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The general public......and the tattoo community are two separate concepts.
I don't try and push people around with what they should and shouldn't get, I'm not a social worker...... But I do try to present them with options when I can.
I still give em the haircut they ask for....... I just try and comb it real nice for em.

Some people look cool as fuck with bad tattoos - not talking about giant penis-koi , but you know what I mean

Got something from Scott Sylvia yesterday. I'll post a picture in a few.

picked this up yesterday from Danielle Rose, so happy with it

Had a ton of fun at the Lowbrow Tattoo Convention in Killeen this weekend. Met a lot of great people and got some cool tattoos.

Devil Head from James Clements

Panthgle from James Yocum

Tex Avery Whistlin' Wolf from Paco Cendon (Won tattoo of the day on Sat!)
I'm happy but I can barely walk today.

Getting my leg filled in by Kore Flatmo. I know it's been said many times, but visiting Plurabella is such a freaking great experience. Still have the back of the thigh and the shin to do, but that's all I could take. Day 2 we just worked more on the cover up he's doing on my arm. I dont have any good pictures of that yet.

Got this today from Nick Colella at Great Lakes Tattoo
I can't say enough nice things about him!!
And I'm beyond stoked on my dragon! Completely smitten with the thing! :)
(slurped from Nick's instagram)
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Got this today from Nick Colella at Great Lakes Tattoo
I can't say enough nice things about him!!
And I'm beyond stoked on my dragon! Completely smitten with the thing! :)
(slurped from Nick's instagram)
Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2

Got this today from Nick Colella at Great Lakes Tattoo
I can't say enough nice things about him!!
And I'm beyond stoked on my dragon! Completely smitten with the thing! :)
(slurped from Nick's instagram)
Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2

Got this today from Nick Colella at Great Lakes Tattoo
I can't say enough nice things about him!!
And I'm beyond stoked on my dragon! Completely smitten with the thing! :)
(slurped from Nick's instagram)
Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2

I crossed 3 things off my bucket list last week :)
Had a great time in Chicago, learned SO MUCH at my national conference, and came home with a dragon on my thigh :)

I crossed 3 things off my bucket list last week :)
Had a great time in Chicago, learned SO MUCH at my national conference, and came home with a dragon on my thigh :)

Awww! C'mon!! You're no fun anymore :p
Seriously, that's fantastic!!
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I missed you around here @Brock Varty
(I have to admit, I've been more scarce lately too.)
It's good to see you!!

I crossed 3 things off my bucket list last week :)
Had a great time in Chicago, learned SO MUCH at my national conference, and came home with a dragon on my thigh :)

I crossed 3 things off my bucket list last week :)
Had a great time in Chicago, learned SO MUCH at my national conference, and came home with a dragon on my thigh :)

@TrixieFaux that's gorgeous!!

This is what went on yesterday at Memoir w/Kim on my raven/roses/jewels arm. I am in love with it!

Sorry to be off topic with the way this thread turned out but regardless of any "witchy witchy" (whatever that means) or other current tattoo trends. Sometimes we gotta take it back and look at why?...
Not just why you got a particular tattoo but why certain symbols are grouped together in the first place.
Female figures and the moon make more sense than most associated designs. - As a side note, Diana worship became very popular in Europe in the early 19th century as part of the revival of earlier religious ideas by the middle classes (who had more time on their hands, probably because of the Industrial Revolution) which led to more works of art, visual, written and performed that included these ideas and symbols. These are often the very works that modern tattooers appropriate.
Remember that some tattooer, somewhere knew this when they included a moon in a design of a lady head. (or they took it from an illustration by someone who knew.) Then it was imitated because it looked cool or resonated in some way.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I strongly believe it's a tattooers job to understand the mechanism of symbols and apply them to create relationships that have a deeper value than just looking cool. There's nothing wrong with looking cool and often I don't bore my clients with a lecture about the historical connections with the symbols I include. I just try to make their tattoo look cool. Hopefully one day they will discover the meanings and connections behind the symbols and realise it makes the design slightly richer.
Sorry to derail yet another thread with a boring self-righteous rant...

Operation Double Dobleman Thighs is now complete:

Between this and my Pharaoh's Horses, I couldn't be happier. (No jokes about what's actually between this and the horses, please.)

Put this up the other day in the full back piece thread and forgot to put it over here. Last session in for 2013 and starting back up in January. All work being done by Rodrigo Melo at Northstar Tattoo NYC.



Mike

Beautiful work!! I really like his work and his book is a good one. @Iwar and I actually talked about him a couple of days ago. Looking forward to follow the progress on your back!

Great tattoo from a great shop. I hope you enjoy Chicago. I was there for the first time this August and loved every minute. So much to see and do.

There you are! @Brock Varty

Coming out of LST hibernation to say "I approve of this tattoo".

What @Wilhell said