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these are my little devils, first one is by Ben Fraser and the dirty hot stuff by Mando Rascon.

Got this panther/rose from Juan Puente a few weeks ago. photo by Juan that day.

Here is the piece I just got in Springfield, Oregon at the Evergreen Tattoo Invitational. It's not quite finished but will get it's final touches in Vegas in a couple weeks. It's a collaboration piece done by Christian Buckingham and Dwight Bulb who both work out of Revolt in Vegas. Christian did the black and gray realism of Archangel Gabriel and Dwight did the Neo Traditional Jasmine flowers. Ended up sitting for almost 11hr over 2 days and had a blast! It was my first convention and was such a great setting to get a tattoo. Had originally scheduled with Christian who did my first 2 tattoos but when he asked if I had any interest in doing a collaboration with Dwight I felt honored and jumped at the opportunity. I'm amazed at how nicely the Neo Traditional works with the Realism and it really does frame out the angel is such a stunning way....basically two great tattoos in and of themselves. Dwight did all of the flowers freehand and they fit my arm so perfectly. In June this sleeve will be continued onto my lower arm in some way. I want to have a cavern with a devil and maybe some dead trees and/or wilted flowers...?? The art isn't decided yet but will be a Heaven and Hell sleeve basically. Will have Christian and Dwight collaborate on the lower half too so that it carries well. Hard to get all of the piece in one pic but will get some nicer pics after the work is done and it's healed. I'm so completely stoked about this tattoo and feel like I got such a great one for it being my 3rd piece.

Hey guys...I'm not on the boards too much lately because frankly, I'm kind of tired of even thinking about tattoos at the moment. This current project I'm working on is the most grueling yet. Once I finish this piece, I think I'll go back to traditional one shots on my arms, because this thing is burning me out. Anyway, I met with Sam Warren recently to work on doing some coloring (so far we've done one for lining, one for black and gray shading, and now one for color). One more session to go next month to finish coloring and maybe do some touching up. Sorry the pic is horrible but have you ever tried taking a picture of your own thigh? It ain't easy.

Here's some close ups of the key components:

A little twist on a classic. Picked from the incredibly twisted, but amazing, sketch book of Matt Kerley.

deified my shin a bit with Eddy Deutsche on friday, been waiting for this one a while, stoked! What a great dude Eddy is, and totally mesmerizing to watch him work.

Healed Ryuzu Kannon by Trevor Mcstay at Dynamic Tattoo.

Quick one from Nate Hudak while he was visiting my friends shop down the road.

Finished today the skull and some minor details. I love it, it really makes the Tofi eye part that was bland and I didnt like pop more now :)
He also gave me an original painting of his which is sick (pic below)
The Japanese artist at the shop was doing a sleeve, super clean work and he ended giving me an original of one of his paintings(pic below), so had a great day :)
Sorry for the glare from my phone.
Video of completed leg by Mrdist!





The original picture Henry gave me :)

The original picture Enzo gave me :)

Healed Ryuzu Kannon by Trevor Mcstay at Dynamic Tattoo.

Healed Ryuzu Kannon by Trevor Mcstay at Dynamic Tattoo.

Healed Ryuzu Kannon by Trevor Mcstay at Dynamic Tattoo.

Healed Ryuzu Kannon by Trevor Mcstay at Dynamic Tattoo.

Healed Ryuzu Kannon by Trevor Mcstay at Dynamic Tattoo.

Healed Ryuzu Kannon by Trevor Mcstay at Dynamic Tattoo.

Healed Ryuzu Kannon by Trevor Mcstay at Dynamic Tattoo.

Healed Ryuzu Kannon by Trevor Mcstay at Dynamic Tattoo.

Healed Ryuzu Kannon by Trevor Mcstay at Dynamic Tattoo.

Healed Ryuzu Kannon by Trevor Mcstay at Dynamic Tattoo.

I received my dragon tattoo December 2014 and have not been happier with any tattoo that I have received. Yes the sanitation of the instruments were a bit iffy but I went there for one reason and nothing held me back. Will I go back? Yes. I'm hoping he is still tattooing when I get back. Tattoo royalty at its finest

@tc3500 awesome!!!

SO Many Fantastic pieces being posted!!
Here is my latest (and second, lol) tattoo. It was done by Christian Buckingham at Revolt in Las Vegas last week. It's on the right side of my chest and took about 4hr.
The idea was basically a war style triceratops and I asked for it to be tough looking.....the rest was left up to the artist and I couldn't be more stoked with the results!
This picture is a quick cell phone pic from the day the piece was completed, maybe will upload another of the healed result in several weeks.

I have tried to get Steve Moore to tattoo me for 3-4 years now. Last year, he finally emailed me back and accepted my project for a full back piece.
Steve Moore is absolutely a professional. He researched tons for this piece. He looked at photographs of monkeys, martial artists, and other reference pictures. He mentioned that he debated about how to put the orientation of the Monkey King's foot and used a martial artist's monkey style to duplicate it. I think it looks amazing and the details on it just blew me away. I love how Steve put our collaboration ideas together.
Anyways, here's the drawing

We finished up the outline on Saturday for my Monkey King. I have about 48 hours of tattooing under my belt so far and this outline session was only 3 hours, but the most uncomfortable and painful 3 hours yet! I've read a lot on full backs and apparently they can be quite sharp, but I had a hard time in quite a few spots. For example, often I can keep my breathing and just flow through the pain, but this session had me clenching my jaw, face and just suffering. Steven started chatting with me and it really helped distract me.
After three hours of outlining



Got my next session in February. Dreading it a bit, but also very excited haha

Had a cool session with Eddy Deutsche and received this Goldfish, powered by a Kappa pilot. My input was: weird, eastern influence, and I threw out a bunch of classic imagery.

Just set up an appointment for Mike Wilson to start my front in March. Now for the longest 2 months ever...
If anyone has any advice for navigating Jacksonville, could you help me out in this thread?
http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/general-tattoo-discussion/2932-inksmith-rogers.html