Latest tattoo lowdown.....

[Iwar]

Hannya by Horimasa Tosui / Harpy by Chris Garver

Pretty much healed up...

[Gnawa]

Portrait of Edgar Allen Poe by Vinny Romanelli at Red Rocket NYC (a Poe-rtrait?), done this afternoon.

[SStu]

Starting a collaboration backpiece with William Yoneyama and Matt Mooney in a couple of weeks, very excited

Matty D Mooney - Dagger & Lark Tattoo est. 1985 - Melbourne

William Yoneyama - Dagger & Lark Tattoo est. 1985 - Melbourne

THAT should be sweet. I've been following Yoneyama for a while now.

Watcha gonna get?

[Duffa]

Haha thanks again @hogg! The joke is... いたみ なくして 得るものなし or Itami nakushite erumono nasai, roughly translated: "No Pain, No Gain" lol. Like i said its an inside joke with the crew and probably not funny/just plain stupid to everyone else but it started when I was over getting my sleeve and figured why not?

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Oh, and @Iwar those are dope. That Hannya looks so good and that Garver... what exactly is it? Lol either way is just plain awesome!

[ian]

Hannya by Horimasa Tosui / Harpy by Chris Garver

Pretty much healed up...

I hate you.

[hogg]

Thanks, @Duffa. I couldn't have been farther off!

@Iwar, I got tattooed by Horimasa a few years back. Super nice guy, huh? And his tebori wasn't really painful at all. I looooove that hannya!

[Lance]

Winners all!!!

[JimmyS]

THAT should be sweet. I've been following Yoneyama for a while now.

Watcha gonna get?

im getting hannya mask with a dragon, matt is doing the hannya and william the dragon

[TravisGarcia]

Final session sorry its not a healed pic! Done by Josh Damnit, Classic Tattoo, upland ca. It filled an awkward spot on my leg nicely.

[KYboy]

Just got back from Cali and these are my souvenirs. Candle and coffin by Scott Sylvia and a little California black and gray skull rose by Freddy Corbin. The tattoos speak for themselves and I don't have enough time to tell ya how awesome of human beings these guys are.

[hogg]

Damn, @KYboy. You just come to the Bay and steal all our killer tattoos in the night?

[KYboy]

Damn, @KYboy. You just come to the Bay and steal all our killer tattoos in the night?

I was trying to! If only I had more cash!

[sbhikes]

I just got this butterfly to hopefully take some attention off the mistake below and fill the empty space in the front. Bugged me that looking at myself head-on I only saw red balls. I did this as a walk-in on the spur of the moment.

[TrixieFaux]

I just got this butterfly to hopefully take some attention off the mistake below and fill the empty space in the front. Bugged me that looking at myself head-on I only saw red balls. I did this as a walk-in on the spur of the moment.

Looks nice!

[embers]

tapped out. finishing in another week.

getting my knee done by derek noble on tuesday!

[David Flores]

tapped out. finishing in another week.

getting my knee done by derek noble on tuesday!

Who is doing that tattoo on you? You probably have said I just can't remember. Almost looks like a Bob Roberts Eagle. Anyway it's rad!

[doshio]

Jesus. That looks amazing. I don't think I could bring myself to get anything that big - at least not initially, haha. Who knows what lies ahead.

Right, so Bob Roberts... that's a name I can add to the long list of legends to research.

Is it common to have an eagle and a dragon facing off in a tattoo? Love the idea. Don't think I've seen it executed before.

[Avery Taylor]

Who is doing that tattoo on you? You probably have said I just can't remember. Almost looks like a Bob Roberts Eagle. Anyway it's rad!

Dave that is Matt Arriola's work.

[hogg]

@embers, that looks killer! The same goes for your beard.

[VIVA HATE]

by Fergus Simms @ No Regrets, Melbourne. 2 days old

It's fresh, so the colors aren't really coming out yet, but there's some nice red and green in there!

[BrookR70]

I know I posted this in my intro thread, but here it is again. I got this at Papa Joe's Tattoo one month ago. This is the pic taken right after it was done.

[Iwar]

Thanks @Duffa I love all your new additions! The subject of my Garver tattoo is called a Harpy Harpy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It's from greek mythology, and I think it's a little weird that it isn't seen more often in tattooing. Who doesn't like an eagle with tits? :cool:

@hogg Getting tattooed by tebori was a real treat and something I've been looking forward to for a long time. Since this was my first tebori experience I don't really have any pain reference, but it wasn't too bad. Less painful than by machine, but slower. Horimasa was super friendly, humble and just an all round great guy. Such a great experience. We actually got it done in Marco Serio's studio since Horimasa was waiting for his own place to get greenlit by the health department. Unfortunately Marco was abroad, but I got to stare at his awesome stencils which were hanging all over the wall while I was getting tattooed :)

[hogg]

This is not on me--it's on my wife--but it's too good not to post here:

By Paul Dobleman, Spider Murphy's Tattoo. I booked with him for next month--can't wait for my turn!

[Iwar]

@hogg I love that! Thigh action for you next month? What are you getting?

[embers]

@embers, that looks killer! The same goes for your beard.

ha thanks dude!