ThatGuy

All healed up for now. 2 sessions in with Chad

here's my chest.. i don't think i've posted it in here yet. done by brandon montero

March 10th I will be headed to Saved Tattoo for my consultation with Virginia Elwood. March 14th I will go back and get my chest piece started. I am getting both of my grandfathers' Navy portraits on either side of my upper chest/shoulder area, a battleship in the middle with two flying fish under my pecs. Maybe a rose in the middle of my sternum, and rope with knots "framing" the rest of the area on top. Basically letting her run with colors and design. I'm hoping she can do all the line work and a good first pass on the portraits in my first sitting. I don't know about her speed so we shall see. I have been planning on this for at least 20 years, that I can recall, so I am nervous and excited with anticipation. I trust she will kill it.

My tattoo artist sent me a progress of the drawing for my tattoo on feb 1st. He's going to add a deaths head moth in there somewhere, and some background filler between my other tattoos, going to be Full color. The plan is to do it in one sitting..

I have a. Appointment on feb 1st. To get a traditional gypsy head, rose and skull on my back from Karl Williams from Dubuque Tattoo club! Getting excited to get another one, been almost a year since my last one!

On my way to arlanda airport in stockholm for my flight to Barcelona.
Two full days of backpiece awesomeness with Jondix to look forward to!

My back is in progress actually. Also being done by Chad. I think they are both challenging to have tattooed. It's a tough call. I think the line work sucks on both the back and chest, but the shading seems a bit easier on the back. Everyone's different.
Your back piece is sick. If you can sit through all of that you'll do just fine on your chest.

Don't have a pic showing them together, but chest eagle and pharaoh's horses belly is what I went with.

Thinking along these lines. Perhaps not Pharaoh's Horses, but a big one on my chest and another one on my belly at a later stage.

Badass! This is most likely the size I'll be going with. Great piece!

I recently finished a short documentary that profiles Norwegian tattooer Morten Transeth. I also added English subtitles to the best of my ability, so remember to switch captions (CC) on if you need 'em :)


Go to http://instagram.com/morten_transeth to see more of his work.
Thanks for watching!

@exume I love that piece. It's absolutely bad ass!!
Here is my contribution. Also by Chad. Finished about a year and a half ago. I went a bit smaller.
One heck of an experience. Some very rough moments for sure!!! Chad is the best though!
2 sessions.

Been loving some of front pieces from Matthew Houston at Salon Serpent. A couple of killer stomach rockers in there, too.

Are there really no new chest pieces to show off?
It's getting close to my consultation and I'm still looking for ideas/inspiration. Have pretty much decided on an eagle/snake combo, but not sure on what size/coverage to go with. My front is completely empty at the moment.

@ThatGuy I put the progress from my last session in the lowdown thread in Nov. I can get a healed shot in here for ya tonight if you need more convincing that eagle vs snake is the way to go

I use Google extensively (Eagle snake chest tattoo) and Pinterest (traditional snake eagle flash).If you can find a copy of "Sailor Jerry Collins American Tattoo Master" and look on page 75, there is one kick-ass Wivern (Wyvern).

Wow! Super-clean.

Wow! Super-clean.

Are there really no new chest pieces to show off?
It's getting close to my consultation and I'm still looking for ideas/inspiration. Have pretty much decided on an eagle/snake combo, but not sure on what size/coverage to go with. My front is completely empty at the moment.

got my hand tattooed by max kuhn yesterday

Wow! Super-clean.

Above is a picture of me laying like a passed out pale seal on Iain Mullens table. Today was the second to last session on my back. Can't wait to see it finished. We're doing the last bit and touch ups with Rudy Fritsch at the Scottish Convention in the end of March. Going to be fun/hell. Todays session was nice except for a few bits. I can't believe how quick this piece has been. I got the idea to start my back in April last year, asked Iain about it and then we started in mid June. It really helps that both him and Rudy work super quick and make for good company + conversations during the sessions.
Secret bit of knowledge exclusively for LST (I know people love that exclusiveness, I sure do): that ain't a dark red, but actually a light gray wash looking bloodied and irritated. Haven't got a piece of color on me, except for a few patches of gray and white.

got this ganesh yesterday thanks to robert ryan @ electric tattoo in asbury park, nj

Upper inside of the arm tonight. Feels like burning. With Greg Whitehead, as usual! A fun panther-leopard with a Tibetan shell.

Starting to close in on it with this arm. Room for two modest/smallish pieces and then just filler after that. Crazy.

Already mentioned this in a thread i started in the "get togethers" section, but i'm scheduled to start my backpiece with Marius Meyer in December. Flights and hotel booked, no backing out now! Nothing concrete yet but it's going to be a battle royale type piece, definitely involving an eagle and perhaps a snake/skull, depending on size, placement etc.
Feels great to be finally getting it all started, i've been slowly putting the money away to one side to make sure i get used to not having it and left it a good amount of time to be 100% certain it's financially viable. Now my only concern (although not a huge one) is the healing process. I live alone so it's not going to be particularly easy to clean and apply cream etc.