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Some of yesterday's work, on the top parrot and bamboo from original Ed Hardy acetate. Juan Arreguin, my artist, got it from Nervio who worked in San Francisco for a long time.
The next two were taken from Percy Water's book, done by Kemer Rodriguez.
Done at Superfly Tattoo in Leon, Mexico.

Had a massive 20 min session today. Added some more Germanic Runes.

Got this little fella from the very nice jason Ochoa at Greenpoint tattoo co.off to Smith St next! Pic pilfered from his IG because my phone is a potato.

3rd session done, 3-4 more to go to finish the top half and start/finish the bottom half:

got this beauty from nick oaks on his visit in toronto @ the okey doke

beyond happy with the turn out

One more session to go and filling in the blank spot underneath.

Really? A beautiful back and grey sleeve won this summer, and several of the most active posters here get mostly or exclusively black and grey tattoos, though not necessarily in the style of the Jun Cha sleeve above. There's a slant towards color traditional, but to say that the forum has "little appreciation for B&G" doesn't seem right - there are definitely folks on here who are knowledgeable about Chicano tattooing, among other styles. There is a huge repository of info. on different traditions here if you dig around! Not trying to pick a fight, just scratching my head a bit.

Congrats, Bunny! I imagine finally getting that tattoo after seven years of waiting is a very satisfying feeling.
Greg and I didn't get to two tattoos last night, since we got an unavoidable late start. We did go with the creepy Lo Pan hand holding a dragon that we were joking about the last time I was there. It's pretty much all a result of talking about Big Trouble in Little China with he and his coworker when I was the last one in the shop on my last appointment.

Well.....I went to Virginia Beach the Thursday night before the Richmond Tattoo show and woke up Friday morning to go to Ancient Art Tattoo (VaBch) to be tattooed by Scott Sterling!
What was going to be a small banger to palm size tattoo.....turned into this........
Due to a lot of weight loss....I do have a roll on my side.....Scott used the fact that I have this and made it so the mouth opens and closes.....LMAO!
Very fresh photos....sorry the photos isn't better!

Jun Cha. Unfinished, ran out of time and had to run to the airport. 16 hour session.

Reh, edited with better size & lost the likes.

Tim Lehi oneshot

I got my first-ever hand-poked tattoo last night from our own @cltattooing:

It's also my first scorpion. Let's be honest: I needed one.

Here we go, done by Darcy Nutt at the RVA convention this weekend.
Couldn't have asked for a better experience, she is top class in every way possible!
There's some weird shadows and lighting in the pics, cause they do the piece no justice at all.

Colour!
Pic pinched from Clare's instagram as I am sore, having a beer and don't have anyone at home to help me take pics yet.
Have another appointment in two weeks to add on. We are doing a peony on inner bicep (couldn't resist with all the peony envy going on right now) which will wrap around and fix up the gap in her arm, mallard duck and fox with fruithat. Unsure if we will add on piece by piece or use the next session to get everything else lined.

This is a picture from right after it was finished a few years back.

Done by Hugues Lauzier at Imago in Montreal.

That's pretty much on the money @Cork.
Slammed my rear 11", went back to 16" bars instead of drag bars, wrapped my pipe today.
Then ripped her through the hills.
Good

Love that chrysthanemum @mmikaoj who did that chestpiece man?

Got the ladyhead by Max Kuhn yesterday!

Not the best pic. It wraps a bit!

Got this little fella from the very nice jason Ochoa at Greenpoint tattoo co.off to Smith St next! Pic pilfered from his IG because my phone is a potato.

Got this little fella from the very nice jason Ochoa at Greenpoint tattoo co.off to Smith St next! Pic pilfered from his IG because my phone is a potato.

@Cork - nearly done - 3-4 sessions and he wants it done by the end of the year. FML. With much trepidation, I'm booked every other Friday through Jan 2. Through the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. I think it's quite insane, but we have a dive vacation at the end of Jan and he feels very strongly about not going more than 3ish weeks between sessions. UGH! I think I'll be burning some sick days trying to stay healthy.
Red and irritated at the top, and some of the marker is showing through. We have to fade out the sides around my ribs (joy) and a few more little critters below my waist to come.
Aside from final whites and highlights most of this is done, EXCEPT for the eagle rays in the very center. It's pretty obvious they are still the first coat of paint. Those eagle rays were the reason I wanted a tattoo - I may have described this elsewhere, but that was a picture I took very early one morning right off the dive boat, and their beauty and strength I wanted to capture with a tattoo on my back. (Every critter here is a picture I took scuba diving and my tattoo artist created the scene from my photographs.)
So, in the tradition of bringing the dragon to life by filling in the eyes last, we are saving the eagle rays until the end to bring this around full circle and bring the ocean scene to life.

Got this little fella from the very nice jason Ochoa at Greenpoint tattoo co.off to Smith St next! Pic pilfered from his IG because my phone is a potato.

Got this little fella from the very nice jason Ochoa at Greenpoint tattoo co.off to Smith St next! Pic pilfered from his IG because my phone is a potato.

Got this little fella from the very nice jason Ochoa at Greenpoint tattoo co.off to Smith St next! Pic pilfered from his IG because my phone is a potato.

Got this from Timothy Hoyer last month. Really stoked about getting a tattoo from one of my absolute favorite tattooers.