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My pig and rooster from my tattooers IG. Tried to stitch it together. Already told one person I just like wings and ham.. Told another I like corn flakes and bacon.. Hahaha next person, I'm going to tell I'm sponsored Kellogg's hahaha seriously though I love these.. Hope you guys enjoy

It's been a little bit since I posted in here. Loving everything about my new surroundings. Great friends, great shop, healthy living, 20 minutes from any one of three mountain trails and 30 minutes from 3 more. Morning hike/runs every day at mentioned trails and snowboarding as much as possible. Getting the snowmobiles and trailer ready to go for next week. Full moon sunrise panoramas are my new monthly mission December January I have a favorite little tree friend that I see every hike on Eagle Wind Trail. An awesome name, and named so for the Golden Eagle nests right on the crest of the ridge. One of the other things I picked up at the deVita show [/img] Being responsible by making sure to have fun Multiple tatshop bro birthday party/shred at Vail, with the Feuerzangenbowle. Yeah, wiki that. Feuerzangenbowle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Epic sunrises/sunsets - - - Updated - - - A really cool art show I went to at the Botanical Gardens in the Bronx; at least 50 or 60 landmark NYC buildings and houses made of nothing but twigs, acorns, bark, pine cones, tree resin, etc. Only the glue is man made. Oh and it has whatever large scale trains going all through it. I was blown away. ^the original Penn Station, for those of you non-New Yorkers. The size of these things are deceiving in the pics, they're huge. The little lighthouse under the GW bridge Guggenheim - - - Updated - - - damn 20 pic limit - - - Updated - - - When someone posts something, a word or whatever, I'll be able to show the other train show pics.

Hello and welcome. The artist who did the tattoo will have the best advice about healing and aftercare, so the best idea is to contact them if you have any questions about how your tattoo is healing. That said, I'd stop with the ointment and let the scabs dry out. Keep the tattoo clean and dry and you should be good.

Oh I am sort of jealous of you fitness dedicated folks. The holidays totally sucked that away from me and into piles of homemade cookies that are still circulating through my house. I'm not even sure how that's possible. Too many... That being said, I did just get back from traveling in Israel. Woo! That's the view of the Dead Sea, looking towards Jordan from the top of Masada.

This past summer, I was sitting on the bench at Congress St tattoo, waiting for Chad Koeplinger to finish up the appt before mine. Turns out he was running a bit later than I initially thought and it was going be a little while till we could start. Soooo, I took advantage of the extra time and had Jebb Riley start a pretty huge panther coverup. Honestly, while I had been planning on covering up an older tattoo that I have, I didn't approach Jebb with that idea initially, but rather I just wanted get a nice medium sized tattoo by an artist I really liked, while I waited for Chad. After looking at his very awesome sketch book, I saw a really awesome little panther, and well, one thing led to another, and I couldn't be happier. The night of my appt with Chad, he just lined the panther. This past Saturday he added the roses (love them), and did most of the shading. 4 and 1/2 hrs, and not all of it peachy :) One more session to go for some more shading and color. Jebb is an awesome dude, and I had a blast getting this tattoo. btw- initials were clearly there before, and spared during the coverup (hoping to have him clean them up the next time) The actual tattoo getting covered is a medium sized celtic knot tattoo from about 20 years ago. It was done well initially, then I made the mistake of having someone else touch it up. It was scarred and screwed from then on. SORRY ABOUT THE SAGGY PANTS!! I was a mess at the end. ---fixed pics! Thanks @MadeIndelible ----

I just had to revive this thread with this...

Thanks man! Original Yankee Stadium Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Hell's Gate Bridge, huge scale. Trains running everywhere. TWA terminal at JFK Radio City, Rockefeller Center, etc Detail of the façade at the NY Public Library The Cloisters St. John's Look at the creative ways to put it all together, such genius

and if you do continue to use ointment or lotion try out using far less. rather than leaving a big shiny layer put on a tiny amount and rub it all the way in. a good rule of thumb is if it's shiny, there's generally too much stuff on it.

Got this done at Black Garden Tattoo in London by Tutti Serra, super stoked with it

I think Jellyfish tattoos a pretty cool. A lot of them that I see though remind me of Ernst Haeckel's paintings. For those who don't know who on earth he was, he was a biologist/artist and whole load of other things around the end of the 19th start of the 20th century. Anyway I've put some of his paintings below so that you can see what I mean about the similarity in between his work and jellyfish tattoos. It might just be me seeing similarities that aren't really there but especially the picture with the coloured jellyfish on it I feel has been referenced a lot. Which is great because it's awesome.

From Tony Caporusso in Ann Arbor.

I swear it seems like I post on here alot, but here goes: I saw my bf again after 3 months apart due to medical reasons. We had a wonderful day and I told him I loved him. He also met my parents. Very cool day.

I spoke to another Veteran at my work yesterday. He was pretty covered, and out of curiosity I asked him politely where he got his tattoos (or pieces of crap, as he called them) done at. He couldn't remember the artists who did most of them, but he pointed out two specific ones. He told me that he got two (on his outer biceps) done by Charlie Wagner in Portsmouth, Virginia. He told me Charlie mixed the ink with his spit then said "tattooing has changed a lot from those days". I wish I could have spoke with him a little more, but I didn't want to keep him from going about his day.

Kings Avenue is THE place. I had Grez tattoo my chest many years ago. the vibe of the place, the world class talent they have under one roof. so goddamned good. also, the deli two doors down is a great place to eat before you get laced up.

even better, post up examples of his sterilization set up and supply of varying disinfectants... far more important than what the tattoos look like.

here is a Valerie Vargas lady head done from a picture of my wife

Hi all, Small update on how it went on Friday: Aside from train troubles between Londen and Brighton, everything went rather well. My blood is thinner, that was to be expected, but the bleeding didn't make it much harder for the artist. So we were able to do almost 4 hours. Me very happy, one more session and it will be done. For anyone who might be in the same situation: the medication didn't make it impossible to get the tattoo for me, and the healing seems to be going rather smooth. Maybe a little to early to say, but no troubles what so ever. Grtz, Arne

I have a bunch of Haeckel tattooed on me. Art Forms in Nature is an amazing book.

I had a friend who was visiting in Milwaukee from Albany, NY and he asked me a good artist to start a navy sleeve. He had been getting his tattoos done by some guy who discounts sailors, all Super Mario characters which look terrible by the way. I pointed him towards a couple artists I was familiar with around town who do some great tattoos. I asked him a couple days later if he booked an appointment yet, he said he would just go to his guy back in Albany because the guy gives a discount to Navy guys. I just left it at that. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

I've been on a long road trip across America, and on the way, I've gotten my first couple tattoos. The compass rose is from Cassady Bell at Sideshow Odditorium in Portland, OR, the banjo is Ryan McDonald in Nashville TN. My friends definitely give me some shit for having a banjo on my arm, but I love it. Banjos are rad. :cool:

My sister asked me to touch her stomach tonight.... and I felt my nephew kick for the 1st time. I think I am the only person outside of my sister to feel him kick

flipper fucking yes!!!:) took a look in the mirror and realized i also have a hellbastard tattoo and a eyehategod one....

I have b&g realism on one side and colour japanese on the other . I think it works really well. Heres a poor photo of me with my tits out.

I would say both parents and administrators are more than ok with visible tattoos. I´ve got full sleeves and wear tattoo or band shirts for work every day. No prob. I guess hands could make a difference while applying for jobs, but I like to think that there´s lots of schools here who would appreciate teachers for their job, not judging tattoos.

Huh. He looks a bit like David Cross.

@iowagirl & @graybones I have printed, resized, reprinted, cut out, and taped numerous images to my body. It never quite works in showing what it would look like as a tattoo since the paper is always awkward and the background is too white, but it gives some idea of how it could look and maybe more than anything works in getting me psyched!

That rules. I'm a 7th grade teacher and I'm pretty sure I'd be fired on the spot if I had those on my hands. But I'd be stoked. Haha.

Thought this belonged in this thread, slideshow of 20 sheets of 100+ year old flash accompanies the article: A treasure trove of antique tattoo flash is found in Corpus Christi - The Texican

What you get out of tattoos has a lot to do with the effort you put into getting them. Coming here and saying you want a good tattoo when you seemingly can't be bothered doing any legwork yourself, not even to the extent of looking through portfolios on the internet and seeing what you respond to, doesn't bode well for you.

whoops. looks like I exceeded the bandwidth on my photobucket account. lets try again.

Got this compass & rose a few days ago by Avi Nassi at Psycho Tattoo in Tel Aviv, Israel. Will add colors in the next session. Sorry for the crappy pic...

I have never had someone listen to my advice on tattoos, at least apart from LST. It's frustrating, especially when my little sister gets a giant shitty tattoo on her forearm then tells me that I have ulterior motives when giving her advice.

new dmitry vision piece and john barrett piece healed, start to big cat leg sleeve

I lost twenty pounds in December and continue to lose weight. Wake up and walk to the beach in Santa Cruz every morning. I moved to Santa Cruz Dec 1 after living in Oakland and San Jose my entire life and am loving it here.

I belong to a jewelry forum, and it's not uncommon for members to draw things to scale and cut them out, tape them wherever the jewelry will be worn to get an idea how things will look, get some perspective. (I've done it myself) Has anyone gotten that obsessive w/tattoo placement? I ask b/c I mentioned tattoos above my knees to my husband and he thinks it would look funny unless they were large pieces. So now I want to print out some heads and tape them to my legs. Does this mark me as insane?

And whatever her influences, there's so much life in her lady heads...hell, in all her tattoos...that she's really made them her own.

Here's a healed shot of the rose and dagger I got from Scott Sylvia at the Richmond Convention.

Here's my tattoo. Done by Lillian Chen in Yorktown, VA at Ancient Art.

Alex Snelgrove tattoos at the Okey Doke Tattoo Shop in Toronto and has been tattooing with electric machines for only a couple of years. Here's a link to her instagram: Instagram And some photos lifted from it: And this is a stick n' poke portrait she did:

Been pretty busy recently. Driving cross country to California with my friend since he is moving there. Gunna hit Vegas for sure. Taking the jeep out for a few days in the pine barrens for camping and off-roading. Possibly picking up a 1969 CJ5 and breaking out the new millermatic to weld up some fun stuff.

All-time favorite is on a friend of mine, mostly because of how silly it is. What do gorillas think about? Bananas, duh. By Drew Rash. Additionally, here are three I've seen on Instagram recently that I've loved. Another Tim Hendricks. Squeezing a readable ROA on there blows my mind. Grez. Does it get better than classic roses on a hand? Grime. And to totally tweak out the classic rose, a rose skull morph.

@hogg Oliver Macintosh is too good , this is one of the toughest tattoos ever

Chris Rigoni, apprentice tattooer at Holdfast Tattoo in Australia, since 2012 Instagram

These are my hands. The bird by Bailey Robinson and the panther by Steve Byrne. The knuckles and little guys were done by Vinse One. Actually Matt Arriola did the anchor.

I am a stout appreciator of the holiday season. My house smells awesome, the shop has christmas lights up, and we're getting a little tree! I have also just put an end to a really unhealthy relationship that I've been engaging for like 6 years, and while part of me is sad, the bigger part is like FUCK YEAH, I'M FREEEEE

I believe that is a Zeis design, although I've been wrong so many times before. Anyone of those old timers could have done it.

I have Swans.carcass.melvins.neurosis tattoos. I'm general the older I get the less I like band related tattoos. Even tho i still love the bands music

Natural progression. Eagle is to Owl as Octopus is to Jellyfish. I really don't have any evidence to back that up, but it sounds nice.

i haven't really got anything helpful to say re placement.. i didn't know i was going to want to be tattooed as much as i am (and continue to be) when i started out. I think its always a really good idea to listen to your artists opinion on placement cos generally they know where a tattoo's going to work best.... i'm a bit of a fan of the 'jumbled' look anyway.. i know that doesn't solve your problem but i guess what i'm trying to say is placements something only you and your tattooer can decide. There's no right or wrong.. in my person opinion :)