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Putting in the Time
We’re getting close to the end of a full sleeve. I was able to fill a good portion of my client’s forearm with this menacing woman. I didn’t get completely finished with her. After 3 and a half hours we were both getting hungry. I was happy with the progress. I reversed the design last…
Cody DeeganRawwrrr!
Look at that big ole cat! I got in session number two and was able to get the rest of him finished in just under 3 hours. My poor client was hurting for certain! I think I primarily used a 17 curved bug pin magnum and my four shades of Empire whitewash inks. In our…
Beggars and Collectors
One of our local beggars paid my son and I a visit while we were parked at Sonic. A friend of mine calls him Paco, says he’s well-known in that area of town. Gary Oldman played four versions of the famous vampire in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I started work on the third one. That upper…
Mining and a Turnaround
I have been avoiding checking reviews on my app since I first developed it 7 months ago out of pure fear. A few days ago I looked for the first time and posted on the blog about how dismal they were. There were only three reviews, and two of them were 1-star. I actually wasn’t…
Crosses and Flowers
The time change almost screwed me up on the additions to the Jesus tattoo. I thought I had been working on his arm for three and a half hours, so when it was time to pay I almost charged him too much. Luckily I realized I hadn’t set the clocks back in the shop yet….
Lines and Bad Reviews
Tattoos with hard lines have never been my specialty. I tend to avoid them when I can. Today’s session was a tattoo that was only lines – no color, no shading, just lines. Well I got through it. And so did she. I think it was her first tattoo. She heads off to Texas for…
Cosmic Stuff
Well I’ve fallen behind a bit as usual and today I remembered that I needed to update the blog. I got to show off my iPad Pro to a good friend today by sketching up this quick little design. Spontaneous art can be fun to do. I continued work on a sleeve a few days…
Back to Work
I got a new design drawn up for the video game villains piece that I think I am starting this week. I had a server migration on both my website hosting accounts and I think it screwed up my email. I had sent my client some wardrobe ideas a while back and a few weeks…
Some Time Off
I was supposed to go to Jarbidge yesterday but the guy I was going with forgot the days we agreed on and he ended up going there 3 days early. I wasn’t going to have a motel room and I would have had to drive an hour longer because he said I had to go…
Advertising and Tough Tattoos
I figure TattApp won’t sell if no one knows about it. I have some YouTube videos on my channel that have gotten tens of thousands of views, so I thought making a demo video with TattApp would be enough to get the word out. However after a few days the views on that video have…