really well. this image is from a Stephen King novel. I liked tattooing this and hope to see him back soon for a healed pic....

 A walk in at the NJ shop.... star action!

 Added onto Ken's arm the other day, we've been slowly adding designs to fill up his arm, we're almost there!! Farther down on this post there's a horse design that also is on his arm. Loving roses lately!

 Just about done Steve's arm. My first poly.

 Walkin at NJ the other day. Still getting better at this area... so far its my least favorite to tattoo!

An old friend from college came by last week and I got to tattoo this on her! Very stoked to finally tattoo someone that has sort of watched me grow from the beginning. Kudos to Nik for taking one for the team for me!!!! You rule!


Until next time....

Last few days in Hawaii

 So the last two weeks here have been awesome! I've had the great opportunity to meet some really sweet new people, made some new friends along the way.

These two designs were on Annie's man Thomas. (Annie had the lighthouse design) He wanted a fun spin on the phrases "Jinx Removing" and "Accident Prone". He gave me the design ideas and we did both designs in the same day. What a good sport, he sat for both in one session. Pardon the not so great photo here, they are even I swear! In this photo his one leg is in front of the other just slightly, so they look a bit lopsided, but theyre not :)

 Close up of the one thigh.... kinda blurry photo :(

 Here's the other one, much clearer pic this time. I had alot of fun with a limited color palette as well. Thanks so much to Thomas for being awesome!

This one was a walkin the other day on a Marine (obviously) He had an eagle design he brought with him that was an eagle with the flag colors in the wings... he chose an eagle from the flash we had here so we could work with his budget and we did the rest with color. He was a cool dude and hes one of those people that make the time fly by. This was a fun one... my first eagle!

 This was a walkin as well... she had this already on her wrist and wanted to keep the kanji but get rid of the date.....a good challenge for me considering I haven't done an official coverup yet. I'd like to be able to do these well, and you gotta start somewhere. Here's what we came up with......

After... she didn't want to go too big for this one so this is what we decided on. Looking back at it I could have brought the blue closer to the kanji to frame it... will apply that the next time something like this comes in....

Had some fun with names the other day... I could tattoo swirls all day. Never gets old.

This one was a big challenge. She had the flower with the name already on her in black and grey.. it was old and faded. She brought in images of koi fish that she wanted and wanted to use water and flowers to tie it all together. I was stoked to try this out.... looking back I could have put better shading in the fish and wish that I had talked her into color in the flower she had. It still looks segmented to me. She was the first client I've had that moved the ENTIRE TIME! She moved and squirmed and moaned and everything. She was a good sport and sat for a while, but I suppose we learn how to deal with these situation as they arise right? I had a long chat with Bill about the execution of this tattoo and have a better idea of how to handle a design like this in the future.... it needed more. Another experience to be had everyday :)

This was a walkin, an homage to this man's pup that passed away :(

This was also a walkin.... he brought in the exact design that he wanted....pretty straight forward Nordic runes.

This one was a blast to do! Many thanks to Blair at Volcom next door for letting me do this HUGE fun Dia de los Muertos girl on her calf! She sat so good, lasted 5.5 hrs... I could have had one more hour with her to smooth out the shading some more at the bottom, however she did excellent and I'm really happy with how much we managed to finish. This was one of my first girl heads and she let me design it however I wanted.... so stoked on this one and learned alot from this one.



I'm at the shop today....pretty slow day, which is ok with me. I have two paintings for two different art shows on the same day so I need to get back to work. One sketch left to go then I can start painting! I'll be posting more upon my return to Philly......


Aloha!