Brock Varty

Update: I still look like Burt Reynolds with a better mustache.

Perfectly okay to bump old threads. some good ones get forgotten in time and it is always appreciated when someone finds them and brings them out of the depths of LST!

Perfectly okay to bump old threads. some good ones get forgotten in time and it is always appreciated when someone finds them and brings them out of the depths of LST!

Update: I still look like Burt Reynolds with a better mustache.

I just made my appointment to get my life-ruining hand tattoos from Thomas Hooper.
It's gonna be way cool.

Actually, I also just booked with Ron Henry Wells for February at the Philly convention. He's going to be filling in the gap between my Grez and Scott Sylvia pieces. I can't wait.

Love these photos! Here's mine, taken around Halloween time.

Pop out the lens and put your penile unit in the hole. In the same line as a "skull fuck". Except in a skull fuck, you need to remove the eye.

I don't have any normal pictures of me right now. So with great shame, I give you me in my "shop uniform"...
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I don't have any normal pictures of me right now. So with great shame, I give you me in my "shop uniform"...

You can picture me as Burt Reynolds with a better mustache until I can get some pictures up.

Really beautiful! Congrats on that awesome work!

Wow...there is even some tribal...

@hogg
@slayer9019
I didn't say anything out of respect for the guys at the shop and because it isn't something that I was ready to advertise. Right now I just work there and do anything that anyone wants me to. I am basically the shop bitch. The understanding with everyone is that if they feel comfortable with me and feel like I have earned being there, they may offer me an apprenticeship. I don't know how far off that is, nor do I care. I do everything I can to help everyone who walks in and everyone who works there. Right now, the opportunity to learn to tattoo is secondary and my responsibility to the guys at the shop and the customers is first. I intend to protect and cherish the tattoo world I have come to love. I believe the way to do that is not to expect handouts or free information. Everything is earned and I want to earn anything I get.

@hogg
@slayer9019
I didn't say anything out of respect for the guys at the shop and because it isn't something that I was ready to advertise. Right now I just work there and do anything that anyone wants me to. I am basically the shop bitch. The understanding with everyone is that if they feel comfortable with me and feel like I have earned being there, they may offer me an apprenticeship. I don't know how far off that is, nor do I care. I do everything I can to help everyone who walks in and everyone who works there. Right now, the opportunity to learn to tattoo is secondary and my responsibility to the guys at the shop and the customers is first. I intend to protect and cherish the tattoo world I have come to love. I believe the way to do that is not to expect handouts or free information. Everything is earned and I want to earn anything I get.

Really beautiful! Congrats on that awesome work!

@hogg @CultExciter I am proud to own that arm! haha The daruma on my hand and some additional maple leaves don't appear in the picture here.

Such a beautiful shop and wonderful tattoo family.
I really felt right at home. I got tattooed and did a couple of small tattoos there too.
I would say it is one of the nicest shops that i've ever seen - that looks like what I think a tattoo shop should look like.

Now that the dust has settled and things are getting back to normalcy in mine and my family's life and the lives of the crew at Great Lakes Tattoo I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their support of not only myself but the crew and ultimately Great Lakes Tattoo itself.
It has been an amazing last few months and the support and acknowledgment of the shop has been overwhelming and very humbling. The shop is something that is a part of all of us who walk through its door everyday. It's shows the dedication of not only myself and crew but the behind the scenes dedication of my wife and family.
We invite everyone to come through the shop either to get tattooed or just to see it. We are very proud of it.
Thank you.
Nick Colella
Great Lakes Tattoo

Popped into The Pearl this morning to catch a session with Tim Pausinger before he left for the Xmas holidays. He basically finished my chest piece. In January we'll link the shoulders and arms to it. He is also going to do some spider webbing between the tattoo and the bottom of my pecs.
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A picture taken after last sitting, by Matt Shamah

Just for reference folks, Tim is my mentor. The highest caliber of friend and tattooer.

@hogg @CultExciter I am proud to own that arm! haha The daruma on my hand and some additional maple leaves don't appear in the picture here.

I do believe that is on our own @Brock Varty

Welcome, Tim! That koi/hannya sleeve is beautiful.

Just for reference folks, Tim is my mentor. The highest caliber of friend and tattooer.