Tuesday, November 30, 2010

1.5 weeks left!

    So I've done a few more pieces in the past week and thought I would post them....

    This woman was from Brasil and was her first tattoo... She was super sweet and gave me freedom with it aside from the board. It had to be positioned and colored VERY specific.

    Overall I had fun with it, and experimented with a little grey in there... nothing too crazy.

    This was so random and so simple and fun!!! I had to throw it in. She was a college student and we all let her know that this wasn't going to stay. It still looks awesome!


    This wednesday I had another short session with Noah... finished two small stripes. His skin was irritated from hollyrot so we couldn't do too much.

    This time it was especially fun because I got to tattoo with both hands! I haven't done too much with my left hand since I started tattooing, so whynot warm up my left hand to the machine since I already paint with it?

    Now I need to master it!

    This tattoo walked right in on Saturday! What a better tattoo than a hula girl while in Hawaii! He picked it right from the Sailor Jerry stencil book and he let me do my thing. It was so much fun and his skin took the ink sooo well! Had a little trouble stretching up in the armput area, but once I got the hang of it everything went well. This guy is going to let me do another one on his other arm next week!

    I tattooed my coworker/friend Stolfi Saturday night! He let me do whatever I wanted, so we have this sad pigeon holding an umbrella sitting on a branch.. in the rain. We did the entire thing in black, grey and red. It looks kind of dark from the photo, but I stuck to mostly midtone greys so we can watch it heal and I can get more practice in smoothing out my greywash. He was super excited about the design and I got to experiment with lineweight, used two different liners with this one.



    This woman walked in today a few hours ago and picked this one out of our linework reference file. She was super nice and let me have fun with the color. Another biscuit to add to the list!

    So I leave town very soon, so I need to make every tattoo count before I leave. Not that I haven't before, but I need to make sure everything is perfect.

    Until next time...

    ALOHA

Sunday, November 28, 2010

new tattoo girl 24

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new tattoo girl 23

    http://girls-fashions.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/women-tattoo.jpg

new tattoo girl 22

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new tattoo girl 20

    http://www.besttattoogallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Black-Tribal-Dragon-Tattoos-11.jpg

new tattoo girl 21

    http://www.fashion4styles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Women-Tattoos-Designsf.jpg

new tattoo girl 19

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new tattoo girl 18

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Thursday, November 25, 2010

     




    Some framed "micro drawings" I've been doing lately... One was a birthday gift for a friend and somebody else asked me to sell her the other one after seeing it on my facebook page... and then I ran out of micro frames! Haha...
    That's it... :)  

    Otherwise, I'm coming back from Copenhagen, again... as usual, I went there to get tattooed. This time kick ass tattooer Eckel (THANK YOU :) ) inked me an awesome horned owl, perched on some classy belle époque kind of gloved hand...

    Copenhagen was stormy and snowy... the white coat married so well the grey tones of the city, adding some fairy tale touch to the streets and buildings... 
    lovely!  :)








    PS: to all the people waiting for a drawing, I'll be back at work tomorrow! Be expecting news from me very soon... 
    thanx so much for your patience!

Monday, November 22, 2010

Turd polishing 101

    So Saturday I got to rework another old tattoo... this guy had an 8 yr old tribal wristband with a VERY small harley logo on the center. So I draw on him for a bit with Bill and came up with this.

     You can see how small these letters in the logo were. The tribal was easy to figure out, we added a few extra spikes to it in the front to frame out the logo, and wanted to salvage what little spaces we could on the bracelet. The logo was the hardest thing for me... those letters were so damn small and to top it all off his skin was older and the logo underneath was a little scarred.


    After he approved of this we got started. Everything went really smooth I though, but like I said that lettering wasn't the greatest. I need to work on tiny letters. This tattoo was a prime example of why people shouldn't do designs so tiny. After only 8 yrs you couldn't even read the logo anymore. At least the tribal was easily fixable.

     I was able to add some white to the closed up spaces and open up the bracelet some more.
     We were able to put a little bit of color back into the logo, but as for the lettering, the best we were able to do for him at this point was to put the lettering back in and re-outline what he had. The tribal was no problem and he really liked how the lines were sharp again.
    I definitely learned alot from this one, and how you can salvage tattoos that you think are a lost cause.

    Lesson learned: NEVER make a harley logo this small. EVER!

    More stuff to come..
    ALOHA!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

new tattoo girl 15

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new tattoo girl 14

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new tattoo girl 13

    http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af4/tshering7/Love_Tattooed_Woman.jpg

new tattoo girl 11

    http://www.tattoogalleries.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/tiger-tattoo-9b00180027e6ccaf3-300x283.jpg

new tattoo girl 10

    http://www.ebooksouk.com/images/tattoo-designs.jpg

new tattoo girl 9

    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/3620191569_0cde5ceda8.jpg

new tattoo girl 7

    http://nimsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Latest-Angel-Tattoos2.jpg

new tattoo girl 6

    http://eythorjonas.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/tongue-tattoo1.jpg

new tattoo girl 5

    https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfDkiY51NvVOPJARjmY0ktp8gJRcjpmni9Tjs2N5NNF68a_KGBFlJkpdoYqaFYXCoaF8wQQGEERN5itgrIhd9PZ9GZpQRHqqdVGBn3YbGeakpqIBmuUS9GCyEMUn5u44Vfgq1s3VzDGW2Z/s400/kissing+angels+tattoo+design.jpg

new tattoo girl 2

    http://www.towertattoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/butterfly-pussy-tattoo.jpg

new tattoo girl 3

    http://liveneedle.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/angel-wing-tattoo.jpg

new tattoo girl

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2D547JiPaSI/Shl1nE0R4bI/AAAAAAAAAOg/ncrR9At0JRQ/s400/Flower-Tattoos.jpg

Friday, November 19, 2010

more stuff

    So the shop is still a bit slow, but I was able to grab a name the other day and worked on the guy with the palm tree on his leg.

    Here is the name...

    I should have zoomed in more for this photo... so its not the greatest picture. I didn't do the hibiscus above it. I have definitely done better than this but I think I did the best I could at the time. She really liked how it turned out so that made me happy.

     So I got another session in with Dave for his leg. This time I colored in the palm tree and added some cloud outlines in the background. He has alot of faded greenish blue background starting at his foot and goes all the way up. On his foot is an underwater scene, so we decided to make the area by the trees more sky-like. We were going to color in some of the background with a light blue but he was pretty sore after the tree. I'm not the fasted yet so I worked on him for about 2.5-3 hrs.

    The next session we're going to fill in the background and the clouds, and then go from there. I enjoyed working on this and hope to finish it and make it new and clean looking. He has alot of random stuff there so we need to make sense of it.


    Here's a closer view of the tree.

    Back to work now... until next time...

    ALOHA

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Another day

    So even though I was supposed to work sales yesterday, and I did.... but Mike was awesome enough to throw me these two...

    This couple walked in and wanted an outline of this stick figure dude in a canoe.... I think they drew it up or printed it out not really sure, but it was a cute idea and they each got the same thing. She got hers on her wrist much smaller and he got his on back of the calf. Super fun!

    For some reason the wrist image won't upload so once I figure that out I'll post that too.

    After these two, a small logo of an eagle walked in and I was able to do that too, but I totally forgot to take a picture! She will  be back with her husband so I'll be sure to snap a pic next time!

    Off work today heading to the print shop to print out the stuff I've done since they left town. They come back today so I would like to be prepared.


    More to come...
    ALOHA

Saturday, November 13, 2010

A good friday!

    After a long week of doing sales and not tattooing, I was excited for Mike to throw me a few tattoos yesterday. This butterfly walked in a few days ago and her, along with her husband came back to get their tattoos. This woman was super nice and I enjoyed tattooing her. This was challenging because not only was the design super tight, but her skin was SUPER stretchy, and aged.... and THIN. Definitely a test in stretching skills! Overall I was happy with it and hope it heals well.
    These next few pictures are a bracelet made of honus and plumeria on a woman's wrist. After I finished the butterfly she walked in and after 15 minutes of drawing we settled on this. I was really happy with this and she let me design it for her. We alerternated pink flowers with orange and yellow ones. She was really laid back and despite her conservative appearance, she had a gorgeous polynesian rib piece done on the island at a different studio. It's funny how some people surprise you.   

    She comes here alot for vacation so I hope to see this again, see how it heals.



    Unfortunately I don't have any tattoos today, probably won't tattoo again until next week.  Hopefully it will pick up a bit more...

    Anyway, Bill and Anna come home tomorrow so I'm stoked to show them what I've done and do some more projects with them. I'll post a drawing I'm working on soon of a dragon that Bill and I are sketching together.

    I can't believe that I have been here two months already! It went by so fast. Although I love it here, I'm ready to go home, take care of business, tattoo some friends and come back here with a clean slate. I feel like I'm living two lives, one in Hawaii and one in Philly. I miss Philly alot and get homesick here and there. Sounds lame but being away from everything you have been used to for the past 3 yrs can take a toll on you.

    Blah blah blah Gotta get back to work now, Mike is tattooing a sweet backpiece of wings so I should get to cleaning.

    Aloha!

Thursday, November 11, 2010



    Ogiku chrysanthemums are often associated with death, mourning and grief... personally, I just find them extremely graceful, refined...

    Here is some ogiku sketch and the watercolored version... 

    Hope you like it  :)

    Cheers to everyone!!


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