Latest tattoo lowdown.....

[CollinK]

I got this(^) from Cori a week or so ago.

Started this guy today(^). Unfortunately, I had to bail early, but it's gonna be sick! By Alan Berg

[Tesseracts]

Just got this a couple hours ago by Noah Moore at the Torchbearer. :D

[polliwog]

That's beautiful! Hope I can catch him next time he's through.

[graybones]

@Tesseracts I love that!

[tatB]

@Tesseracts great tattoo! do you have your 3rd tattoo planned yet?

[peterpoose]

New piece I had done today by Jason Butcher :)

Jasons a really intelligent guy, witty and real chatty. Lovely bloke!

8 hours in total but I have to go back in 3 weeks for the highlights :)

[cvportagee]

Since Horitomo posted my arms on Instagram I thought I should share them here. All shading is done. Next session color begins!

[Lance]

Since Horitomo posted my arms on Instagram I thought I should share them here. All shading is done. Next session color begins!

I thought that was you. Congratulations on the progress thus far. They look absolutely amazing! I hope to see them in person next Convention. Have you begun tying in your back piece background with it yet?

[cvportagee]

I thought that was you. Congratulations on the progress thus far. They look absolutely amazing! I hope to see them in person next Convention. Have you begun tying in your back piece background with it yet?

Thank you! Yeah it's already tied in except for about a square inch part at the bottom of the armpit. Unless I see you earlier, I will show you at the convention. Hopefully by that time I will also have my back almost complete.

[TrixieFaux]

So great @cvportagee! Yep, I already liked that one on instagram.

[Bardun]

I was lucky to catch this angry panther on my inner bicep from Tony Hundahl when he visited Oslo last week :D

[Mark Bee]

While I had originally planned to work on my back today, we ended up filling in a few spots on my legs. The tattoos are from Dan Higgs' flash and were made by Tim Pausinger at The Pearl in Toronto.

Sigh. Sideways pic.

[Chap]

I was visiting my Friend in His new tattoo shop in the small toen of Zwolle, Holland. I saw some old flash he had laying around. I just love rosés so i Told him i Would love To have it. So he gave it To me day Well spent (otherwise i Would be at home just playing watchdogs)

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[sighthound]

Got this little guy from Nikki "Balls" Lugo at Tattoo Paradise over the weekend. She's awesome!

[Tesseracts]

Thanks everyone!

@Tesseracts great tattoo! do you have your 3rd tattoo planned yet?

Nope, I don't think I'm going to get any for a while, need to save some money. I have a bunch of ideas though.

[titforatat]

I was visiting my Friend in His new tattoo shop in the small toen of Zwolle, Holland. I saw some old flash he had laying around. I just love rosés so i Told him i Would love To have it. So he gave it To me day Well spent (otherwise i Would be at home just playing watchdogs) [ATTACH]10757[/ATTACH]

Chap-- nice work. How old is your female pirate's head that's also in the pic?? It looks like the softer colors in that piece are aging well and not fading.

[Chap]

My pirate/gypsy girl is About 2.5 years old And one of my favorites its done by Ronny Ris a Great Artist. His Son Jamie ris is Also a Great Artist does Great color Work.

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[invision]

My tattoo for this month. That's four for four.

Got this from Wan (instagram: wan_tattooer) during his visit at Idle Hand SF. Took the pic from his IG also.

[CultExciter]

I got this last night from Dave Regan while he is guesting at Classic Electric Tattoo in Frederick, Maryland. Beautiful shop, and town. I had just met Dave, but it felt like I was getting tattooed by an old friend. Fun times all around. Photo pilfered from Dave's instagram account. (@dutchraven)

[irezumi]

That's on you?!

Damn I was just talking to Dave about that piece. Fucking awesome man.

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Dave's a rad dude, good choice of image and tattooer

[gougetheeyes]

I got this last night from Dave Regan while he is guesting at Classic Electric Tattoo in Frederick, Maryland. Beautiful shop, and town. I had just met Dave, but it felt like I was getting tattooed by an old friend. Fun times all around. Photo pilfered from Dave's instagram account. (@dutchraven)

Frederick's blowin up! Still need to check that shop out when I'm home..

[CultExciter]

That's on you?!

Yeah man, I mentioned you! And thanks, it was definitely a blast. However, I had to move apartments today and I've been hiking up my pants-legs like a lady of the night. Haha.

[Tesseracts]

Cool @Zillah!

General question. I've always been curious what the sparkle/fuzzy circle is that some artists draw on koi heads. This may be a first I've seen it on the body as well come to think of it. Do you (or anyone else) know what it's supposed to be? I'm curious because after seeing it drawn often I once saw someone sketch a swastika on the koi head (possibly in it's place?) but the Client opted not to have it done for obvious reasons.

I was bored, and I Googled "forehead koi tattoo."

The Tale of the Carp Transforming to A Dragon - General Chinese Culture - China History Forum, Chinese History Forum

The carp has long been an emblem of perseverance. It was admired because it struggled against the River in He Jing District, Shansi, linked to the Yellow River. From this struggle, a legend grew up that those fish who succeeded in passing above the rapids of the Dragon’s Gate, Long Men, on the third moon of each year, had their heads burned off by lightning as they leaped over the rapids, and the face was replaced by a dragon’s face, and this was left with a mark on the forehead to distinguish themselves from others. The prolonged exertions of these fish and their eventual success in leaping the rapids became synonymous with the long struggle of the literary scholar who eventually achieved success after much persistence and toil. Thus, a fish-dragon in the shape of a carp (sometimes a sturgeon), with a dragon’s face, became the symbol of literary eminence, and someone who passed an examination for a degree was known as a “Carp who had leaped over the Dragon Gate.” Accordingly, it was commonplace to present scholars who passed with distinction a plate, or perhaps a vase, decorated with one or more dragon-fish. Several exquisite silver plates with gilt decoration have been found and are in museums around the world. The British Museum has a shard of Yue ware decorated with such a fish-dragon. Sadly, it is incorrectly described as a Makara.

: Koi Fish Legend?? TattooNOW :

When used in tattoos, especially with running water, the koi is meant to symbolize courage and the ability to attain goals and to overcome life's difficulties. When the koi in the tattoo is shown swimming upstream, it can be used to mean that the tattooee is still struggling with their problem, whereas a koi swimming downstream implies that the tattooee has already overcome their difficulty. In other cases, the koi swimming downstream can represent the season of fall, and the koi swimming upstream can represent the spring.

The specific colors you mentioned to represent the Father, mother, son, and daughter, But there are over 14 different kinds of koi, ranging in many colors. All depending pretty much on your choice. My koi tattoo is blue and white, swimming upstream. The Spot on their head? when a koi swims up the river they speak to all the animals along the path to gather the wisdom to be able to make it past the dragon gate. That spot represents the wisdom it has gathered on its journey. There ya go.

I'm not really convinced by either of these, although I bet the second one is closer. It's probably related to the Buddhist concept of the third eye.

I see this Buddha Eyes (Wisdom Eyes) Symbol - ReligionFacts used in Jondix's work a lot. I've seen similar symbols in Japanese tattoos.

[Lance]

I was bored, and I Googled "forehead koi tattoo."

The Tale of the Carp Transforming to A Dragon - General Chinese Culture - China History Forum, Chinese History Forum

: Koi Fish Legend?? TattooNOW :

I'm not really convinced by either of these, although I bet the second one is closer. It's probably related to the Buddhist concept of the third eye.

I see this Buddha Eyes (Wisdom Eyes) Symbol - ReligionFacts used in Jondix's work a lot. I've seen similar symbols in Japanese tattoos.

Thanks! I figured it had to do with enlightenment or a Buddhist philosophy or some such.

I agree though, I think there's something funny about some of what the descriptions say. There are a few contradictions I think. I'm sure there are more than a few depictions on people too, where even the artist didn't really know what it represented and mixed elements up unintentionally and just added it in because they'd seen it somewhere and thought it was cool. Not that it would bother most. It really just bugs me because I like learning about the stories and little details like that and it drives me nuts not understanding.

[SeeSea]

Latest (unfinished) addition to my back. Badly bruised, especially under my arm where you can't see. We couldn't finish the details, and the scales are barely started. He said my skin was done for the night.

I hate to put up something so incomplete, but it's going to be forever before the last layers go on anything and I'm impatient!