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here is my finished panther and roses tattoo by Jebb Riley, done at Congress St Tattoo in Portsmouth, NH. (finished last friday) I keep forgetting this is actually a coverup. The butt / thigh covers up an originally well done celtic knot that was touched up HORRIFICALLY by another artist after I moved from miami to NY in 1995. Lived with it for almost 20 yrs before covering. Not sad to see it go. Very difficult to photograph as it wraps around my arm and starts at the top of my shoulder, ending below the ditch in my elbow. Jebb did a nice pic stitch so I stole this from his instagram. Still, with the glare, and the bleeding, this pic doesn't even come close to doing justice to it. Started in July of 2013. Panther outlined right before my second and last session on my chest with Chad Koeplinger (he was running late, so why not?). Sessions were spaced very widely apart due to me starting my backpiece with Chad last year. Jebb has been very understanding. Total time on this is about 9.5 hours. Jebb Riley is a super great tattooer and and even nicer dude. Super stoked with how this all came together.

I recently finished a short documentary that profiles Norwegian tattooer Morten Transeth. I also added English subtitles to the best of my ability, so remember to switch captions (CC) on if you need 'em :) Go to http://instagram.com/morten_transeth to see more of his work. Thanks for watching!

I had my favorite tattooer in the world, Erick Lynch do this on Friday at Redemption in Cambridge Ma. My girl and I have been together for 7 1/2 years and got married in October…. So, I got her name finally :-) I'll have to repost this when it heals.

On my way to arlanda airport in stockholm for my flight to Barcelona. Two full days of backpiece awesomeness with Jondix to look forward to!

Any LSTers have this awesome Stewart Robson backpiece I am obsessing on (circa 2011)? I really need to see the finished pics. He's like crack. I can't give him up. I don't want to travel for work anymore buuuuut....

Don't have a pic showing them together, but chest eagle and pharaoh's horses belly is what I went with.

@exume I love that piece. It's absolutely bad ass!! Here is my contribution. Also by Chad. Finished about a year and a half ago. I went a bit smaller. One heck of an experience. Some very rough moments for sure!!! Chad is the best though! 2 sessions.

Few hours of shading progress yesterday by Will Lollie at Empire in Asheville.

That's a huge compliment dude. Thank you so much. I have to give a lot of credit to Morten, his client Petter and the guys at Blue Arms for letting me do this. I'm sure it wasn't exactly fun having to work with a camera hovering over you the entire time. He did a great job ignoring me though, and for that I'm thankful :)

Back with Chad K at Congress St Tattoo on feb 27th for my 4th session on my back!!!!! This one he is calling a "power session", which honestly just sounds terrifying!! He is finishing the lines and hoping to also finish all of the black shading!! Should be "fun"!!! Seriously though, I'm super excited!

Needles and Sins Tattoo Blog | Artist Spotlight: Morten Transeth, Blue Arms Tattoo

Thanks for all the kind words everyone. That really means a lot coming from fellow enthusiasts like yourselves. I would love to make more, but as of now I don't have any concrete plans. @mmikaoj you should definitely do some interviews if you can. I'd love to see that, and I'm sure everyone else here would too! There are lots of easy to use editing software out there, and youtube can be a great resource for learning basic editing. You can actually make pretty decent looking stuff these days with just an a couple of smartphones and a laptop. Go for it! Maybe you saw it already, but I made a short video of Marius tattooing my friend @Wilhell a little while back: Oh, and thank you so much for sharing it on your blog!

My wife has zero tattoos and no plans on getting any in the future. That said, she appreciates them, and has no issues with them at all. She loves mine, or at least that what she tells me. She did ask me not to get my stomach tattooed, and was leery when I was going to have Chad tattoo my chest... though her first words upon seeing the outline were "fucking awesome!!".... Side note- she actually drove me to and from the tattoo shop when I was 18 yrs old getting my first tattoo (an infiniti sign on my hip to hide from my parents...and it wasn't played out or cliche in 1992... The tattoo artist actually asked me if i meant the sideways 8 or the car logo.......I started a massive and terrible fad!!! LOL) We all have our things. If we hate the things our significant other is into, then it can be a problem I guess. Luckily for me, my wife is extraordinarily tolerant of all of my weird interests, hobbies, and collections.

A. Great Calvin Candy drop. B. It's chaos. I always say I'm not going to go. Then I go. Then I think "man, I shouldn't have gone." Then I'll run into friends and we make fun of Pitbulls, Al Flictions and Eddie Munsters.

All healed up for now. 2 sessions in with Chad

For first timers of the Philly Tattoo Convention... It can be a bit much. Think 800+ tattooers. And pit bull rescue booths with dogs wandering around. And Al Fliction from Stink Master. And Dante from Clerks. And Eddie Munster.

@ironchef I. Can't. Even. It hurts my feelings its so good.

@Iwar that was great! nice camera work, too. can't wait to see what else you put together, thanks for posting!

Excellent job!! I found a card for Blue Arms randomly in the bathroom of a bar in NYC once, I thought that was a rad coincidence given my interest in the shop. Very cool to learn more about the folks working there. I'll be posting this to my blog as well :)

Getting this one colored in this Saturday after 4 months of waiting. I'm already planning my next piece and will probably travel out of state for it.

I watched this yesterday. Loved it, echoing the previous comments, it is a really well made video with obvious love and care put into it. I've pointed people in the direction of the Tattoo Age/Gypsy Gentlman videos in the past who perhaps know nothing/very little about tattooing to open their eyes up a bit (which has succeeded BTW) this will certainly be added to the list. Thanks!

I'm healing a crunchy, stingy bastard on my upper thigh. I'll be glad when this is done.

Pretty sure that ^ belongs to @asradin who has lots of stuff from Stewart .

@Iwar This was so awesome! Excellent in every way! Reminds me a lot of the same love and care that the Gypsy Gentleman videos gave to tattooing.

Badass! This is most likely the size I'll be going with. Great piece!

@Iwar That was so great!! I saw you post something on your instagram but didn't know you'd done it. Really nice man, perfect way to start my morning! Can we expect more? Are you the new Norwegian tattoo ambassador?

Oh, nice! Going to watch it straight away. I like his stuff too. Edit, a bit later: Well done, in every way! Blue Arms seems like a real power house of a tattoo shop, absolutely have to visit next time I'm in Oslo. Are you planning to do more of these? Actually I've been thinking for a long time about doing some interviews about Swedish tattooers, but only with photos and text since I don't know my way around video editing well enough. I very much enjoyed watching this, @Iwar So cool to see some, non-bullshit, tattoo media coming from other places than the States. We have a plethora of great artists in Scandinavia that deserves to have their work known. Another Norwegian I would like to see something similar about is Marius Meyer. I'll post this video on my tattoo-blog thing so you reach to some more people!

So many great tattoos!! Haven't been on in a while, so it was pretty awesome to go through a whole bunch of pages on this thread and see so much amazing shit going down!!!! @mmikaoj OMG!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!? Jaw dropping...just stunning man. I just finished my big arm panther and roses with Jebb Riley. I'll post pics soon. Super happy with it.

@Pugilist Thanks!! Total fact! @pidjones I am sorry. I should have just gotten the car logo.

Thinking along these lines. Perhaps not Pharaoh's Horses, but a big one on my chest and another one on my belly at a later stage.

...and he always had some mighty fine wine... sorry for the lame shiny pic photog i am not couple days into heal (tatt from wed) so still irritated pre peal shot matt dunn rabbits den milltown nj

need to post this reference to you profile images, please :rolleyes:

I vote big.

great stuff in here, as always . got something new today, photorealistic :

Thanks so much, @KBeee! I'm definitely not bummed to have to look at them every day. :) Thomas Hooper really knocked it out of the park, in my opinion, and I'm honoured to wear 'em on my paws.

my back piece by Chris O'Donnell

I just bought a new house. Bit of a downsize from current home but I dontt need all that space. About 10 minutes from where I am now in a super small town, bigger lot, no back yard neighbours and cheaper taxes. Just need to sell my current home now... fun

Going to leave this here. the hidden elephant

Above is a picture of me laying like a passed out pale seal on Iain Mullens table. Today was the second to last session on my back. Can't wait to see it finished. We're doing the last bit and touch ups with Rudy Fritsch at the Scottish Convention in the end of March. Going to be fun/hell. Todays session was nice except for a few bits. I can't believe how quick this piece has been. I got the idea to start my back in April last year, asked Iain about it and then we started in mid June. It really helps that both him and Rudy work super quick and make for good company + conversations during the sessions. Secret bit of knowledge exclusively for LST (I know people love that exclusiveness, I sure do): that ain't a dark red, but actually a light gray wash looking bloodied and irritated. Haven't got a piece of color on me, except for a few patches of gray and white.

Part two of my Simpsons in Space leg sleeve! Keep in mind that there will eventually be a black space background so the helmets do not look right yet. For example the circles will be stars. I posted part one here a while ago but here it is if you missed it. and here is part two on the other side. Work is being done by Rev. J.R. out of Vicious Ink in Rochester Hills MI. Next up, Mr Burns and Smithers! - - - Updated - - - whoops, those are way bigger than I intended, sorry about that.

If it was on me, I'd cover it. Don't want a tattoo with bad vibes on me.

Yesterday, by Trevor @ Liberty Tattoo Seattle.

Newest from Josh Brown.

Most of you saw this going down via Instagram but here's an AMAZING peony I got from the fantastically talented Wendy Pham aka Wenramen. This was on my inner thigh and it connected my Henning front thigh piece to my Rubendall rear back thigh backpiece. I don't know what possessed me to have my inner thigh brutalized but the results were OUTSTANDING. I'm so happy with how this turned out and Wendy is just AWESOME!!! ASIANS....still smiling even after the beating I took ;)