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got a little more micro work done today.
(Shannon o'Keefe @ Fat Cat Tattoo,Carmichael, CA)

long time I didn't post (but no worries, I'm still lurking around!)
Here's my last one (2 days ago) by (again) Alix Ge

Here's my healed mini-eagle from Grez... His name is Greagle. :) Coverup of a really, really bad tattoo...

Went back for session 2 on the dragon yesterday. Got all of the black shading done, and just started on color. After five hours I was wore out.  Cant wait for my next session. 

Went to Smith Street about two months ago and had the opportunity to grab this NYC rat from Bert. It's above my ankle. Pretty thrilled.

And here's what Mike made for me on Saturday. Next level chrysanthemum. I am so thrilled!

Tattoo by Cody @ Black Heart Tattoo in SF.
about 3 hours. That last half hour was misery. 

I was going to have my back worked on last night, but it was still tender from the shading of last week.
She knew I wanted an old demon head covered up on my bicep, so we went with that. Took like 3 hours with all the BSing back and forth, cutting a stencil from something already drawn up.
 

Tattoo #49 in the Colouring Book by one of my fave dudes Shawn Hedley at Champion Tattoo Edmonton, AB. This is now officially THE smallest tattoo in my bodysuit (it's about the size of a $0.25). 
 

finally got the nerve to go onto the chest and decided on Walter McDonald at the Bay Area Convention. flipping thru his books of designs took FOREVER!.. the dude puts out so much work, Adam Shrewsbury called him maniacal.  i fell in love with two different designs that fit the center and chest panel well. The center eye was actually dice in Walt's original design, but i asked him to change it up and he gladly did. he's a great dude with a glowing personality! now i just have to find something to fill that empty space to the right and perhaps the collarbone... although i'm not looking forward to the pain that would bring me. even just the tips of that glow were felt in my teeth. strange sensation, but damn stoked on the result!
 

Happy Halloween! This is older but it fits the day!

Super honored to have new peonies from Henning on my right calf. Done at Kings Avenue last Friday. More than a little thrilled!

Back in to my friendly local tattoo emporium this Thursday - rework of 25 (ish) year old dragon - 
before and after in the pics - 

Got this today by Nathan Blankenship at Exile Tattoo,KC.
 
 

Healed pic of tattoo got done earlier this month.  Was quite impressed was able to get this pic by myself :)  It's a Honda CB Twin Motorcycle, done in memory of biker friends who recently passed.  It has healed so beautifully and I am beyond happy with it :)

Done on my inner right thigh, by Tommygunn, Belfast City Skinworks in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  

 

I just got back from the SF convention ,it was a beautiful day in the bay area,got this from Greg Christian.
I met up with Zetroc and Hands On,both really nice guys.

and the 2nd from Joey Ortega https://www.instagram.com/oiseau_noir/:
 

Here are my latest (mostly healed) additions, the 1st by Sean Herman https://www.instagram.com/seanhermantattoo/:
 
 

Aaand my 2nd tattoo in the Bucharest convention, Hannibal by Goran Micic :)
Hannibal Lecter: If I help you, Clarice, it will be "turns" with us too. Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though. About yourself. Quid pro quo. Yes or no?

My new tattoo of the great romanian comedian Dem in one of the best comedies ever (Brigada Diverse), with some additions
Done by fantattoo , on Day 1 of the International Tattoo Convention Bucharest. Also won 1st place on "Best of old school", so that's very cool

so I changed plans for today's tattoo,I got this little Friday the 13th black widow, and for my birthday which is today too. (10/13)
artist Shannon o'Keefe at Fat Cat tattoo in Carmichael Cal.

Not a great pic but this happened yesterday. 
Drawing and tattoo by Ashley Matthias @ Bulletproof Tiger Tattoo in Manchester NH, IG @senslessadornments
 

Hey everyone! I was going to post about having been busy (got 3 new puppies this year!) and me having been on a bit of a tattoo hiatus since my last post but then I realized 4 tattoos since April can't really be called a "hiatus" 😁.
Sure, I would have liked more, and they may be small(ish):
First off a fun little Studio Ghibli handpoke (actually it kind f ended up being two separate tattoos, Totoro/No Face on the back of my ankle and the little soot sprites (small one is about 1cm wide, excuse my blonde monkey hair) on my arm) by Serena Raccuglia. This was a "couple tattoo" to borrow a Korean expression, as the hubby got a matching one, with both Totoro and the sprites on his wrist.
Then the double trouble - mammoth skull on my right forearm, by Alessandro Caponetto, and the pretty (but impossible to photograph by myself) moon/peony blossom on my left shoulder by Claudio Romeo, done at Sick To Ink in Palermo, Sicily. At the same time. Such a fun way to spend a morning 😊.
Last but not least, on Friday I got my first tattoo at a convention: a very cool sacred heart by Vanessa Corsale. 
 
Edit. Totoro pic pinched from tattooer so freshly done, everything else healed, except for the last one obviously (currently with pretty scabs on the yellow and peeling elsewhere)

Brand new shoulderblade piece, 4 days old. Inspired by the cedar waxwing, my favorite bird, and my grandma's pansies (she would have been 120 years old on Friday!) Tattoo by Darcy Nutt at the Richmond convention, blending in beautifully with her previous work the past two years on my SA cichlid/floral half-sleeve. I'm definitely one of Darcy's "nuts"
P.S. All of Darcy's tattoos are free hand

No grit, no pearl filler by Nick Kohlmeier @ Permanent Vacation Tattoo.

 
A little SG I picked up in Kansas City before a U2 concert. (on my U2 arm, 'a red guitar, on fire, desire')
 
Matching Navy tattoos with my son (he's a submariner). Mine is black & gray, his is color. By Nick Kohlmeier @ Permanent Vacation Tattoo.