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I found this today. Does anyone know about it or have you ever seen it? I want to take it to my artist and have him do his own thing with it. Any thoughts?

Had some work done Friday 07-17 :cool: Getting there !!

This is what I did yesterday with Jereme Galloway at Time and Tide in Bloomington, IN.

Got this from Greg Christian at Tattoo Faction about a month ago

and these from Tomas Garcia at Old Soul last weekend.


all stolen from their IGs @Gregchristian4130 and @tomas_garcia
I used to complain about not being in a great tattoo city like NYC, but being a 2 hour drive from cleveland and pittsburgh isn't really too bad.

Me and my girlfriend got tattooed yesterday by Marcus Kuhn while he's guesting in Paris at Laura Satana's shop!

Freddy Corbin put my son's name on me last night. Simple, tasteful, and just right. I'm so happy with it.

Started mine yesterday evening with Kelly Edwards. It was amazing... and much more painful than I anticipated, and he tattooed for something like 5 hours with only a short break. I was actually genuinely surprised at how hard it was. Took my breath away more than once. He tattoos fast and hard, and I am humbled and proud to even be wearing this line work, sat like a rock. Next appointment will be in August for scales on the rattlesnake and starting to shade.

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Oh yeah, and did the left side, or one preferential side, hurt a LOT more than the other?

So this got started today. Kelly Edwards.

Three words for getting all that line work in one sitting: Fuck. That. Shit.
Worth every second of pain though!

He said a couple of sessions ago that he didn't think it needed to be reoutlined, so here's hoping.

@Graeme don't forget the final step.... re-outlining

Since we're sharing progress, here's what we did on mine last week. We have to put the greys in some of the water and then do the details in the faces and the tiger's paws and things like that but we're getting super close to wrapping this up.

@Graeme I really appreciate that because your back is killer. @ironchef I def will, I know you told me to do so before and I honestly forgot.

smooth as eggs @misterJ ! tell rubes, ricky wong says what's up!?

Got some work in Saturday, but life has been crazy. Wanted to post this up. Detailed in the hair, and sank some color into the top oni. The pic makes him look very bright but the colors have cooled off nicely and now have a deep tone to them. We spoke about detailing him up more next session with either a patterned robe or doing more in the body. Either way I'm on board.
EDIT: just to put it in perspective, the horns are colored white that's how red I got
I always love the way the tray looks at the end when all the colors are laid out and all is said and done. I thought this concept would make a really neat print. If there is some rule about not showing these details let me know and I will remove it, but I thought it would be a fun share.
Hope you guys like it, and I have 2 sessions coming up so maybe we can close in on this project.

I'll be there getting tattoo by Henning.
Looking forward to hanging out.

Picked up this cool little fella from Tomas Garcia while he was working a guest spot at Acme Tattoo in Staunton, VA. Tomas is a really cool, humble guy. Do yourself a favor and get tattooed by him if you ever get the opportunity.

Fort Collins was a cool little town. Curtis blazed through our crab-turtle-Ray so I had a ton of time to cruise around.

Girl head and rose from Paul Dobleman:

Already some tough stuff this month, but I'll give it a shot. Here's my arm from Grez at Kings Avenue. All healed up.

Shao Lin Monk backpiece
made by Steve Batt in his private studio in Edmonton, Alberta
32 hours, Dec 2014-Jun 2015

Not this forum's cup o' tea, but here is my foot tattoo done by Matt Jordan from New Zealand. This tattoo was done while filming for an upcoming episode of SullenTV's "Tattoo Collector"

I also got some more work on my back by Jess Yen at Ink n Iron but we didn't get pictures so I'll take some in a few days

Got this little one a couple weeks ago from Paul Dobleman at Spider Murphy's:

Finished up my arm with Grez last month. Here are some healed shots (that I also just put in the contest thread).

Got a namakubi done at a local shop. Sovereign Arms Tattoo in GR, MI. Getting tattooed around the shin hurts a lot more than I thought it would. Got a little shaky..

My frog looks so much better now! I got him originally in 1998 so he was 17...not sure how old that is in frog years but he's way cuter now. He even has freckles!!
I let Dominic pick all the colors, and we discussed where we're going next w/the expansion-I told him he has free reign for design and colors and he was pretty stoked about that.