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My Kannon inspired, forearm cattoooo from Horitomo - State of Grace, San Jeeezzy, California (January 2014). Yaaaaaay for Horitomo! Yaaaay cattoooos! Yaaaay tattooooos!!:D:o

Here's a couple from my trip to New York last month. A pin-up from Steve Boltz and a cheeky little eagle from Dan Santoro.

I got this gnarly thing from Jason Kelly here in Atlanta. I love it.

I'm always amazed by the awesome tattoos that are posted in this thread, I thought I'd have a go myself. Apologies for flashing so much of my underwear. This was done by Paul Dobleman while doing a guest spot at Frith Street.

By Mike Rubendall at Kingsave NYC. Still need to add some patterns on the veil. Any suggestions?

Here's my satyr lady head from Marie Sena all healed up

HOT STUFF RIDING A FLYING PIG by OllieXXX www.goodoldfashiontattoos.com "holy shit, this awesome...but my wife is going to kill me!"

Totally side-tracking the new contest, but when I need to see @Lance 's feet.... @KBeee, I just type "Horitomo monmon cats" in google images and they pop right up:

ha! you guys sure know how to make a man blush. I did finally get a little pizza tattoo.

busy month! got some fun sailor jerry flash from ryan shaffer the other day and this ishikawa goemon head from koji ichimaru and a tengu from liam alvy oh, don't think I posted my higgs mummy from austin maples yet whoops. shout out to uncle sam for the tax return. no more for a while, ha. p.s. inner bicep fucking sux. not looking forward to doing the other arm.

Greetings canvases of all colors and nationalities! Got a fancy new tat zap that you just can't wait to show off to the internet? Maybe a new pair of squid pants? Well then look no further! Post it up here, in LST's very own "Tattoo of the Month" Contest! Only question is, do YOU have what it takes to be "LST Ink Master Canvas April 2014"???? Enter to earn the title (...and a complimentary LST shirt) Here are the rules: The tattoo picture that gets posted in this thread for April 2014 with the most 'likes' for the month wins! The contest starts on the first of the month and ends on the last day of the month. Your tattoo picture must be posted in this thread (both tattooers and tattoo customers can win) in order to qualify. Include with your photo/post...tattoo artist name & tattoo shop. You MUST be the one who has the tattoo or did the tattoo. You can 'like' as many tattoos as you want. It can be a finished or in progress tattoo. You cannot enter the same tattoo in more than one contest. Fundoshi's are encouraged, but not required.

Pretty much

@Mark Bee - I know I'm 3 weeks late to the party, but here are my favorites: Steve Byrne - Instagram Bailey Hunter Robinson - lady | Copper Beehive - Tattooing by Bailey Hunter Robinson _MG_3183 | Copper Beehive - Tattooing by Bailey Hunter Robinson IMG_4531 | Copper Beehive - Tattooing by Bailey Hunter Robinson

Those are are amazing! Probably the loveliest I've seen!

Here are a couple of lady heads that I have. The first one is about 11 years old in the picture. The second one is a couple of days old and healing in that picture after I picked it up last summer (as you can tell by the scab on her upper lip). Both were done by Robert Frazier from Winston Salem, NC.

Finished my Eagle/Rose Tattoo last night. Done by Karl Williams @ Dubuque Tattoo Club. Very happy with how it turned out!!

I just made an appointment to get a tattoo from Jeff Rassier at the end of April. Was hoping to make additional appointments with other tattooers but it doesn't look like it's going to work this time. Pretty hard to make appointments months or years ahead of time when you live in another country. I've recently been wishing Japanese tattoos were my thing so that I could get tattooed locally more often.

@Iwar Thanks man! I got very lucky with that one. I had put my name down months ago in case Koji had any cancellations and I totally forgot about it. Happened to be randomly working from home and got a call from Adorned asking if I could be there in the next hour. Got the okay from my boss, jumped on my bike, and pedaled over. Even got a flat on the way, but still made it haha. Soo stoked that worked out. Particularly happy with the placement of that one. Really glad I had saved that spot!

I love this piece by Horimomo. Outline with a machine and shaded by tebori

My name is Corey. I'm a Tattooer from Georgia now working in Jacksonville, Florida. I'm socially awkward, so, I figured networking would help me out. I would like to start doing some guest spots in the near future and I am hoping to meet some new people that can help me out. Hopefully, I can get some photos uploaded soon and I look forward to being a part of this forum.

With a title mentioning the adverse consequences of having babies, I SO misread the name of the actual blog.

@irezumi This is Shinola! @Corey Steverson Nice stuff dude.

The Lord loves a working man, don't trust whitey, see a doctor and get rid of it.

^ Love those. Quilts and Color comes to the MFA in Boston next week. A lot of what excites me most in art can be found in stuff like textile design, so I'm really psyched about this. Need more tattoos that look like quilts.

Well shit! That's a new discovery for me @TrixieFaux. Btw I just posted a screenshot of it in my gallery for you too, @KBeee.

Hey, no fair...you already have TWO, Mr. Greedy McGreedykins! Also, I would love it if you added them to your gallery so we don't have to search through the January ToTM thread to look at them...just sayin' :D But yes, more is better.

I thought Hannya were female?

^just needs a bigger, better one.

I read an article a while back about a surgeon who had an appreciation of tattoos, and felt bad when he had to operate and cut a tattoo. He said that if he had the time, he would spend an extra half hour really working to line up the edges of the tattoo when he closed. I don't recall much about the article, but I got a real sense that he respected the work and wanted to honor the work and take the extra time to address the art as well as the medical procedure. Pretty cool. Makes me think that could be a consideration if it came down to two docs and you had to choose one!

I finished this painting this morning. A friend commissioned it for her two year old daughter who loves Snoopy. It was super fun to do and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The skeleton is for size comparison, and because skeletons make everything better.

I completely agree. I've been getting acupuncture done on and off for the last 10 years or so, and I'm definitely in the 'can't avoid it' category. I've never had any problems. Can I derail for a second and say how awesome my last acupuncture guy was? When I was on my first visit to his office I was looking through his portfolio in the lobby (when have you ever seen a doctor with a portfolio before) and on one page it showed pictures of a surgery being done in Japan when he was working in a hospital where one of his roles was being an anesthesiologist. This patient was getting brain surgery done while he was awake but with receptors being blocked; literally cap peeled back but fully alert and smiling as he sips some water or eats a bite of apple. Mind blown, no pun intended.

...and this is how you end up with a penis backpiece.

Japanese manhole covers

I want a bodysuit from Roland.

Brutal Knitting by Tracy Widdess

Haven't seen a dedicated all-around art thread, and Hogg couldn't think of one either. Tattoo-related or not. Stuff you've done or stuff you like. Hobo Nickels: Appalachian History » Hobo Nickels Coin collectors today consider the hobo nickel a numismatic treasure, a tribute to long- forgotten folk artists who often literally carved for their supper. The Buffalo nickel debuted in 1913, but it wasn’t until the Great Depression struck that hobo nickel carving reached its peak. During this period, buffalo nickels were the most common nickels in circulation. The sudden scarcity of jobs in the early 1930s forced a huge number of men to hit the road. Certainly some coins were carved to fill the idle hours. More importantly, a ‘knight of the road,’ with no regular source of income, could take one of these plentiful coins and turn it into a folk art piece, which could in turn be sold or traded for small favors such as a meal or shelter for a night. In a community of generally anonymous drifters, two carvers rose to prominence among hobo nickel creators. Bertram ‘Bert’ Wiegand was born in 1880 and carved from 1913 to 1949. He signed his coins by removing L I and Y from L I B E R T Y, leaving only B E R T. He tutored the man coin collectors consider the giant of hobo nickel carving: George Washington ‘Bo’ Hughes (born between 1895 and 1900 in Theo, Mississippi). Bert met the young teenager in a jungle, or hobo camp, along the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio railroad line, and Bo’s first nickels appeared two years later, in 1915. Bo carved till about 1980, when he was last seen by his friend of 40 years, Williard Chisolm, in a Florida camp. Life as a hobo took its toll: the rigorous manual labor Bo undertook to survive during the money-tight, poverty-ridden 30s rendered his hands stiff and permanently damaged. Frequent beatings by ruthless detectives prowling railroads (where many hobos resided) in search of freeloaders and thieves compounded his dexterity impairment. Nevertheless, devoted to his craft, Bo worked through the pain and frustrating impediments throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s, but in 1957, while he was working on a nickel, his chisel suddenly slipped and struck his hand. The injury forced the once-great hobo nickel engraver to resort to a haphazard punching method. Bo continued his work, but with less frequency and diminished quality, and as America moved into the post-war era genuine hobo nickels became a thing of the past. The U.S. Mint ceased striking Buffalo nickels in 1938. Skull Nickels: Skull Nickels | Colossal A number of Hobo Nickel artists etched away the flesh of the subject to reveal these awesomely macabre skulls.

I'm sure a bunch of you saw this all over Instagram already, but Troy Denning started Invisible Radio. It's a podcast, and in episode one he interviews Matt Vancura and Chris Garver. It's a little scattered and kinda awkwardly paced, but overall it's a solid first episode. Worth checking out.

I am Eli Draughn from Nashville, tn. just finished my apprenticeship under Ian White at Safe House Tattoo Studio. looking forward to having such a vast place to search for answers to questions and seek opinions of others

Hi Beez, just googled those sorts of tattoos briefly and they are a style I have always liked although I wasn't aware of the title of them. Another great post, thanks very much for the advice. Made more progress on deciding on a tattoo in 4 hrs on this forum than weeks checking online Thanks Damo

I'm suspicious this may be an April Fool "story"...

LOL - kinda like giving her a pattern to know where to put the staples! Hmmm, maybe we should get a very light tattoo of graph paper before a surgical procedure to help them line up the skin afterwards. :D

Here's my eagle from Dan Santoro.

Go to a street shop that's been around for a good long while and they'll have loads of the stuff.

Gonna get some Juan Puente lettering done this weekend. I pretty much have zero lettering on me, so this'll be exciting to add.

Back from Hong Kong and everything went really well. The design and placement was a little different then I was expecting but overall really happy about everything. 16 total hours over 3 days. The last day was a little uncomfortable but overall the pain was very tolerable. All I ended up taking was Motrin to help with swelling. Not sure if it did or didn't help. Had a good breakfast every morning and unfortunately really didn't get a chance to experience much of Hong Kong. After each session was just ready to get back to the hotel. Attached are some pics. The detail of the brush stokes will be more visible once it's healed.

I was thinking the same thing. Ganesh recently converted, I guess.

Erik Desmazieres. This hits all the right notes for me:

Don't let the stupid nickname put you off! I'm obsessed with tattooing and I can't wait to learn everything I can about it, heartbroken that I only realised my obsession at the ripe old of age of 28 - all those wasted years, I've got a lot of catching up to do :D x