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Here it is, my naked self on a cold winters night...finished and healed pics of my back by Dean Sacred.

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.

I think it's time I try my luck in one of these. Done by Chad Koeplinger.

I had my consult with Rose Hardy. We are going to go bigger and make it a nice sized leg piece. She's going to be back in the winter and eventually moving to NYC. I'm kind of excited to do a big piece and have a nice work in progress. It'll suck having to wait but make for a killer tattoo. And it works out great because I was planning on holding off after this summer and maybe getting some small one shot tattoos, but working on a big piece over time is going to be a cool new experience. And Grez is awesome like every one said. Every time I go to Kings Ave he always remembers me and wants to see how my tattoos have settled in and ask how my wedding planning is going haha. He is so committed to his clients, great dude.

Appointment booked with Ian Flower for a dragon / flowers sleeve .

Our daughter told us we couldn't get the one with the skull on it. "No skulls!", she announced. We got it anyway. Bad parents. If it really freaks her out, we may have to put it aside for a bit until she grows out of this phase. @DJDeepFried was all, "But look honey, it's smiling, it's not scary, it's a cute happy skull!" Still no dice.

Update: As of today, I also have an appointment with Ashley Love at New York Adorned for a mermaid & anchor design in late August.

You make great decisions, my friend.

Done by Steve Byrne at Rock of Ages Austin, Texas.

I think this is a flash forward into my future.

Hah, this is exactly why I don't have any spider tattoos. Or why most of my Michael Parks artwork is in the attic.

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

Here is the start of my dragon sleeve. I am very excited for my next session. Will be black and grey with some red accents and continue up to my shoulder. Work being done by Carter Gillis @ Designs by Dana in Cincinnati.

The Tattoo Elite International ones are about 4x5 but on 8x10 paper (or something like that) so no matting necessary! Stick them in a frame and you're good. We just got the second set of prints yesterday.. @Pugilist sent them to a friend in NYC because they don't ship internationally and she came up for a visit and brought them along...so now we're only missing one of the Tattoo Elite International prints. Going to get this apartment painted and then have a Horitomo cat wall of our own.

So because people seem stoked on this painting ill be doing a PRE ORDER ONLY run of prints of this painting. They'll be on high quality paper and full size. £50 for collection In the UK (Stowmarket, Suffolk) £60 with UK postage and £66 with worldwide postage. PayPal payment AS GIFT to [email protected] With your address please Please reblog or spread the word Thankyou :)

Glad to hear all the good things. I know I've enjoyed his work for years, and he seemed super nice at the consult. I'll obviously post pics once it's done.

Thanks @ironchef & @Lance! I was super bummed I missed out on the first set of four -- mostly because I loved the tebori cat one -- but I wouldn't have thought to look on Tattoo Elite International. @TrixieFaux & I just picked up those top three -- and I think I like those the best! For sure we want to get them framed & matted all classy-like like how you have 'em.

Yeah, Grez will be doing two pretty traditional looking panther(ish) heads, but with the coloring of my two cats on the back of my leg. I'm giving him some freedom with the background/filler though. I booked back in February or March for September, and I can't wait.

Hotel and Flights booked! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Thanks for sharing this, @Deb Yarian! What a lucky kid. Not only does he have the fortune of being born into a great tattoo family, but he also gets to go to an Ivy League Tattoo School for the summer.

I haven't seen many (any?) portraits win this, so either this will buck the trend or become one of many.

Hell yes. After all, this is all just tattoo porn. May as well have some ass in it, too. :cool:

Final sitting on my left arm sleeve with Mo Coppoletta (TFB) in August, and booked in for another two days in Tokyo for work on my front by Tomo (Yellow Blaze). That's November... going to be a flying visit. When these are done it's the last of the big work for me, I'm going to fill in what's left in one-shot tattoos that I ration out :) Not been posting much because I've been busy with work, moving house and getting married (18 days away). Still lurking though...!

Finally have a new finished piece to enter the contest! Not expecting to win, but it's a good way to show off my finished tattoo by Kore Flatmo! The pictures were taken in May by Kore when we finished up. Yay! :D

This is on my friend Nate. Taken from Brian Bruno's instagram.

Gogue

Thank you for vastly decreasing my output at work today!

Nobody thinks it makes sense, not even the "fat cat" types, they are just simply in the position to pull it off and lack moral backing. Agreed. When things are run by the government they end up being terrible because government has no competition. With no competition, why would they function properly when just passing for piss-poor performance can suffice with a nearly unlimited flow of tax dollars flowing in (not even going to get into how taxation is technically illegal and the IRS is not a government org and blah blah blah). A great example of no competition/everyone gets a "fair share" is Russia. Talk to anyone who lived in Russia under Soviet control...its was a fuckin mess. The car technology was haggard at best (hell look at Urals...1940s tech that you can still purchase!) and everything was pretty much along the same lines. Also countries where there is universal health care, from what I've been told, you usually opt for private insurance anyway to skip the insane waits. So...back to square 1