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I've been working on this painting for the past couple of months, and I think I'm finally calling this layer done and now I'll let it dry a bit and then glaze it. I'm really happy with this one, I feel it's the first painting I've done where I've felt like I'm starting to get a feel for oils and how they work and that I'm actually beginning to paint instead of drawing with paint, if that makes any sense. It isn't a great photo because of glare, etc., I'll try to take better ones when it's finished. It's 12" x 36" on canvas.

I thought it was about time I posted my recently in progress backpiece, started end of Feb this year.
This pic is about 36 hours in progress. I am quite tall and also have a bit of extra meat around the "love handle" area so is a big amount of skin to cover.
I have been doing constant 3 hour sessions every 2-3 weeks with 2 x 6 hour sessions thrown in. Generally have been pretty good with each session but I have to say left thigh background shading for some reason sucked incredibly, probably one of the least favourite sessions of all my new work. Strange thing was the right thigh shading a week later (not shown in pic) was easy.
I just noticed btw the snakes body going across my arse does line up, it looks like it doesn't but must have been the way I was standing in the pic. It was taken after the left thigh shading session and I was not a happy camper. :)
Also just attached the outline after the 1st 6 hour session.

wrapped my back up yesterday with max kuhn and it is a great feeling. 4 sessions total, around 13 hours.

After a month off back with Horitomo on Saturday and Jill the following Saturday.

After a month off back with Horitomo on Saturday and Jill the following Saturday.

After a month off back with Horitomo on Saturday and Jill the following Saturday.

After a month off back with Horitomo on Saturday and Jill the following Saturday.

After a month off back with Horitomo on Saturday and Jill the following Saturday.

After a month off back with Horitomo on Saturday and Jill the following Saturday.

After a month off back with Horitomo on Saturday and Jill the following Saturday.

This is a really terrible picture but I got this cigar smoking frog from El Monga at Aloha Tattoo Barcelona yesterday. I am super stoked that he decided to attach himself to my leg because I think we're going to have some good adventures together.
@bongsau Really sorry for your loss, and my deepest condolences. Sometimes it's the silly little tattoos that have the deepest significance.

I did! Kind of. I made it to Three Tides in Tokyo where I had a wonder experience all around and ended up with a nice little dragon head by Ganji.
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I'm putting this in because I've had good feedback :)
Rose morph done by Nick Agnew at Kingsland Ink, Auckland, NZ

Yesterday, after two years in progress, Marius Meyer finally finished my back piece. It was 6 painful well worth hours. Going back for a touch-up in the belly plates and white in eyes/claws/teeth. @Iwar has some cool footage from the session that he maybe will post, I think?

This is the best advice in the world.
When you understand where a lot of us come from here Miss Veronica you will see @Graeme was being genuine, welcoming, friendly and sincere.
Now, after you apologise for calling his knowledgeable response dumb, maybe you can start appreciating and learning why this advice is so sound.
Plus, I like it. Reminds me when I wanted my eagle slammed into my stomach and ribs, I said to my tattooer. I don't give a fuck how it looks, all I want is a trad looking fuck off eagle in flight gripping another big fuck off skull drilled into my mid pipe. He knew exactly what I meant.
For me, it represents my freedom, my flight from a dark period into a brighter future, although carrying elements to remind me of where I've been, and to where I'm going.
Ha! No it doesn't, I literally just made that shit up on the spot! Maybe I watched too many episodes of M.I. Sounds fuckin cool, I mean stupid but doesn't it?
No, I got it because...well, you should kinda get it by now I'm hoping :)
Welcome the fuck to LST. The friendliest place on the web ;)

Thought I'd throw this in. I hope no one minds as I've not posted too much on here.
Done by Stewart Robson - Frith Street Tattoo

Horitomo posted a pic on instagram of the progress on my front. This is my right thigh.
HORITOMO @horitomo_stateofgrace | Websta

Can't remember if I posted this here
Sundancer but Valerie Vargas, Frith Street Tattoo

Couldn't resist booking a little one with El Monga while I'm in Barcelona. I'm getting a frog because I really love frog tattoos, and I really love El Monga's tattoos so it's going to be super cool and fun.

@9Years I've seen a bunch of his frogs on his Instagram and I love them. They have a really great feel to them.
The shop guy at Aloha was excited to see what Monga is going to come up with because he hasn't seen him do a frog before, and then he showed us this tattoo he got from Monga when he asked for a squirrel and it's this squirrel being constricted by this snake/dragon kind of thing and it's amazing and probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of squirrel tattoo. So who knows what this frog is going to look like but it's going to be great.

I just booked my first appointment of 2014 (which is hard to believe): I'm getting an uchide no kozuchi (as referenced here) from Horisuzu at Dark Horse in LA on August 2nd. I'm also going to the Perseverance exhibition that day. I can't wait!

Grez just made this one on me a few hours ago...
I'm in love.

Picked up this lil' thigh giblet while on vacation in Japan in 2013 from the (then) Hiroshi Hirakawa at Three Tides Tattoo, Osaka

Filler done by Chad Koepinger a couple of months ago: