Latest tattoo lowdown.....

[el twe]

Holy cow, @beez - that is stunning!!

[sophistre]

Anyway, for those who might have missed it on IG, here is my new snake!

Hooooly cow. All of these amazing backpieces are starting to make me jealous. Not jealous enough to start yet, but...yeah. So good.

[purplelace]

Saw hello to my new tattoo, which I got done yesterday, pic was taken by tattooist shortly after it was finished.

A tribute to H R Giger, a portrait of the man himself, it wraps around lower left leg and, was roughly 6 hrs, done in 1 session. I slept through most of it.

Tattooed by: Tommygunn in Belfast City Skinworks, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

[Cork]

@beez that is awesome. I saw a teaser put up on the Diamond Club IG, and was waiting for it to show up here. Looks great!

[misterJ]

not enough penises and vaginas to be Giger...

That is a great tattoo, I loved that guys art

[ironchef]

@beez I want to get a snake now because of your AWESOME back!!!

[Avery Taylor]

@bongsau - Shad is super nice, and SO FAST! We got that snake done in 4 HOURS! 4!!!! Outline, shading, color!!! He does use bactine, as you mentioned, and that helps so much. He said he is going to be up in Canada, so I hope you get in to see him!

This was a really painful session, all in all. The upper back is like hot fire. Not fun! I am so stoked to get to this point in my tattoo, though, and I can't wait to continue the collaboration. We were talking about a dragon on the rest of the back of my legs looking up at the snakes. !!!!

Anyway, for those who might have missed it on IG, here is my new snake!

Did he say when and where he will be in Canada?

[Scott R]

Hi guys. I haven't posted anything in ages, but that doesn't mean I don't stop by regularly and check out whats new. The past year was kind of a rough one for me health-wise, but I'm cautiously optimistic that things are looking up. I only got one tattoo in 2014 but that's okay, as it was the last big spot I had left open. I spaced out getting this tummy tickler done from May through October. Just now got around to getting a healed picture (and a shitty one at that) of it. Done by my local dude Paul Pearson at Bright Ideas in Murfreesboro TN. (P.S. Although we used a print of the original Pharaoh's Horses painting for reference my plainskin Missus prefers to call it a three headed horse with a gunshot wound).

I hope your health is improving but as always stay low go fast man

[beez]

Did he say when and where he will be in Canada?

Edmonton! For 1 day! That's all I know! He is going to Arizona after this and then Canada. I know that he told me when, I just can't remember!!!! I'm so sorry - tattoo brain made me spacey.

I think today is his last day at DC - maybe give them a call and find out? I said "I know someone in Canada (from the internet) who wants to get tattooed by you," and he said that wherever he's going, the shop owner said there were a couple of people who wanted to talk to him about his next visit there.

He's gonna be in AZ for a few days so you might try hitting him up on instagram or something to see exactly where he's gonna be.

@ironchef you FLATTER me!

[Scott R]

@beez woah total beautiful baddassery

[AuntTudie]

Not the finished product. But this is a peek at my latest piece.

[jen7]

Progress shot....pretty much finished the top half.

[Avery Taylor]

Edmonton! For 1 day! That's all I know! He is going to Arizona after this and then Canada. I know that he told me when, I just can't remember!!!! I'm so sorry - tattoo brain made me spacey.

I think today is his last day at DC - maybe give them a call and find out? I said "I know someone in Canada (from the internet) who wants to get tattooed by you," and he said that wherever he's going, the shop owner said there were a couple of people who wanted to talk to him about his next visit there.

He's gonna be in AZ for a few days so you might try hitting him up on instagram or something to see exactly where he's gonna be.

@ironchef you FLATTER me!

Thanks for the information.

[xcom]

@jen7,

SICK!!! :D

[purplelace]

@misterJ haha, thanks :)

I am planning on getting some more H R Giger artwork done and some pieces influenced by him

[hogg]

Damn you, @beez. I already have a huge snake on my back, but now I'm jealous of yours. Very jealous.

[polliwog]

@beez that is beyond cool. Also: 4 hours...howwww??!

[Uncle Baron]

^that snake.....wow! 4 hours,impressive.

[graybones]

@beez Absolutely incredible!! You must be so stoked with it!!

[cltattooing]

new lil dude from Hector Fong at Tattoo 13 in Oakland :)

[Rad Kelham]

By Trevor Shea in Vancouver BC. Healed and no filer...seriously. Trevor is the Mike Roper of Canada in my opinion. Bodysuits that you will never see online.

[beez]

Damn you, @beez. I already have a huge snake on my back, but now I'm jealous of yours. Very jealous.

Hogg, your snake may or may not have ended up in my reference pile ;). I'm flattered!

@beez that is beyond cool. Also: 4 hours...howwww??!

Polliwog - I have no idea how in the HELL he did that in four hours. Even though I was there for it I can barely believe it. He said that since he had drawn and colored the snake completely already on a picture of my back, and then he drew it again on me in marker before we started, that because he had drawn it and colored it in he knew exactly where to go and that's why it was so fast. <throws up hands> he's a mad genius! I have never been tattooed by anybody who is particularly slow, either! But the other half of my back definitely took multiple sessions of AT LEAST 4 hours each, so this was soo fast!

The one thing that may have helped was that he used bactine after the first 1.5 hours, and the lidocaine in bactine kept me nice and numb. But once I was numb he went for it and started digging in there - I could DEFINITELY tell I was being worked on. I don't know if I could have handled it without the numbing.

On numbing: I used to be sort of anti-numbing, but I got numbed for the last 90 min of the eagle/dragon thigh piece and then for this, and I don't feel like I really missed out on the tattoo experience. I was definitely there for all of it! And the numbing may have removed the "hot fire" element of it, but not the continuously working over chopped up skin feeling. So that's it!

@cltattooing that hector fong piece is sick!

[Rad Kelham]

Nothing wrong with bactine. It's a staple and makes sense for all parties involved.

[beez]

Nothing wrong with bactine. It's a staple and makes sense for all parties involved.

yeah, definitely. i could sit better for him and he could work larger un-interrupted stretches!

[polliwog]

This may be a derail, but I got some Bactine for one of my leg tattoos...it was a weird experience; it was completely numb in certain areas, but then elsewhere it was like three times as painful. Has anyone else dealt with this?

Edit: I saw that @dari mentioned this in the painkillers thread. Maybe going to request no topical numbing agents in the future unless I'm doing love handles one day...