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[Michaelshane]

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[Scott R]

Steve byrne Rock of Ages austin tx

[SeeSea]

Finally got to visit State of Grace and get my Molly Monmon Cat from Horitomo!

He did an amazing job. Just spectacular. I sent several pictures of her and some descriptions of her favorite things, her personality and her character. She *loved* shrimp sushi and got an entire order for her 16th birthday, right before we lost her to cancer. Horitomo created a picture of her in heaven with a halo and surrounded by her favorite things - including that she is surrounded by catnip! The face is perfect. I gave him a decent size square footage and told him he could expand beyond the cat and add other elements. Her face is perfect. When he showed me the sketch, my eyes just teared up.

It was neat to be tattooed on the platform in the shop. It is a little sanctuary with neat drawings, books and items on shelves. He is a quiet gentle soul.

I tried tebori for the whites and I probably would not do it again. For many areas, I didn't even feel the first 4-5 pokes. It just felt like a shoving pressure but there was *no* pain. Then the last several shoves were painful. But around my hip was bad all around. I'm glad I did it, though.

Crashing out now holed up in the hotel with mom. <3 <3 <3

[kelzu]

Mer-kitty

What a great experience, and beautiful tattoo!

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[sighthound]

@SeeSea I saw that on IG and absolutely loved the all the elements of it. The shrimp sushi is awesome.

[Graeme]

@SeeSea That is spectacular and such a wonderful tribute.

[TrixieFaux]

Finally got to visit State of Grace and get my Molly Monmon Cat from Horitomo!

He did an amazing job. Just spectacular. I sent several pictures of her and some descriptions of her favorite things, her personality and her character. She *loved* shrimp sushi and got an entire order for her 16th birthday, right before we lost her to cancer. Horitomo created a picture of her in heaven with a halo and surrounded by her favorite things - including that she is surrounded by catnip! The face is perfect. I gave him a decent size square footage and told him he could expand beyond the cat and add other elements. Her face is perfect. When he showed me the sketch, my eyes just teared up.

It was neat to be tattooed on the platform in the shop. It is a little sanctuary with neat drawings, books and items on shelves. He is a quiet gentle soul.

I tried tebori for the whites and I probably would not do it again. For many areas, I didn't even feel the first 4-5 pokes. It just felt like a shoving pressure but there was *no* pain. Then the last several shoves were painful. But around my hip was bad all around. I'm glad I did it, though.

Crashing out now holed up in the hotel with mom. <3 <3 <3

It's so sweet and adorable and beautiful, congratulations!!!

[Rob I]

Steve byrne Rock of Ages austin tx

I absolutely LOVE this. Congratulations!!!!

[Padji]

Steve byrne Rock of Ages austin tx

Fantastic. I want a chest eagle and I could almost copy that exact tattoo! Congrats

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[kelzu]

Hey guys, long time no post. I just realized I never posted my two latest because I wanted to wait until they were both healed. Not the best pics, but you get the idea.

Cobra by Scott Sylvia done at Pagoda City Convention. Drawn on in 15 minutes, outlined in about an hour. Scott is the absolute best. We had originally talked about him doing all of the black in Reading then the color in the fall, but he had the time so we just powered through. It was another great experience being tattooed by him, and I can't say enough great things.

Death's head moth by Oliver Peck while guesting in Philadelphia at Kadillac Mt. Airy. Another pleasure. Oliver was so down to earth and easy to talk to, just like you'd expect. He only did three or four tattoos that day, and I was lucky it happened to be the last week before school started and I could squeeze in after cross country practice (the only heavily tattooed coach in the world, I think). He checked out a ton of my tattoos and even took his shirt off to show me his stomach from Scott, his side from Rassier, and his back from Trevino. So awesome.

Not the best photos, but it's what I have.

Also, I was not expecting to have nearly this much pink on my legs, particularly from Scott and Oliver, but here we are.

I love these! The colours are fantastic, if a little unexpected

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[Breakme]

@SeeSea I love your little Molly Monmon!

That was quite a tender spot for me too. Ouch.

[Iwar]

Finally got to visit State of Grace and get my Molly Monmon Cat from Horitomo!

He did an amazing job. Just spectacular. I sent several pictures of her and some descriptions of her favorite things, her personality and her character. She *loved* shrimp sushi and got an entire order for her 16th birthday, right before we lost her to cancer. Horitomo created a picture of her in heaven with a halo and surrounded by her favorite things - including that she is surrounded by catnip! The face is perfect. I gave him a decent size square footage and told him he could expand beyond the cat and add other elements. Her face is perfect. When he showed me the sketch, my eyes just teared up.

It was neat to be tattooed on the platform in the shop. It is a little sanctuary with neat drawings, books and items on shelves. He is a quiet gentle soul.

I tried tebori for the whites and I probably would not do it again. For many areas, I didn't even feel the first 4-5 pokes. It just felt like a shoving pressure but there was *no* pain. Then the last several shoves were painful. But around my hip was bad all around. I'm glad I did it, though.

Crashing out now holed up in the hotel with mom. <3 <3 <3

You finally got it!! Congrats and welcome to the club :D

[Shaun1105]

Steve byrne Rock of Ages austin tx

Yeah! Welcome to the Steve chest eagle club!

[Lance]

Congratulations @SeeSea! I dig Horitomo designed it stretching out. My childhood cats loved doing that when they found a nice patch of sunlight to lay in. The face is great cuz it's as happy a cat can be with all of its goodies. Also, yes, the pose accentuates its mer-catness.

I wonder how many people now have a monmoncat here on LST?

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@Scott R, man you get the good stuff for sure. Tough! Need to see that if you ever come back to the Bay Convention

[Scott R]

@Lance I will definitely come back to convention and next time I will set up only one appt and hang the rest of the time.

[bongsau]

@SeeSea ...one of the most unique monmon cats I've seen yet! love it, thanks for sharing :)

[SeeSea]

@SeeSea ...one of the most unique monmon cats I've seen yet! love it, thanks for sharing :)

Thanks! I am madly in love with it and get this heart-smile whenever I look at it.

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@SeeSea I saw that on IG and absolutely loved the all the elements of it. The shrimp sushi is awesome.

Thank you! Yes - I love that her fuzzy white belly is the rice. I was almost certain that he would use a shrimp for her orange coloration - it was such a match.

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@SeeSea That is spectacular and such a wonderful tribute.

Thanks - yes, he did a wonderful job. I had described to Molly how sweet my kitty was, and Tomo put her in a halo. Wow.

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It's so sweet and adorable and beautiful, congratulations!!!

Thanks! I am glad it finally happened. I had a screen shot of your Monmon and of you and furry Tomo on my phone but I forgot to show him! Rats.

[Fala]

@SeeSea - What a great monmon cat!!! Congratulations!

[SeeSea]

@SeeSea - What a great monmon cat!!! Congratulations!

Thank you - I just love her. Now if only the bruising would begin to subside...but I have to say, this is a great heal so far.

[Fala]

@SeeSea I took arnica and calendula homeopathics, which helped a lot, this past go-round! Calendula is specific for skin problems/scabs/rashes/scrapes/etc, so it makes sense that it would be so helpful with a tattoo. Can't wait to see it healed!

[bongsau]

well, got some bug tattoos and made the paper:

photo by Shaughn Butts, Edmonton Journal

[omeletta]

Got this Shishi Lion from Alix Ge at the London convention yesterday (pic nicked from her instagram):

When I arrived, Alix was still drawing. She told me we couldn't put the tattoo on the side of my thigh like I had asked for because for that I would have to lie down and she only had a chair. Well, alright then. When I came back from a short tour around the convention she had obviously done another drawing which was much bigger than the first. She thought the animal had to be rather large to be nice, good with me. But she didn't think we could fit peonies as well, would I be happy with cherry blossoms instead...? Bummer...what? Noooo...! Oh well, so we agreed to put on the lion stencil and see then. Stencil went on, peonies were added freehand. No problem, all fitted on there nicely....but...that was gonna be a looong session. If I was a strong woman, she asked. Ermmmmm, well, I bl**dy hoped so...what else could I say? She looked at me particularly sceptical after she found out it was only my second tattoo....

Obviously, we made it, yippie!!!

Six hours on a folding chair with two breaks. Even though I got some odd looks and remarks for running around with a pillow under my arm, I was well glad I had brought it because it made the chair way more comfortable! Apart from that, getting tattooed at the convention was actually surprisingly good as there was so much to watch and get distracted by. I could openly stare at all the tattoos walking by and quite a few people gave me encouraging smiles and words. That was really cool.

Alix is super lovely and I kinda felt a little bad for her having to sit on her small suitcase for hours. Towards the end she told me that she wouldn't be able to do what I did and that she'd never get a tattoo that takes more than one hour herself. I doubt that's actually true, but it was a sweet thing to say anyway.

Suffice to say I'm super chuffed but also glad it's over!

And this morning my 3 1/2 year old greeted me excitedly with "Mummy, I have a tattoo, too!". Turns out the entire family has tattoos now, some of them of the temporary type, some rather not ;-)

[polliwog]

Only your second tattoo? Sorry, I think I must have confused you with another poster over on the convention thread! :o Regardless, that is jaw-droppingly beautiful and you are a badass for finishing it.

[omeletta]

Only your second tattoo? Sorry, I think I must have confused you with another poster over on the convention thread! :o Regardless, that is jaw-droppingly beautiful and you are a badass for finishing it.

Lol, no worries, I'm working on it, even though slowly ;-)

[SeeSea]

@omeletta - sweet! That must have been a little stressful to arrive and have things change several times. The tail is great (well the rest of it is too), but the tail really catches my eye - I think the way it flows up your thigh. Nice.