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Got this done last night by Heather Bailey at Spider Murphy's. Super stoked to have work by such a great artist! (First pic's stolen from her Instagram - Instagram)

I also posted this in the backpiece thread, but i'm soo stoked i just had to put it in here too :-) Well, Since today I am an official member of the Back piece squad :) We had a (pretty brutal) 5+ hour start of my backpiece, we managed to finish all the lining (except for the big flower that need to go on my upper legs). Next session will be for lining the flowers and the rest of the leg part, and to start shading... I can't wait ;-)

Sam from Silver needles, What a lovely girl One of the nicest and genuine people I have met, 9 hours on this today:) its very swollen at the moment!

I pillaged this one from Tomas Tomas's instagram and he said there that he got it from the Yokohama Tattoo Museum: That suit is so striking and powerful. I will readily admit that I am pretty ignorant about tattoos, and this photo really hammers that point home: I had no idea that there were Japanese bodysuits done like that with the heavy black and negative space. Does anybody know more about this photo?

Well, Since today I am an official member of the Back piece squad :) We had a (pretty brutal) 5+ hour start of my backpiece, we managed to finish all the lining (except for the big flowers that need to go on my upper legs). Next session will be for lining the flowers and the rest of the leg part, and to start shading... I can't wait ;-)

haven't really done anything awesome...but it is awesome that @ChrisvK and his partner in crime, doris, is actually moving up north just a couple of hours away. will be epic.

Had a big session on my back by Marius Meyer.

Sixth session, almost done! By Grez. Said goodbye to my old and very odd lower back tattoo yesterday, too.

Did a quick lil post for swallowsndaggers the other day for PCTF. And, Black Heart along with Scott have joined up. Swallows&Daggers | News | Weatherholtz Announces Pagoda City Tattoo Fest

Post of the year. Also, Two Gallants for the win @Brock Varty. I was lucky enough to see them at gilman a few times.. what a show.

I feel like everyone with a back piece is just biding their time waiting for their month to come.

Did this one yesterday, 5.5 hour one shot. Tough girl! @Wilhell I know I've already said it, but I really love your backpiece. The powder blue with the orangey reds looks real slick. :cool:

I´ve already posted this in the back piece-thread, but I throw it out here too with a better photo. Next session in March:

Here is mine from last year, done by Nick Colella: Healed, crappy photo Fresh, from Nick's IG:

Back piece started by Steve Byrne at Rock Of Ages

Dont forget the mighty Ian Flower !! Ian Flower @ianflowernst Instagram photos | Webstagram

Photo heavy post... I'll include the captions from the Life article where appropriate. Not going to post the whole Irezumi book because there's lots of images, and there's something magical about flipping through that thing... some things are best discovered through some digging. These are by far the coolest shots from it, though. The tattooer they cover is called Apache Harry. There's a shot of his travel kit and flash set up on the first page. He has a sign reading "Tattoos Removed Without Scars. Apache Harry. #22 Bowery NYC." "For decorating 'Six Ring' Dutch and other clients, tattooist Apache Harry makes $3,000 a year." "Front view of Michael Brandmaier. His 300 designs by Apache Harry are worth $400." "Rear view of Michael Brandmaier. It took four years to tattoo him all over." " 'Professor' Wagner is responsible for this girl's condition." Irezumi, 1966.

Dan Sinnes, Luxembourg Electric Paul O'Rourke, All Star Limerick That's who are impressing me right now!

Regular chem or O-Chem? Both are not fun drunk.

This is the kind of music I'm currently into as well. So many artists on here that I'm not familiar with though - I've got a lot of listening to do! Oddly, I've been listening to the New of Monsters and Men album a lot this week, and also just discovered Townes Van Zandt. Then this thread appears a day later. It's the kind of thing that makes me think there's a glitch in the matrix. Some that aren't mentioned that I like: The Tallest Man on Earth Iron and Wine The Decemberists

yesssss!

I don't have the banhammer but lumping bluegrass and folk together with indie and alternative makes me want to pulp your balls with a hammer. That said, I always have time for some Townes: And I dig that 70s British acid folk stuff quite a bit too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFl6VlorBMo

I've come back to this thread so many times just to stare at @Russ 's back. That tattoo is so fucking phenomenal.

WoopWooop!

Really nice @peterpoose

I have experienced some of this before. My thoughts are that it's probably scar tissue which has not fully settled in/healed up. A lot of bolder work can create scarring even if it's a really clean tattoo and it doesn't necessarily look off or out of place. Peoples' skin scars differently and heals at different rates, and I've had some tattoos that took several months to fully settle into the skin even after the scabbing and peeling is over. Anyway, that's my guess given some of what I've noticed with healing my tattoos. It might not necessarily be what's up with hers, but if it is, it'll probably go away within a few more months.

Okay -- so it's not the best picture of me. Lay off, guys!

I would love to see a fucking unicorn pegasus in a traditional Japanese style tattoo! That would be some hot shit!!

Pulled the tegaderm off my ribs (pics in the latest tattoo lowdown thread) last night, this stuff is amazing. Barely felt it was there during the 72 hours it was on, had a little bit of fluid underneath but it all got reabsorbed, it came off easily in the shower, just hitting it with moisturizer now. Can't imagine how annoying it would have been to heal the belt line without it. Not having to mess with it for the first three days is worth the $20. Definitely on the bandwagon.

Who tattooed me I got tattooed by a big range of guys. Allot of not very Well know but some world famous. Like hanky panky Eric perfect Chris Danley reopened (sailor Jerry's shop on Hawaii last December ) Tycho Veldhoen has worked at gtc now has his own shop in Amsterdam Martin Robson from forever tattoo Bill loika Yushi Takei did my chest piece. And for the rest allot of not very know Dutch guys. I am collector and got tattooed by 42 different people already and I would really like to get tattooed by more. My number one on my list is Luke wessman. Verzonden vanaf mijn iPhone met behulp van Tapatalk

@TaeTae, I find back of the thighs OK. The ass is way more painful. It´s actually awful! hehe.. Wow, that was a big question! My legs will not be in the same style as my back piece with traditional windbar background. My plan is to collect small and large one-shots on the rest of the body regardless of the style, and finally sew it all together with a kind of background. Maybe a flame background. I should also laser remove an entire sleeve and two other tattoos. A big project, but necessary. In October I travel to NYC / SF (with @Ninab and @Iwar) to get tattooed by Hoyer / O'Donnell / Lehi and hopefully Corbin. On the wish list for the future: Rassier, Leu, Mick, Roper, Sylvia Trevino, Ichibay, Bruno, Grime, Arriola, Deutsche, Whitehead and many more ..

@TrixieFaux @graybones @iowagirl @cltattooing I draw on myself with eyeliner too! Phew. Like iowagirl said, I'm mostly doing it at the moment to make sure I don't pester my artist!

I'll go ahead and get this month started - edit: almost!. All months should really have a panther tattoo, shouldn't they? I'd love to see Aaron Coleman three-peat.

Ok I'll go First done by the totally awesome Valerie Vargas at Frith Street Tattoo, around 40 hours work, finished a couple of weeks ago.

@semele @Wilhell @Tittleton I'd say you guys are winning at life and are making good decisions.

naturally, i am having bryan burk do my back. i am terrified. because ill be travelling i will have to do longer fewer sessions

I got all of my work (and a very lengthy final exam) turned in for my herbal program as of Monday. So... I'm done! Now to work on getting folks' tattoos healed better ;)

I really like all of these: Tas Danazoglou Alex Reinke Stewart Robson

I am forever confused by this video. I think she was serious as well... :confused:

I went ahead and did a test run with a 6" x 8" sheet of Tegaderm.... Did a shave in my thigh, Bronners soap to clean, etc. left it on a few days, just because some guys had mentioned that they had some rash/irritation on the non-tattooed skin under the sheet. I didn't have any issues with the adhesive reacting on my skin, so I guess I'll move to stage two and use it for an actual tattoo. I'll post up my experience when I do it, with progress, etc. thanks again for the comments by people with experience , it's been real helpful

I've got a painting by Jef Bertels tattooed on my leg. I've shown Jef and he liked it! http://www.jefbertels.be/ Definitely check out his art! Edit: Here's the original painting!