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You should get a cat with a hawk tattoo on it.

terrible photo and taken on the 3rd day of healing but here is my latest by Steve Byrne:

Today's shenanigans in NYC or better referred to as tattoo fan Heaven!
First a stop by Invisible NYC to check in on my friend getting work from Chris Garver:

Then some work on myself by Mike Rubendall at Kings Avenue Tattoo Manhattan (more photos in the back piece thread):

Finally, Chris O'Donnell working on a grim reaper thigh piece at Kings Avenue as well (Grez and Rubendall in the background:

You should get a cat with a hawk tattoo on it.

You should get a cat with a hawk tattoo on it.

You should get a cat with a hawk tattoo on it.

You should get a cat with a hawk tattoo on it.

You should get a cat with a hawk tattoo on it.

You should get a cat with a hawk tattoo on it.

You should get a cat with a hawk tattoo on it.

Might as well give this month a shot too then :o
From Xam at The Family Business, London.

I absolutely love this!

I really dig what Ron Henry Wells has been doing with roses. He explains what he's doing with them on his blog here:

@Wilhell posting his back piece made me curious to look up Marius Meyer. Saw this killer front.

April 8th - Nathan Kostechko (starting my left arm grime inspired sleeve, just lines)
April 13th - Seth Wood (The giant gator on my side is getting some black jammed in for 3 hours)
May 3rd - Seth Wood (some more black in the gator and maybe color)
i am stoked!

It certainly could! I have a butterfly girl in my right ditch (by Chris Brand).

I'm not religious at all, but I have some oddball beliefs about ancient advanced civilizations and religious stories.. I have many crosses, a shiva, baphomet, a swazi, and several mesopotamian and egyptian deities and religious symbols on me, mainly because i feel like ancient symbols have power on their own

I think people just like the imagery. It's powerful. Natives are a reminder of your wilder more human side I guess. Reminds us of a time when hunting and living off the land was the norm, as opposed to the TV pop culture trash that most of the world has been turned into.
I'm into these Navajo or southwestern style Native designs that Chad Keoplinger has been doing. I'm not sure if I'd get one tattooed, but I'd totally consider a small piece if I was around him or knew him.

I'm throwing another old one in because this is fun! Sorry for the gratuitous man-boobs.
Andrew Conner. Harrisonburg, Virginia.

I'm not a tattooer so I can't say either way but I've seen plenty of full armpit tattoos healed and the people all seem fine. As regards to nipples, again I've seen plenty of people with their nipples tattooed and they've been alright. Even if it does fuck up your nipples, does it really matter? I've yet to find a use for mine...

leaving for SF tomorrow to see Grime :D

Well I have a lady head and pin up tattooed on me and women scare the hell out of me in real life...ha ha.
I know what you mean, I have a snake tattoo but don't mind holding them etc, but I'm still unsure of big spiders. Last time at the zoo with my young boys I held all the snakes and there was a taranchula in its box, I syked myself up and asked the lady if I could hold it "no, that ones pretty aggressive" was the reply.
Still have a small spider filler tattoo on my list though.

This is healed up enough to get a reasonable picture of it, so here's the progress on my arm so far. We're about six hours in right now, and my next sitting is in a week and a half. Thomas Hooper did this. Obviously.

Your wish can come true, but don't sleep on it.

That tiger and snake battle rules! I love how huge it is and how it takes up most of your back.
O'Donnell does some of the best tigers in tattooing, in my opinion.