Latest tattoo lowdown.....

[Boiled Dove]

Just got this from Scott Sylvia at the Elm Street Festival in Dallas

[tc3500]

Nice dagger!!

Edited November 17, 2015 by tc3500
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[Shaggy]

@UglyButProud

Nice Dragon.

[kimkong]

got this dietzel-birdie last week from the nice dude johann. https://instagram.com/sign_of_the_wolf/

healed - not settled.

[bongsau]

^ that's a good look bro

[Tight-Lines]

Old left knee and new right knee from Chad Koeplinger. If feels good to finally have this shit out of the way.

[66pens87]

pretty excited to have booked appointments for my GF and myself to have quite a bit of chair time with Freddy Corbin. This dude is such a standup guy. He answers my email, calls, etc... within hours. I have messaged many of the harder to schedule artist and have never heard from them in 2 years. Living in Portland, I am hoping to make one trip from Portland to Oakland, then going to my hometown and having Tim Hendricks due a piece all in the same weekend. But for now, Freddy is a lock.

[Hands On]

Old left knee and new right knee from Chad Koeplinger. If feels good to finally have this shit out of the way.

nice! how did the midnight lion turn out on your buddy?

[Tight-Lines]

nice! how did the midnight lion turn out on your buddy?

It looks great. I'll get him to send me a picture today.

[CultExciter]

Today's work was intense, and we still have a bit left to go!

Yoni Zilber at NY Adorned.

https://www.instagram.com/p/-Cj6--MGq7/?taken-by=yonizilber

So good! Miss you guys!

[Fala]

So good! Miss you guys!

Miss you too!!! Will you be able to come up for the Warriors Fund event in March?!

[LizBee]

(Pardon my overly enthusiastic post but I've just recently started getting tattooed, and I've never been tattooed at a convention - this is all pretty new to me so I'm gushing a bit!)

Not great pics, and no good clear ones of the tat yet, but am SO STOKED (and still a bit wonky) from my epic day yesterday with Darcy Nutt at the Richmond VA Tattoo Arts Convention. We emailed about ideas beforehand, but she decided not to draw anything up, wanting to meet me first and collaborate on something after we spoke in person. She had no other appointments, so my simple Japanese koi idea turned into my own freshwater angel fish from pics off my phone, and my beloved peonies.

She freehanded it onto my arm, and including that part of it and one potty break, it was 6 hours in the chair. That is why I look a bit cross-eyed strung out by the last pic! I ate an omelet at 9 am and hubby tried to get me to eat along the way, but I could not do it - endorphins from pain suppress the appetite, I guess. I tried to stay hydrated, though, and found my happy place. It is all about breathing. I knew I'd be leaving with something wonderful that I'd enjoy forever, and it would be worth it.

She won Tattoo of the Day (I guess I won too, but I didn't do anything but sit there), and that was pretty sweet! She finished at 9:25, the contest was at 9:30, and the pic was taken at about 10, at which point I didn't know my own name, lol. That is definitely a long session, I don't care who you are, but I had an opportunity that was not to be passed up, and Darcy is a genius.

When I went up to the judges, they looked at each other, shaking their heads and grinning as they all exclaimed, "Fuckin' Darcy..." cuz they KNEW this tattoo was going to win, lol. Anybody who has the chance to get some work done by this sweet, wonderful, brilliant lady you should definitely do it. She made this design up on the fly, without ever having done this type of fish before. I'll post pics when I get the ones done by the photographer at the show, or the ones she'll post on her IG, showing the fish better towards the back of my arm.

From Darcy's IG:

https://www.instagram.com/p/-ZQEJVMdTl/

[CultExciter]

Miss you too!!! Will you be able to come up for the Warriors Fund event in March?!

I believe so!

[polliwog]

That is such a beautiful tattoo, and you look pretty relaxed and normal for someone who just sat for 6 hours. Congratulations!

[LizBee]

That is such a beautiful tattoo, and you look pretty relaxed and normal for someone who just sat for 6 hours. Congratulations!

Thanks. I had to sign a release for photos, and I could not remember how to spell "yahoo.com" I was lucky to know how to say my own name at that point, lol

[Breakme]

Congrats @LizBee, that is a gorgeous tattoo. I adore the colours in the peony.

[pidjones]

@LizBee, congrats on getting some awesome art, the experience in getting it, and the award!

[AuntTudie]

I got a tattoo on Khao Sahn Road about 8 years ago. I got it done at Pumpkin Studios. It's a badly done kanji. No covering it up though. Great Memories. Did you make it to Cambodia? Loved Angkor Wat.

[Liz Stitch Ellis]

I'm not even sure where to start. Let alone do I even remember my last post on here. But I found the site again, and have done a lot since the last time I was in here. Pretty sure it has been almost 3 years, I'll blame two of those years on paramedic school.

But any who.. Just finished this: Took me about a year to finalize the drawing before taking it to a completely new artist and shop. Once it was all cleaned up and sized correctly it was a 2 year project between a chaotic work life. But I couldn't be happier

[Patrick Bateman]

@LizBee

I saw that on her IG. it came out awesome, good stuff.

congrats, get more lol lol

[Tight-Lines]

I believe so!

STOKED. I'll be out with my fiance... this time I'm hoping to spend more than 23 hours on the ground.

[bongsau]

@LizBee

kick ass tattoo, kick ass post, thanks for a reminder why i show up here to hang at LST !

also wanted to add I think we are getting so accustomed to seeing these fresh tattoos framed on a smart phone, tattoos are so much more powerful when you see them on the persons with smiling faces. It puts tattoo in context with the wearers personality and creates bigger impact. Cheers and thank you for sharing :)

[CultExciter]

@LizBee I see wild man Rodney Raines in those photos. I am sure you had a good time.

[LizBee]

@LizBee

kick ass tattoo, kick ass post, thanks for a reminder why i show up here to hang at LST !

also wanted to add I think we are getting so accustomed to seeing these fresh tattoos framed on a smart phone, tattoos are so much more powerful when you see them on the persons with smiling faces. It puts tattoo in context with the wearers personality and creates bigger impact. Cheers and thank you for sharing :)

Thanks for mentioning that, @bongsau, and here's another pic of the person with the tattoo. This is a person who just sat for 6 hours or so in constant pain, hour after hour, but looking pretty dang fresh in the end, and you know why? A FUCKIN GOOD TATTOO! That puts a smile on one's face, no? Good tattoos are worth it, and you know it when you've got it!

@CultExciter, speaking of Rodney Raines, this is his photo below, from his IG. He and Darcy have been collaborating on pieces lately and he was next to us the whole time working on an EPIC foo dog that would have been a major contender for the prize that night if he'd have been finished in time. He's a great guy and does awesome work himself. I was certainly in the presence of greatness that day. He threw in a suggestion or two here and there, so I'd like to say he has a little bit to do with this tattoo as well.

Oh, and I think I need to march right out and get myself #1) more tank tops and #2) Platform shoes or stilts or something.

[Synesthesia]

Somewhere between 5 or 6 hours of outlining today with Sam Warren. He ended up going just the tiniest bit bigger than I thought he would, but I am so stoked to get this started. Oh, and this goes into the dreaded butt crease, which had me seeing stars.