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Rich Hadley at Rain City in Manchester has done some nice ones recently. Check out his instagram.
I'm at work so can't get the links right now!

Few more, had a try at coffee staining on the boxer due to a mistake with some yellow ink.

todays/yesterdays sheet
NSFW i guess?

one from today

My first tattoo from my mentor...took advantage of a cancellation!

Been working on this Bert Grimm re-paint for a week or so. It's something like 30x22 or just less as the paper is a weird size.
Hope you guys like it!

Been working on this Bert Grimm re-paint for a week or so. It's something like 30x22 or just less as the paper is a weird size.
Hope you guys like it!

So because people seem stoked on this painting ill be doing a PRE ORDER ONLY run of prints of this painting.

They'll be on high quality paper and full size.
£50 for collection In the UK (Stowmarket, Suffolk)
£60 with UK postage and £66 with worldwide postage.
PayPal payment AS GIFT to
[email protected]
With your address please
Please reblog or spread the word Thankyou :)

A couple I've done for trades over the last couple of days. Another small one to do then i've got another big one to attempt!

Been working on this Bert Grimm re-paint for a week or so. It's something like 30x22 or just less as the paper is a weird size.
Hope you guys like it!

Finished this today as a gift may make prints

Been working on this Bert Grimm re-paint for a week or so. It's something like 30x22 or just less as the paper is a weird size.
Hope you guys like it!

Been working on this Bert Grimm re-paint for a week or so. It's something like 30x22 or just less as the paper is a weird size.
Hope you guys like it!

Been working on this Bert Grimm re-paint for a week or so. It's something like 30x22 or just less as the paper is a weird size.
Hope you guys like it!

A couple I've done for trades over the last couple of days. Another small one to do then i've got another big one to attempt!

One more trade done. Sorry for the painting overload this week!

One more trade done. Sorry for the painting overload this week!

Been working on this Bert Grimm re-paint for a week or so. It's something like 30x22 or just less as the paper is a weird size.
Hope you guys like it!

Fisherman I attempted to paint.

One more trade done. Sorry for the painting overload this week!

Been working on this Bert Grimm re-paint for a week or so. It's something like 30x22 or just less as the paper is a weird size.
Hope you guys like it!

Rodeo Fett

that stiple shading stuff looks good if you use it in moderation, but I don't see why you wouldn't want a whole tattoo comprised of it, and why a wonky badly drawn design somehow becomes bad ass when it is shaded in that manner.
Also I would agree that you have to try sometimes to get tattooed. Even a simple email may not always cut it. Call the shop, be polite to the help and just ask what the situation is, since getting tattooed by him means you are going to travel anyway, maybe their is a convention or something that you could book into, or if you can squeeze your way on the cancellation list that could work too.

I agree with a lot of this, and a lot of what I find uninteresting with everybody trying to do this "style" now is that it becomes too much about putting a certain technique up on a pedestal instead of using that technique, and many others besides, to create a powerful tattoo. It's the same thing with these guys I see on Instagram who are all about doing super whipshaded traditional. Technique is there to serve the art, not the other way around.
And that said, you'll never get tattooed by somebody if you don't ask them because they "seem" busy.

Daniel Albrigo what about this guy?
Everyone and their mother in trying to dotwork or mandalas or whatever you want to call them, but I think the thing that most people miss is that Thomas Hoopers work is a lot more than a bunch of dots, lots of strong imagery, with the gemotric stuff in the background, I think it's that imagination and creativity and knack for layout and flow that set him, and the few others that do that style well , apart from people who are just doing a bunch of geometric shapes on people
That being said it is very frustrating when someone you want to get tattooed by is virtually unavailable. There are hundreds of people who do good traditional, Japanese, portrait work, not so much in this realm, but that doesn't mean there aren't people out there that are flying under the radar. I would keep trying to book with hooper, but keep your eye out as well.