I can’t wait to see these! I just know that I’m gonna hate you. 🙂

That’s some fine-ass work! Seriously, seriously beautiful work. I love the serpent.

Welcome, Fred. I cannot draw at all.

@yodaddynukka 141286 wrote:

The pheasant he was working on is on my good homie. Such a dope piece.

It really is a stunning piece, I had seen some progress shots of it on IG so it was pretty cool to see it for real.

@poxphobia 141254 wrote:

You should check out Lowlife tattoo, Freaks tattoo parlor and purple pain tattoo in Trondheim, Norway as well. Some really great talent in this town!

Oh, added to my list; Alexis vaatete. Who I might get in with at London tattoo convention.
August/September might suddenly become one hell of a tattoo time for me 😀

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Stared at Gogue this weekend. It was awesome. He was busy and I was to shy to talk to him. But it was awesome!

Nice. I like that they are not both looking in the same direction. It’s going to be really beautiful after the shading and colour.

@tbos42 141046 wrote:

Thanks, man. Funny, I just started incorporating Kohlrabi in my diet about a month ago, with quinoa, and apples or pears as a side. I love the purple with the veins running through the leaf or the whole plant with its strange clusters, but rainbow chard got the nod due to the different colors. I have started to get heavy on…

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Sweeeeet! I especially love that you have the Jason Butcher – so that you can see what it looks like from the proper perspective, rather than either upside down or as a mirror reflection.

It all depends on the artist. $150/hr is average shop rate here, but locally I go to an artist who charges $200/hr and she is worth it. My side-piece from her was about 24 hours.

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Nice. I think you should definitely keep it! 😎

Are the pics from when it was fresh, or more recent? (The tucked up sleeve and brighter colour in the first pic makes me think it was taken when fresh.)

@jerryatrophy 141012 wrote:

By the way…..is it in poor taste to get tattooed by a guy and have one of his tattoos removed from your body in the same shop on the same day?
….on the same arm …. So he had to look at it the entire time? Doh.

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Nice job. It must have been really cool for your client to see, it’s a different view than the client usually gets.

It’s pretty cool when that happens. It’s sweet to know that you’re sporting a piece that they’re really proud of. (Saw the artist using yours just the other day jerryatrophy!)

Bummer. But you were probably right to let her win this one.

It looks much darker because it is still fresh and hasn’t grown layers of skin over the ink yet. Wait and let it heal. If in 3 or 4 months it still is different enough to bother you, just go in for a touch-up to have the edges blended a bit. But I bet that you won’t need it.

It never hurts to give them reference pictures that show them what direction you are thinking, so that you both know that you are on the same page. But it ALWAYS helps to give an artist of that caliber the freedom to draw it as they ‘see’ it, and how it will best fit (both on the body and with the flow of the piece).

@buttwheat 140540 wrote:

Fuck yes I just scored a spot with Shawn Barber!!!!!!

It’s getting close now.

Which day are you booked for? We’re heading down to Seattle for that weekend, and planning to go to the convention on Saturday.

Hi Brian. Welcome!

Welcome back.

She looks way better than your fixer-upper. Like a hundred times better.

The older one is a bit of a mess, can’t wait to see how it looks after it gets reworked.