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Drawing Health

Drawing Health

For me, art has always been therapeutic. Feeling alone and unimportant sometimes permeates my life. Wishing someone would care or help doesn’t make life better, so if I’m paying attention to my downward spirals, I usually start drawing…a lot. It’s not an instantaneous cure, but it usually gets me through the days. I like to…

Pixar, Poppys, and Damn Apple

Pixar, Poppys, and Damn Apple

I got Rex and Bullseye worked in to the Disney sleeve. Next session I’ll start Buzz Lightyear, then we’ll move downward with some Pirates of the Caribbean stuff and Nightmare Before Christmas. My neighbor came in for her 4th session and got some poppys added to her floral piece. Next time will be some daisies…

Lights and Tattoos

Lights and Tattoos

Anyone who knows anything about Jeeps knows the stock headlights are garbage. Once a month I take my friend to Reno for doctor visits and we always leave before the sun is up. And every time I’m white-knuckle driving and cursing my crappy headlights. So I finally got some new LED ones. Her dad used…

Cosmic Stuff

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…

Sleeves and a Foot

Sleeves and a Foot

I did a colorful peacock feather on the foot of a client who I last tattooed 18 years ago. Feet are painful. She did good but I could tell she was gritting her teeth. I finished up the Hawk/tree/soldier sleeve with some cloud fill and a wash of color up top. He’s going to come…

Roses and a Fast Car

Roses and a Fast Car

I finished round two on an addition to a wrist tattoo of a rose. Looking at it now I can see some things that need touching up. No big deal, had I kept going I think I would have run the risk of overworking the skin. She has more tattoos lined up in the future…

Horror Weeds

Horror Weeds

I continued work on the horror movie leg sleeve today. The upper thigh will consist of the four phases of Dracula from the movie – Prince Vlad, Werewolf, bat creature, and old man. I did the werewolf phase today. Midway through the tattoo I switched to a 23-mag needle, which is pretty wide.  While dipping…

Working always Working

Working always Working

Trying to keep on top of drawing designs, scheduling clients, inventory, ordering supplies, and tattooing can overwhelm me sometimes. Hence no blog the past few days. I worked in some cloud fill on what I believe is session number six on this particular sleeve. We should be done on his next session. Sad story –…

Age and Rosemary

Age and Rosemary

I actually went and picked up a client for her tattoo session the other day because her car was broken.  I did a rosemary plant on her shoulder blade with an Italian phrase. She kept thanking me for listening to what she wanted. Apparently there is no shortage of tattoo artists who simply do what…