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Got this earlier today from Jeff P. at Art Work Rebels here in Portland, Ore. Every 23rd they do a half-off flash special, so I picked this one off the wall. Sorry for the shitty cell phone picture, it's the best I could do.

Got this earlier today from Jeff P. at Art Work Rebels here in Portland, Ore. Every 23rd they do a half-off flash special, so I picked this one off the wall. Sorry for the shitty cell phone picture, it's the best I could do.

Walk in style by Wade Hex at Port City Tattoo in Long Beach, CA.
I had no idea what I wanted to get. First thing that popped into my head was "geisha lady head".
What a stacked crew over at Port City. Vastly underrated. I'd love to get tattooed by anyone at that shop... Eric Jones, Tom Moser, Uzi, Jack Mauk, Renan, Wade Hex... heavy hitters.

Here's what I got this friday:

From Cezilia Hjelt. The tiger head is from early 1900's flash that I came across on an exhibition early this year.

At the same time I got this from Joel Albertson, classic Dietzel girl, I've loved this design since I first saw it a couple years ago so I am happy to sport it now.
Both Cezilia and Joel work at Göteborg Classic Tattooing. If you're ever in Gothenburg, this is the place to hit up. Jonas Uggli Nyberg and Henrik Röstberg works there too, so it's a pretty awesome crew.

Got this piece from Chad Koeplinger a couple of weeks ago

Peony from Nathan Kostechko at Will Rise in Los Angeles. Photo from his instagram. Slightly modified from an Ichibay flash book.

The funniest part of my recent trip to NYC was when Mike Rubendall introduced himself to me.
"Hey man, I'm Mike."
I had to stop myself from getting all star struck and saying, "Uh, yeah dude, I know."
I cannot stress enough how everyone at Kings Ave is so completely genuine and polite.

Might as well post this here too even though the shit posted so far has been ridiculous.

Finally got around to getting a descent, healed picture of mine. posted it on IG earlier, it constrained it till you cant see it all. It was done by Paul Pearson at Tried & True Tattoo in Smyrna , Tn

Seeing as this forum is a such a huge collection of excellent tattoos and also a PSA for getting good tattoos and avoiding scratchers, why don't you show him some of the threads on here? I've never been particularly swift about following through on my tattoos, but this forum (along with some other media) definitely helped me avoid doing some stupid shit as well as make me understand some of the not-great aspects of some of my work.

Seeing as this forum is a such a huge collection of excellent tattoos and also a PSA for getting good tattoos and avoiding scratchers, why don't you show him some of the threads on here? I've never been particularly swift about following through on my tattoos, but this forum (along with some other media) definitely helped me avoid doing some stupid shit as well as make me understand some of the not-great aspects of some of my work.

More pictures of tattoos, less being dickheads. Please and thank you.

Why is it a shame that his tattooer copied someone else's style? Anymore, almost all tattooing is evocative of some other persons work.

Got this one from Mr Desa at frith street yesterday. Hope he doesn't mind my lazy ass borrowing the pic from his instagram

New one from Valerie Vargas at Frith St on my calf.

Taking pictures of your own calf is a bit of nightmare!

suddenly, i feel like having a good beer!

I can't get over how good those waves are.

Oh man, didn't realize this was the collaborative back piece! That's awesome, now I'm even more excited to see the future progress.

@ironchef That looks incredible! Is there going to be any background between the dragon and phoenix, or leaving that open?

Updated full back progress pic. Pretty much healed up from my last session. Will be seeing Rubendall again in May to finish shading the back of my left thigh. Probably start some color too!

I've still got one piece of jailhouse, but the rest I covered. I have been going through my pix, and I have some picked out I may post, but I'm going to have to do a lot of cropping and blacking-out. Now, none of these are pix of the tattoos, they are, mostly, pictures of brothers representing, some in prison, some on the street, and you can see tattoos. Some clearly, some not so clearly. If that would be of interest, I'll get some up, but if you really want to see the tattooing plainly, most of them won't interest you.
I tattooed a purple daisy on the lower calf of a fairly notorious sniper/killer from back in the early seventies...

they don't. everyone in norway is totally criminal so they can survive. you see senior citizens mugging tourists during summer and such.
ooor maybe they make enough money so the prices doesn't bother them as much as us others visiting.

Five days is not nearly long enough to consider a tattoo "healed," so it's hard to say exactly how it will look from here. However, after such a short amount of time you're probably seeing a lot of dry skin and scabbing covering the ink, changing the actual color. If you're still unhappy with the color after another few weeks, it may be time to call your artist.

Worked some more on my back yesterday with Mike Rubendall


And then a new one today from Thomas Hooper

I just want to point out it's only 3 days into this thing. It will take a lot to win this thing with what has been posted. We have to take some pride as a community in the level of tattoos our members end up with.