August 2012 Best Tattoo of the Month Contest

[ILikePie]

I got this done yesterday at the Seattle expo by Josh Woods

[Amok]

@ILikePie - now THAT'S a piece

[chrisnoluck]

posted this in another thread but here's one I got yesterday from Max Kuhn

[pintindola]

I got the first part of my phoenix rising tattoo this past weekend. It was my first tattoo. We sat for 5 hours and it's safe to say I have the bug and can't wait for more big pieces.

I will be going to finish up with the coloring (red, yellow , orange) for the flames with blue/purple clouds beyond for some dimension.

Artist: Justin Jakus - Black Diamond Tattoo (Venice, CA) - He had a very light hand and all in all great experience for my first time. I will be getting it colored September 1st so I hope I can show you all the finished product.

[rozone]

I just had this one put on by Eli Quinters at Smith Street last week, so it's still pretty fresh.

Sorry about the bad phone photo.

Edited August 21, 2012 by rozone
fixed a typo

[Reyeslv]

@rozone that was worth the journey from Montreal to Brooklyn. Great piece, love the skull!!!!

[CultExciter]

I just had this one out on by Eli Quinters at Smith Street last week, so it's still pretty fresh.

Eli is a lot of fun to get tattooed by! Looks great.

[rozone]

@rozone that was worth the journey from Montreal to Brooklyn. Great piece, love the skull!!!!

Thanks, @Reyeslv!

It also helps that Eli Quinters is a super nice dude and that Smith Street is an awesome shop.

I can guarantee it won't be the last tattoo I get put on by him.

[Dan S]

Another piece by @Nick Colella of CTC, one-day notice to get it. Far as he can figure, Tom Berg did the flash in the thirties, and it's been on the wall fo the shop for some decades...

First step in filling in the rest of my left arm, and it should work. I have some very old western-style stuff like a panthers head on that arm, as well as some fairly old (1982-1984) Jap style work, so we have to kinda get a blending going on. Thought this piece did that well. There will be one more fairly major piece, and then fill.

Pix aren't the best, but you get the idea....I know this isn't the most rad and popluar styling, but hey, old flash for an old guy!

Background of the shop is kinda kool, too.

[eisen777]

that fucking rules(nick's tattoos are great)....i want a dragon like that.

[Dan S]

that fucking rules(nick's tattoos are great)....i want a dragon like that.

Yeah, can't really put my finger on what it is, but it just looks total old-skool to me.

While I was there, a young Lady was waiting to be tattooed by Nick, had an appointment an all that. Said she was from San Diego? Anyhow, that was where she ahd heard about Nick, so I guess people are getting hip to him...bout time!

[kylegrey]

@Dan S Thats a classic , reminds me of the winged dragons I often see on O.G.s in my part of the world . Interesting that Tom Berg was an English tattooist .

[Dan S]

@kylegrey, I THINK the wings are on the Lady...went back and forth about that, but looking at it as a whole, they seem too far back to be on the dragon, and the dragon seems too eastern for wings.

But watdafuk do I know, it's just a neat old piece, and I'm happy with it!

[CultExciter]

yeah, @Dan S, that's an incredible tattoo. My pal Andrew Conner redid an entire sheet of Berg flash that was in the "Revisited" book that Bert and Steve put out. I always thought it was classic stuff.

[hogg]

I love that one, @Dan S!

[Dumpleton]

Had some colour put in on both sides of my chest yesterday and to be honest I was not looking forward to it at all, lucky for me the pain was no where near as bad as I was expecting, still hurt like a f....r though.

[Dan S]

Had some colour put in on both sides of my chest yesterday and to be honest I was not looking forward to it at all, lucky for me the pain was no where near as bad as I was expecting, still hurt like a f....r though.

Ain't that the truth!

[SStu]

Had some colour put in on both sides of my chest yesterday and to be honest I was not looking forward to it at all, lucky for me the pain was no where near as bad as I was expecting, still hurt like a f....r though.

I think that part if the trick is thinking in advance that it's going to be horrible. Then the reality is that it just sucks without being unbearable.

[Smokey]

Another piece by @Nick Colella of CTC, one-day notice to get it. Far as he can figure, Tom Berg did the flash in the thirties, and it's been on the wall fo the shop for some decades...

First step in filling in the rest of my left arm, and it should work. I have some very old western-style stuff like a panthers head on that arm, as well as some fairly old (1982-1984) Jap style work, so we have to kinda get a blending going on. Thought this piece did that well. There will be one more fairly major piece, and then fill.

Pix aren't the best, but you get the idea....I know this isn't the most rad and popluar styling, but hey, old flash for an old guy!

Background of the shop is kinda kool, too.

Gotta love nicks work... headed that way again soon

[Dumpleton]

Will look even better once it heals

[Dude]

I dig your style man.

*edit* I think I screwed this up. I was trying to comment on Dans's photo a couple of pages back. I will leave it here for posterity.

[slayer9019]

@Dan S now that is a awesome tattoo. Every time you post up a new one it makes me want to go out and get another!

[Dan S]

@Dan S now that is a awesome tattoo. Every time you post up a new one it makes me want to go out and get another!

Thanks man...I know 'ZACTLY what you mean!

Right now I'm going back n forth with my cousin-in-law in Moscow to see if there is any way I can figure to get a piece from Den Yakovlev...guys stuff is just too trip.

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I think that part if the trick is thinking in advance that it's going to be horrible. Then the reality is that it just sucks without being unbearable.

I've also found that with ribwork especially, a 7.5 Vicodin washed down with 5mg of Valium is really not even horrible...

[Dog Trainer]

First step in filling in the rest of my left arm, and it should work. I have some very old western-style stuff like a panthers head on that arm, as well as some fairly old (1982-1984) Jap style work, so we have to kinda get a blending going on.

Nick did an awesome job of blending the new colors to the old! Can't wait to see what they come up with to finish off that arm.

...and I do believe the wings are on the Lady. It may not be real obvious in the photos that Dan posted, but the proportions are all wrong for the wings to be on the dragon.

[Patriot Ink Tattoo]

....Just a guess, but Dan S for the win this month?..