Tattoos

Pen Lost

Pen Lost

I spent yesterday frantically searching for my Apple Pencil that I use to draw with. Not sure how I lost it, but luckily Walmart carries them. One of my clients runs the electronics department and he helped me get a new one. Work continues.   I had an afternoon appointment today, which I don’t normally…

Flowers and School

Flowers and School

Yesterday was the first day of school.  I’ve been driving my son Kaleb to and picking him up from school for over 11 years now. For those who don’t know, I left the hospital with him the day after he was born and have raised him by myself ever since. I won’t go into the…

Goodbye, My Painting

Goodbye, My Painting

I did this oil painting last year. It was the only thing I wanted from my divorce. I was refused. Life goes on. I touched up a tattoo on my crossfit client a few days ago, adding some colored lines around the entire piece to tidy it up. She’s tossing around the idea of a…

Snake and the Female policy

Snake and the Female policy

A while back I had correspondence with a new client who booked up this weekend for her and her friend. I was having trouble getting her to respond to messages and confirm times, and I woke up Saturday morning to a message from her saying she was cancelling. So I had the entire weekend off….

Just tattooing

Just tattooing

I finished up a Roman soldier tattoo on a sleeve a couple days ago. I think it’s looking pretty good. In two weeks we’re going to work on the rest of the forearm. Yesterday I started work on a new full-arm sleeve. He has a tattoo of a tiger he got in the Philippines 30…

My Art Their Art

My Art Their Art

Tattooing is a great job, sometimes stressful, sometimes super fun. It can be overwhelming – especially when there’s a long line of clients waiting for me to take care of them. Creating art is challenging, and even more so when clients are not satisfied with the choices I’ve made and I have to try and…

Bunny Escapades

Bunny Escapades

I did a simple design from the Destiny video game on a young client yesterday. Notice it took a couple tries to get the stencil placed in the right spot. I usually start a session placing the tattooing where I think looks good (with the client’s assistance), then I have the client check it in…

Tree and the Dealer

Tree and the Dealer

My Elko couple (Spring Creek to be exact) had an early start to get to my shop at 9am this morning. And they brought me a delicious coffee from our local Telegraph coffee shop. Rather than spread their Fallon visit over two days, I had opted to get them both in today, and a long…

Good Day Rough Day

Good Day Rough Day

I’ve been working on a camouflaged armor sleeve for a very long time now, usually 2-3 hours at a time. I hadn’t seen the client in many months (scheduling conflicts and my ever-expanding wait list) but he made it back in the other day and we trudged onward. The nice thing about this session was…

Fires and Dark Skin

Fires and Dark Skin

I’m getting close to nailing down the design for the client whose sister passed away 5 months ago. Her tattoo appointment is in 2 days. There are a gazillion fires burning all around and the air is filled with smoke. Everyday my eyes water and burn, and I’m feeling tired through every tattoo. A few…