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Since my backpiece was posted on instagram I will re-post it here; although the background has not been started.
Done by Jill Bonny at State of Grace. The pics were taken from instagram. I may post better pics when healed. (Birds are old tattoos)

Not one on myself, but one I put on a good friend recently. He came home for New Year's to surprise his family, and drove three hours to surprise my fiancée before she went home to Ireland. I was the only one who knew of his plans, and thankfully he avoided all the snow issues. Inside of the knee/thigh... or the No Fun Zone.

3.5 hours in the chair last nite at Studio 69 on Long Island, NY. The artist is Gina Sherry.

Marcus Kuhn is in town guesting and he lat me snap a pic of a back piece that he's starting tomorrow. He granted me permission to post...

My back. Finished with Chris O'Donnell. Couldn't be more stoked on it.

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!

All-time favorite is on a friend of mine, mostly because of how silly it is. What do gorillas think about? Bananas, duh. By Drew Rash.

Additionally, here are three I've seen on Instagram recently that I've loved.
Another Tim Hendricks. Squeezing a readable ROA on there blows my mind.

Grez. Does it get better than classic roses on a hand?

Grime. And to totally tweak out the classic rose, a rose skull morph.

this is my favorite hand tattoo ever. Love how the sleeve transitions flawlessly onto the top of the hand.
This is just a random picture I saw from reddit that I saved on my computer. I don't know who did this or where it was done.

I waited a long time to have my hands done. I guess it helps that my municipal job is outdoors and 90% of the time I have to wear gloves due to safety rules.

just a little Indian action and tiger from Kemer here at Superfly tattoos in Leon Mexico

Pure awesomeness ! Memoir is such a great shop I think if I won the lottery the first thing I would do , would be to book a flight to see Shawn Barber his work is just mind-blowing.
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Got my wife to take some photos of my latest tattoo all healed. The photos are a bit glarey cos of the flash. Tibetan Skull by Ema Sweeney at Custom Inc .

Healed from the London Tattoo Convention - by Chriss Dettmer

going to la to finish this with bryan burk in a couple weeks. and i just booked a flight to austin in february emailed steve byrne! sorry if the pictures big

Those are amazing! I love the one with the wolf.
Here's one that's in progress. He told me I could do whatever I wanted. I decided on a girl head...of sorts.

by Alix Ge https://www.facebook.com/alixgp

El Carlo Aloha Tattoo Spain

That's one of the craziest SOCKS I've seen!!

Saw this on their Facebook:
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I got some blackberries, leaves, branches, and another rose added to my arm yesterday (Kim Saigh at Memoir).

My first is from my buddy who is an apprentice. Second is from Craig Brown at Historic Tattoo in Portland. And I just got this from Beau Brady at State of Grace in San Jose.

That's the only photo I have uploaded at the moment.
Jill Bonny at State of Grace. I'm counting down the days!

A baku, and I'm just gonna let her do her thing with the rest of the arm.

How's it going, everyone?
I'm Josh, from just outside of San Jose. I'm not sure what makes a good introduction post, so this will have to do.
I got my first tattoo almost 3 months ago after 7 years of talk. I've always liked tattoos, but I never could quite figure out what it was that I liked about them. One of my good friends started his apprenticeship at a local shop and I think that helped refined my taste. After I got settled in at my new job I decided to commit to it. I get my fourth tattoo this weekend, and start my sleeve in two weeks!
It's awesome living in the Bay Area and being around so many great artists. I'm stoked to start my collection.
I'm also into stand-up comedy and cool clothes.
Cheers!

I posted this in my intro thread, but I wanna partake in the fun over here!

by Beau Brady

Heres a lady head I made. Super fun.

Got to squeeze in an appointment with Beau Brady before he left town.
Here are the results (picture stolen from his IG)