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I've been holding out on posting pics online of my Shaolin backpiece progress. But now the 'blackground' is just about complete and the time felt right to share my progress. This is 5 sessions deep, about 19hrs and we are getting some wicked momentum. Tattoo is being made by Steve Batt in Edmonton, AB.
Thank you all for your LST kinship through this experience!

My Raijin and Kirin by Dave Cummings at PSC, in Montreal. It's all don except for some background to tie in my rock of ages below it. Stokes.

Got the peony on the inside done last night. The color is more like the first picture. That was the last part of the cover up. I have two more appointments to do who knows what. Expand the peony/water theme across the top of my back and around the frog that's back there, and add to the cherry blossoms on the other side, peonies and other flowers and wind bars. Whatever we figure out. He also added a little white around some of the cherry blossoms and outlined the blue peony again in some spots.

It's been a while, but I just recently got back to reading the forum and looking at what other people are posting as far as new work. By way of jumping back in, it seemed like posting what I've been up to since I last participated in this thread is the right way to go.
This might be a bit of a long one. Sorry.
Sometimes you're in New Orleans. Sometimes you end up with a butterfly. Brent at Uptown Tattoo did this one:

Jake Miller from Cathedral Tattoo in Salt Lake did this little ditch guy for me:

I did a bit of a run of appointments at Great Lakes Tattoo. Erik did this one:

Nick did this one:

And Matt did this one on my calf:

Javier Rodriguez at LTW in Barcelona made this crazy tiger head for me:

John Raftery, who is also at Cathedral in Salt Lake now, did this snake while he was still in New York at Fun City:

Ben Haft at Fun City did the tops of both of my thighs with a sinking ship and a rose of no man's land:


And finally, Mike Suarez at Hand of Glory in Brooklyn was able to squeeze me in on Saturday and do this on my shin:

I picked up a few little bits of filler here and there, too.
Next up is getting my left knee done, I think. All of this has really just motivated me to start thinking about back/chestpieces.
Further down the rabbit hole.

Had my 2nd session with Thomas Hooper yesterday. Mostly dot shading and mostly sat okay for it. Much easier than the line work during our first session.

The latest addition to my Simpsons in Space leg sleeve. Work was done by Rev. J.R. out of Vicious Ink in Rochester Hills Michigan.

I am training to climb Mt. Rainier at the end of August. It's a three day climb.
It's kicking my ass! It is also severely cutting into my forum-browsing and tattoo-getting time, the latter of which is probably the saddest thing.

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This is my frontpiece by Marius Meyer. We finished it about a year ago. Two sessions and a total of seven hours if I remember correctly.

Thanks for looking. In progress neo-traditionalish Japanese sleeve. Done by Shawn VanOven at the Shamens Den Binghampton NY.

Oh boy. It's times like this I miss HatchettJack. :cool:

Javier Betancourt. The whip is amazing.

just got this hand/knife done on saturday on the 'ol thigh, studio city tattoo in Los Angeles

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I think Iain Mullen does some of the best devils around. Straight up gnarly and evil looking. I've got a Judas wearing a hanyaesque devils mask on the side of my leg, by Iain.


Tattoo was done in two hours, boom!

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

love both of these
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Thank you. I couldn't find any pictures of the flash or anything but i'll take your word for it.
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And here is mine from Saturday.

By Craig Boxcar Chazen

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

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

Whenever I think of devil/demon tattoos, the first person that comes to mind is Derek Noble. Don't think it gets much better when it comes to the demonic stuff.
And like a couple people have already said, as badass as they look, I don't think I could properly rock something like that. But they do make for some badass tattoos.

Mine from Marc Nava (pic from his Instagram)

That big torso devil from Theo Mindell is on me! We have finished everything now except the last bit of fire/flames. Next/Last appt coming up in April to kill the beast.

Post your devils/demons/etc!
Planning to get one from Craig Boxcar Chazen next week, but for now here are some of my favorites.
Luke Jinks


Theo Mindell


Chris Marchetto


Boxcar

Super stoked that I finally got tattooed by Eddy Deutsche!

Just finished with the captain america coverup on my left arm. The pic was right after, so a little swollen and still a little bleeding, but anyway.....

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Little filler done by Mike Rubendall at Kingsave