briankelly

thanks! @devious6 i make loads of flash, i'm been trying to do more of a super skinny line thing with even fewer colors most recently

thanks for the mention @ibradley, i think if you want to make traditional tattoos, you should reference older tattoo flash.  for me it gets a little boring to just repaint the older images, though there is nothing wrong with that.  i have been applying the brion gysin/william burroughs technique of cut-ups to try to make something new, while staying very rooted in traditional tattoos.  there is a great book called Milton Zeis: Tattooing As You Like it that you should check out if you haven't already.  I'm including a picture of some of my latest flash, just to give you something to look at.

Just thought I'd put a post here to have everyone check out my Etsy.  I try to paint pictures when I'm not tattooing, so please visit https://www.etsy.com/shop/briankellyarmy and see what I've done!

just wanted to comment on this old thread that the best place to get a walk-tattoo in Berlin is at http://roseofnomanslandberlin.com

i remember the feeling i had on my first session of my back when the machine started up and then cut into me for the first couple of lines. i thought, this is completely retarded. i'm never even going to see this thing..

just started instagram. @brianmfkelly

no tattooer would be excited about fixing this. i would advise getting another tattoo from a good shop and if you can hit it off with the tattooer, he/she would be much more likely inclined to fix your old crappy tattoo. sometimes crappy tattoos are a great memory too. like that tattoo is a mark of being in iraq and of your buddy.

i had this one done by Björn Liebner.

these are pretty good machines and well known in europe. i know it doesn't look like a bulldog. not sure if some polish tattooers make them, but people like edek and davie blows seem to be associated with them.

i started going to kundalini yoga a little over a year ago. i've found that it helps me feel better physically. i never knew my hips were so tight until i started doing it! i figured if it was good enough for Aleister Crowley is was good enough for me..

i really enjoyed this interview too. i knew that bill baker had left eikon a while ago and could see they were adding products just to make money. the metered power supply is probably one of the greatest things that has happened to tattooing and it's a shame that buying one supports the people who forced him out.

i tell people it's more like being cut. because that's what's really happening. not sure if this helps there fear at all.

here's a preview of my back from Björn Liebner at Red Chapel Tattoo in berlin.

i live in berlin, and i work at loxodrom tattoo. our walls are covered in hand painted flash and we are a street shop. so, we do walk-ins if possible.

the best studio for this sort of thing is Loxodrom Tattoo.

one thing that i tell the people who come into the studio and want an apprenticeship is, that just because you want to learn to tattoo, doesn't mean you get to. The other thing i tell them is that the only way to learn is to know some tattooers. I'll help friends of mine, but not some random person who has walked into the studio or sent an email.

she tattooed her own name on her arm. i always find that strange when people request their own name tattooed on them. i guess it's in case they forget.

i think cherry creek is awesome. people don't know it so well in europe. i even tattooed a flying pig from the flash on my wrist and all girls think it is the cutest tattoo ever.

when i worked in dublin, a guy came in with these tattoos. got them done when he was 15 by Johnny Eagle. surprisingly, he is still with Karen. he wanted to cover them up with tribal, even though i was putting more polished traditional on his son. never saw him again.

to clarify, i don't think the non-tattooers understood. the girl wants a half sleeve based on the solar system (whatever that means) finished in about a month. she also lives several hours outside of berlin, meaning she will need to make one 5 hour trip just to talk about it and try to work out a plan. people with this sort of vague idea usually do not understand what sort of commitment getting a big tattoo is. i am interested in making nice tattoos for money, not making money making crap tattoos. and i do tattoo for free, but only on friends. and yes, dan. that one on the guestbook is pretty good, but i don't read german. i also fully disagree that if someone wants a tattoo that automatically means i have to reply to them.

well, it's not my shop. and i'm interested in making tattoos, not having a revenue stream.

thanks for telling me how to do my business. just because you write to someone doesn't mean you get a reply.

here's one sent to the facebook page for our shop. mind you, at this studio we all take our own appointments and nobody is in charge. management is completely hands off. "Hey there, looking to get a half sleeve based on the solar system. In dresden so not far from berlin till the end of February. Any chance this would be possible?" i don't reply to things like this, it hurts my head to try to figure out how this could work.

here's a healed one that i put on someone.

i got this!