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Healed lady I got from Ivan Antonyshev while he was guesting in Leeds last month. Spotted this design on the Mainstay T-shirt and fell in love with it. So stoked to get a piece from him at last.
 
 

I'm not great with photos but here are a few progress pictures from this last month with Lehi.

@Iwar and @ItsNewport Your photo should be pinned at the top of the "do tattoos hurt" topic. (And your new work is so freaking cool.)
 

Hahaha thanks for capturing me at my best, @Iwar
Hopefully next time i see you it won't be quite so torturous for me!

It was great seing you again Gareth! Although I have to admit I felt like a sadist at times too, haha. You're tougher than most!
 

Did some shading with Greggles today. Not even in the same league as lining, though anytime he gets close to that one area on either scapula I have to bite leather. That will probably always suck. But hey - since we focused on the upper body this time, I didn't have to be completely naked in public for a whole day! Bonus. 
I am finding that 4 hours is about the time that I consistently have my pain response start to fail. Tattoo flu every time. 
 
 

Got this kitsune from Matt Arriola yesterday.

Made another Oslo trip last week to start a cover up on my lower stomach. While i was there i picked up a namakubi from Nicholas at Blue Arms.

The cover up is ongoing and i don't mind admitting i'm very apprehensive about the next session! This was not a fun tattoo to get although Marius did his best to keep my spirits up and a visit from LST's own Mr @Iwar definitely kept me distracted from the significant pain!
 

Here's a little party shark I got from Scott Sylvia recently. I meant to post healed pictures but it's a difficult area of my arm to photograph. Thanks for looking! starting the left sleeve next. 

Here is some more tattoo news, though it's not very happy news. :( Art Work Rebels in Portland burned to the ground due to a gas line leak. 100% of what was in the shop was lost. Nobody who works there was hurt, but apparently the girl who was living upstairs from them is in the hospital and a bunch of firefighters also got hurt trying to get to her. 

Jeff Croci has set up a gofundme to help them get back on their feet. If you're feeling like you have a spare buck, I imagine every little bit helps.
 
 

1) Paul Dolbleman, Spider Murphy's 2013, Dietzel design. 
2) Herb Auerbach, California Electric 2013.
Both photos taken today. My hound wanted to be in the pic. 
 

 

Tiger dagger done by Tyson Arndt in february last year, at Stockholm Classic.
Venomous snake dagger done a little over a year ago in Newcastle while he was on tour.

Okay, I'm in. Dagger by Grez (Kings Avenue) done at Pagoda 2015.  

Missed skulls, so I'll enter this month for fun (not a chance of winning with @Gingerninja's back in the competition!). It's by Joshua Henderson, Brainstorm Tattoos, 2014.

I'll throw mine in the ring. 
Scott Sylvia, done at the Richmond Convention a few years back. 
 

My sneaky panther concealing a mini dagger with his tail
made by Shawn O'Connor

Scott Sylvia, Elm Street Tattoo Fest, Dallas, 2015

Mike Wilson did this dagger, snake, and roses on me at the SFO convention in 2012. included a #livedintattoos comparison of the day of vs today (wth poor lighting).

Done by Tony Nilsson a couple of years ago!
(never mind my hairy and ashy armpit)

Ongoing piece. When it's done it will start at my ankle and connect to my chest piece. It's a tiger and samurai on my leg and dragon on my ribs/stomach. Just outline and shading so far on the dragon. We decided to work our way up.

I recently got this cute eagle filler by Ruby Quilter at Sang Bleu. It's a different style to my other tattoos but fits perfectly in the gap.

I got this little filler on my rt leg today for the 13th,
tattoo by Will Veile @  Crimson Needles Tattoo  ,Penryn,CA

Got this a couple days ago, by Brittany Kilsby at Hot Copper in Melbourne, AU. First tattoo, and probably the start of a collection. 

Since I've only been getting tattooed since 2014, I think everybody has seen most of these recently, so it feels a little bit weird to submit them again so soon, haha. But I do have some pieces taken from very classic flash! I'm not sure that I ever posted all of them, anyway. All but the last one were done by Greg Whitehead, but I'm looking forward to getting more one-offs like this soon from other people!

The shoulder-area bird was my first tattoo, and it's a Percy Waters design. The snake in a flower pot is based on Dietzel flash, the diving girl is a Jensen piece and was actually sort of a filler, the elbow butterfly/rose is...uhh, actually, I'm not 100% sure. Someone said it was Jensen, but I don't remember if that's true. I remember Greg saying that it came from a whole lot of flash from the early 1900s that used to be attributed to a mystery artist, but was later identified as belonging to someone specific...I just can't for the life of me remember who it was. The lady with a snake is a Cap Coleman design, and I love her to bits.

The last one was Christopher Ayalin at Liberty, and I got it when I went on a fun tattoo day trip with @beez. A lot of people do flower/snake/dagger stuff, so I dunno...Jensen-ish? I guess? Aside from the color I guess it's still pretty classic traditional subject matter.

And now you have seen like half of my tattoos all at once!

 

Just finished my first half sleeve!!! Woohooooooooo!!! 
15 hours, 12 of which were inking, the other two were mini cigarette breaks and stenciling and freehand drawing the lotuses, done in two back to back days in Thessaloniki (Greece)
Pics were taken a few minutes after the top lotus was done, will upload some pics when it's healed!