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Was lucky enough to get some work from Chris Conn last night. 1st session, halo and color next time.
Ill try to post a better pic later. By the way.... one of the nicest guys I've ever met.

My buddy jaie came to town so i had him stick this dagger on my shin.

So half sleeve is coming along nicely - foo dog and goldfish recently added. Sleeve by Daniel Innis at the Pearl in Toronto.

Got this from Horimatsu in October. It was a great experience, he is such an awesome dude with some pretty cool stories to tell.
Also I got this cattoo on a caturday so I kind of won the internet that day :D

edit: can't figure out why the picture is all wonky but if one clicks it again for full size it looks like it is supposed to...
edit2: oh, and it's located on the outside of the calf.

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

beyond happy with the turn out

Always good to also look for the source...

I love that little scorpion, @hogg and @cltattooing ! Chill dude.
I feel like you have all already seen this on the 'ole Instagram, but I had the great pleasure of getting a couple of peonies from Brian Kaneko this weekend. It was a great experience to get zapped by such a nice, funny and talented person, and it was also our first time at Adorned, which was also very fun! What a lovely space. Can't wait to go back there, and will definitely be getting more work from Brian!
You can peep the tattoos on his IG here: @truenaturetattoo
I am of course in love with the peonies, which I've been wanting forever! It's such a treat to look down and see them there. They are healing like a dream so far. I have to say, I love this finally tattooing my arms business - soooo much more pleasant than all that back/thighs crap I started with.

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.

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.

little sumtin...for da kids...

Yes, I did......I got the tattoo below from David Bruehl......and I got another piece to my snake (no photo of it) by Mike Fite!
Mike Fite and I have an agreement....
He started a skin tear snake head on me about a year and a half ago sooooo......every time we see each other....he adds
another piece of the snake on my body somewhere as a filler piece....LMAO! :D

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!

Finished another session tonight. Just banged out the stripes. I am so psyched with how the face is coming out. Have black in the tail up top then color hallelujah !
Cork man you should be beyond proud of that thing it's awesome.
Edit: sorry about the sideways pics

It's done. It's actually done. The last session was the worst one I've had to endure. Major touch ups to the wind bars/clouds, double lining, basically every soft spot got hit in one day. By the end I was definitely spent, but so stoked. Dana was very pleased with how this came out, and that makes me happy too. He wants me to show up to the Baltimore or Philly conventions and do the back piece contest.
This took a year and a half, and it was an amazing experience.

Not mine, but great to see Kore Flatmo posting again, it's been close to a year!

Bearded lady from George Archer at the RVA convention yesterday (picture courtesy of George's IG).

I am working on a sleeve. And it would not be complete without "Mom".
Work by Billy Hill (Envy Skin Gallery, Columbus) on 11-15-14.

Hi, here is a healed photo of the hell scene that Tim Lehi did on me last month. He is my favourite tattooer and it was so fun to get this piece from him. I also posted it in this months contest: http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/lst-announcements-contests/6076-november-2014-tattoo-month-contest-page4.html#post105993

The size of the photo might be a bit too big, but I will fix it as soon as I can.

Tapatalk wouldn't let me add the image to my last post but here is said Rubendall back piece that he posted on his Instagram awhile ago.

Yeah that Rubendall piece is definitely tibetan inspired! The skulls are adorned with smaller skulls, just like real Tibetan necromancer masks!

Done by Horimitsu at the Bay Area Tattoo Convention.

I've heard so many different things about tebori, but it was an awesome experience. So much that I'll ask Horitomo to shade my back by hand when we get that going.

Forearm filler and a Snakehead
Done by Greg Woodrow - Taunton Tattoo Co, Oshawa ON, Canada

little executioner fella from my mentor yesterday.

@Graeme, I suspect the tattoo Horitomo did is a depiction of the priest, Ikkyu. Not exclusive to only Kyosai, but he has an image or 2 depicting dancing skeletons with Priest Ikkyu and the Hell Courtesan, Jigoku Daiyu. I'm not positive it's the same client as I've only seen the pieces seperately, but I think it's a bodysuit with Ikkyu on the front and Jigoku Daiyu on his back. It makes cohesive sense and both are black/grey so I'm rationalizing it is the same Client.
Couldn't figure out how to attach the image directly from my phone, but here's a link that shows an image. Third image down.
http://kiritz.jp/2012/08/kawanabe-kyosai/
That said, I'm not sure if Shige's back piece is tied to any story or idea in particular.