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These are both a year or more old at this point, but I never actually put them in this thread.
The death's head moth was done by Oliver Peck when he guested at Kadillac Tattoo Mt. Airy (Philadelphia) last summer. Not the best picture, but he ended up slipping a lot of hot pink in there that wasn't at all what I'd expect from him. In the end, I loved it and was happy with how it came out. Getting tattooed by Oliver is as great as you'd expect. I had just gotten my shin done by Scott the week before and mentioned in our emails; Oliver came barging in yelling, "Lemme see that Scott tat!" right off the bat. After we were done, he actually took his shirt off and showed me a ton of his tattoos from Scott, Trevino, Rassier, Stell, etc. So fucking awesome.
The torch moth was done by Keith Reed at X-Treme in West Chester, PA shortly after they moved to their new location. This was a "thank you" tattoo for helping them move. Keith is the best. Just an every day, no-bullshit, hard-working tattooer. Without him, I wouldn't know shit about tattoos.
Not the best pic in the world, but @Dan and I were chatting back and forth and I realized I should probably upload em. Once that Grez knee you can see half done gets finished, I'll hit up the squidpants thread.

What a handsome boy, @Devious6.
@Dan, do it! Let's see a photo of him!
Here's a bigger photo. I like how it looks on the full leg with my Ganesha.

And here's my tattoo done in the last day of the convention, yesterday, by Florin Orga.
My first neo traditional and i love it so much!
It's my cat who likes to bite, so we reinforced the theme :D

Video also here.

Here frands:
Feeling pretty tattoo-flu-y, but I have a steak on the way, and then it's time to drink every water and sleep every sleep. So happy that we finished the areas that were the most painful for me during lining, though.

Couldn't be happier.

Hello again thread. Here's my latest tattoo done yesterday at a convention by Radu Rusu.
I really love the look of b&g tattoos and can't wait for this one to heal. I really like it :)

Finished this one up Saturday!  (I hope the Instagram linky thing works...first time I've tried it this way)
 
 

Finished my crane arm with Yutaro at Seven Doors Tattoo in London today. Everyone in the shop is super nice, highly recommended! I'll miss going, but will try to have a bit of a break from getting tattooed...for now...

Got this one shot done by Chad Koeplinger today! The chest was way more painful than I thought it would be!
 

So, this turned out way better than I could have expected. Got it finished in two sessions with the second one at Allstar Ink in Limerick, Ireland. Chris Stuart was guesting there for a day prior to the London convention so I was lucky enough to grab the spot.


A great experience again. I couldn't speak highly enough of Chris and the atmosphere was enhanced with the liked of Nagle, Peck, Topper, Noble, Arment all working there on the same day.


Anyway, I'll let the pic do the talking ?





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Lil' anchor by Josh Henderson

Here are my yokai made by Dave Cummings. Love them so much. 
@a_beukeveld your hannya is gorgeous but that's no surprise! I bet it's already healing super well!
I also got a great little skunk from Nick Colella!
 

I posted an update in the Initiation forum, but realized it isn't as widely seen. Here is a condensed version:
Session 3 on the dragon sleeve is done. I went in thinking we would color it in and I'd be done or nearly done. Nope! 5.25 hours of green and red. In the ditch. Ouch.
April:

May:

Last week:

I'm very happy with it so far, but dying to get the final touches of detail into the dragon.
I count 120 cherry blossom pedals all the way around. Given that 2 min each average is four hours, I'm doubting we will even finish next time.

Small intentionally blurry pic of my new tattoo (to match his madness :p), but i'm so excited! Will come back when i have good shop pictures.

So I wasn't expecting another large scale piece. But Steve Byrne loved my basic idea, and I DID specifically tell him, apparently, quote "go nuts". 
I am a wreck this morning kids.

Link to video: 
 
 

Haven't posted in quite a while so i'll update you all on a couple of new(ish) additions.
First up is from the Bristol tattoo convention in June, done by Stewart Robson:

And this one i got a couple of days ago from Marcos Attwood at Broad Street Studio, in Bath

Not particularly great photos of either one but i'm sure you get the idea

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traveled to Boston and back today to get this toad from Todd Noble - also had beers with @polliwog and @BrianH - pleasure to meet you both thanks for stopping by for that LST meetup

by Robert Ryan in Asbury Park, NJ
spur of the moment walk in :)

Most recent acquisition. From @helfire in Newquay, Cornwall. Little birthday treat for myself. Next to the first tattoo I ever did! 

I've been busy recently! First up I got this really cute cat and umbrella from Wendy Pham at Brighton Tattoo convention. I've been after this piece of flash for years so happy he's now mine! 
Next up (and also at Brighton), I got the side of my knee done by  Jody Dawber. This was the most painful tattoo I have ever got. I was whimpering like a baby (and I usually never make a fuss). I had to dig deep to get through it! Thank god she's fast.  
And last but not least, my latest addition (again on the side of the knee) from my super talented co-worker Lucy O Connell. Had my eye on this babe for well over a year, so happy to finally give her a home. 

You best avoid it then. 
I get the idea that a lot of people aren't digging the style of my Cash tattoo, and that's OK, of course. What I wanted was a simplified, stylized portrait with an American traditional vibe. I think he was successful.
I still want Chris Jones to do a photo-realistic portrait of of Cash one of these days 
   

Wow, looks like everyone's been getting awesome tattoos. Good stuff guys.
Got this tiger yesterday from Kike Castillo. Excuse the picture.

Here is my latest done on my birthday by Yushi while guesting in Seattle and under the needle great guy and awesome experience lines by machine and colored by tebori.
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Progress with Chelsea Kotzur... color next.