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got this pretty lady today from timmy tatts.

Hello everyone! It's been quiet from me for a while here now, that'a because I've been working on this leg with Marius Meyer! We did it in only three REALLY painful sessions :cool: never tattooing the side of my stomach ever again! hahah But I'm soo happy with how it turned out! Cat lady is by Chris Conn :o

Got this shaded last night by Jason Reeder. Really feeling the burn today. :D

Finished my leg by Marius Meyer yesterday, we managed to finish it in only three sessions and I'm very happy with the result!!:o Cat lady on the front is by Chris Conn

Hey guys, new member here! Thought I'd christen my first post with my [/url]first tattoo by Guy le tatooer. It is 3 weeks old. Would love to add more to it a la japanese/traditional sleeve of sorts but going up from the shoulder to the collar bone. Any ideas? Alternatively, I might just have that arm as a trad american sleeve, with just various badge pieces.

Navajo style filler by Paul O'Rourke, AllStar Tattoo, from today.

Don't miss this if you have the opportunity. Last night was pretty cool and today should be also. Apologies for vertical format; space was cramped and seemed like the best way to get as much of each body as possible.

I'm loving the sad longing looks of the girls that Danielle Rose has been producing:

I had the pleasure of hanging around while Taki checked the exhibition yesterday and did his press conference. I don't normally get involved in gallery shows and museums because they usually focus on the paintings tattooers produce which doesn't interest me as much as tattoos but this is and incredible thing for me to be part of. Mostly because of the other tattooers involved. It's a small-ish exhibit as far as museums go but there's a hell of a lot to see. I'm not going to review it, I'll leave that to others, I just wanted to share a few of the photos I took yesterday. I checked with Taki and he's ok with me posting them here but most of all: Photography is encouraged at this exhibition. If you post the shots to instagram, twitter etc. Please hashtag them #JANMtattooshow Enjoy.

I guess I will try an even the RHW vs VV count valerie was kind enough to do this tattoo at SOG from a picture of my wife @Eilin that is utterly magnificent!.

I emailed Adrian Lee and he said that it'd be great to post anything about the exhibition and that it'll be up for two months. Here's a few photos for your viewing pleasure:

And likewise I had an awesome time with @cltattooing! She was very nice to me as I choked on ceviche. It takes a lot to be graceful in that situation, hah! Looking forward to next time :) Also I got tattooed and it was awesome and I'll post pics when I get some proper ones. Much agreed with @cltattooing - so far all of the LSTers I've met have all fallen under the category of "good people" - so here's a round of back patting for us all. :p ALSO I had some really good news that I don't quite want to voice just yet, but suffice it to say that some seriously awesome stuff is happening lately and can't wait to share it when I can do so without jinxing. :D

Giving this a shot. This is my alligator tattoo done by Seth Wood who works at temple tattoo in Oakland California. We finished at Saved Tattoo in Brooklyn this Monday the third of march

Got this one done by Tony Nilsson aka Tony Tox at Blue Arms Tattoo in Oslo! On the biceps.

Finally finished up with Seth wood the other night. Here she is, the gator!

I feel like that's ALWAYS a good question.

Okay, this is just a first pass - nothing is done except maybe the sea snake but there are no highlights or shadows for him yet either. On the right, hidden are two unfinished clownfish in an anemone. He'll keep laying things out to get the whole design before he goes back to finish each part completely. Next up will be some fish and coral on the right, and in the middle will be the deep blue with some shadowed critters in the distance. Kinda frustrating that nothing will be finished until everything is finished at the last minute! FYI - This is a sea scene made from a number of pictures I've taken while diving. The sea snake I chased all over the bottom trying to get a close-up of him, only later to find out how poisonous he is! Oops! And I just love my eels!

Scott got back to me about Pagoda City, too. Nothing set in stone as it's still pretty damn far away, but looking like that's gonna happen again.

lining my whole back next saturday, Not looking forward to it at all but will get through it and post photos on here! Christian Peters is doing it.

Well, we didn't manage to make it 5 hours, I gave up after 3.5 hours :) But we did cover a lot of skin in those three and half hours, so I think we did OK :) Next session in two weeks... can't wait ;-)

I got the job I was hoping for! Wont make very much hourly for the first three months, but after that I should make good money. And the company offers an awesome profit based bonus system, which will most likely lead to my car being paid off quickly, a Triumph motorcycle, and some rad tattoos. Not necessarily in that order. I may be thinking a bit far ahead, but damn im happy now!

I'll toss in my new chest piece done by Tim Pausinger at the Pearl Harbor Gift Shop, for this month's contest.

Done by Ron Henry Wells at the Philadelphia convention. It's finally healed, so I figured I'd throw it in here.

Oh what the hell. My leg, done in November by El Monga Sasturain.

Got an appointment with Lehi for May, can't wait.

@reaperz Richard Stell and Tony Hundahl would both do an awesome job. In Dallas, Oliver Peck or Dean Williams at Elm Street. You won't be disappointed.

Just a word of advice: if you're going to come here asking for help, it probably isn't advisable to come across as a total knuckle dragger like you did in this thread even before you ask your question.

Set a new PR last night with an 8 hour sitting on my back piece. Just got home. Probably a total of 1 hour of breaks in there. And @BrianH, now I've got the formula to deal with the exhaustion and shivering. I drink a cup of no-caffeine hot tea at every break (we had about 5) and eat some food. I'm wearing leggings under sweat pants and two hoodies on backwards, with a camisole at my waist because he was working above my waist today. And fleece gloves. But the clencher was a heating pad. I tied it to the post that connects the face rest to the chair and leaned against the heating pad with my chest and stomach. It worked perfectly! That and the tea kept every single shiver away, and I finished up in much better shape after this session than my other shorter ones. Even drove 90 minutes home at 5am. Yay! Take THAT, damn shivers!

Goddamn @Eilin I think you have my favorite "collection" of tattoos on here. So good!

Well I got a reply from Scott Sylvia and I'm on for March 19th at Great Lakes. So pumped for this. Thank god the date isn't too far away!

Or still go to NYC and get an amazing tattoo from someone else.

Got this done today. 4 hours under the needle. Can't even tell it's a cover-up. Absolutely love this tattoo. Favorite one so far. Lindsay Fulk, Prismatic Ink Tattoo, Lebanon, PA.

Frank William from when i was in chicago last week.

I'll throw mine up as i've posted it in the 'latest' thread. Done by Frank Carter, not a bad 30th bday present to myself. - - - Updated - - - As a side note, the inside of the forearm is such an awkward bitch to heal. I'm constantly leaning on the fuckin thing

@OutOfIdeas congrats, that's great!!!! Saturday night I got to hang out with the wonderfully charming and badass miss @beez after she finished her apt with Junii at Diamond Club. 9 hours in two days! What a beast! Got tacos, coffee, walked around the Mission, talked tattoos and life. Really fun time. Sunday I tattooed @MadeIndelible after being interviewed for his zine project. That was a really interesting experience. I've never been interviewed before and I feel like I word vomit a lot, haha. Anyway, I'm not trying to circle jerk here, but I really recommend anyone take up the opportunity to kick it with LSTers off the board. Every single one of you that I've met so far has been really awesome. Like genuine quality folks.

Got this done by Frank Carter yesterday, nabbed the picture from his instagram as i'm too lazy to take one myself.

Ha! Alright then, here's my RH Wells from last year (march-ish I think).

I loved it the moment I saw it on IG. Glad it's on an LST-er

Fuck it. Ron Henry Wells. Done in 2011 at the State of Grace Convention. Right before he went to put the first line down, he said, "Let's give this guy a snake! A TROUSER SNAKE!"

@suburbanxcore , since you're entering your Ron Wells wolf, I'll throw in his cousin, the Ron Wells fox:

Tattooer CP. True Love Tattoo, Brisbane. Australia.

Hyottoko from Civ at the West Texas Tattoo Convention...

I was imagining something a little more subtle. Classy even. The type of dick you wouldn't mind showing your mother.

The plan was to paint a ship in a vase. Not sure how this happened, Stoked on this one! A3

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

Well, I see for the most part that there's alot of lady heads now, even by lesser known tattooers, that have the same look as Conn ladies, which of course influenced Vargas and Xam ladies... I think it's just a shift in aesthetic. There's something very captivating about the eyes on these ladies, and their popularity seems to be spreading. Hell, I even have a lady head who looks somewhat in the same vein. In all, just seems to be a shift towards what I think will become the new standard for lady head tattoos, though the real traditional looking ones will probably continue to be popular.

I am really liking seeing other people's faces! Definitely a lot of beards. I'm here to contribute another lady face. And actually I'm real excited cause I just cut all my hair off again last Monday. Hello.