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Today's work was intense, and we still have a bit left to go! Yoni Zilber at NY Adorned. https://www.instagram.com/p/-Cj6--MGq7/?taken-by=yonizilber

I had a couple of jammers done by Franklin Reeves at The Pearl Harbor Gift Shop on Thursday. Awesome guy. It had been a few months since my last tattoo, and it felt good *you know what I mean* to get back to it. I'm running out of room on my lower right leg. Hopefully getting a larger piece done on my thigh in the near future. Franklin did the cat and the chalice. Other visible work my Tim Pausinger (The Pearl), Franz Stefanik (Okey Doke), Mario Desa (Great Lakes) Chad Koeplinger (Rock of Ages), and Glennie (The Pearl).

been a year since i got a tattoo until the other night. nothing huge or anything just wanted to get one more from this dude before he takes off. my pal is coming to town in a few weeks and i will probably fill my shin up. https://www.instagram.com/p/-AD2tANAlY/?taken-by=cookietruck

In my quest to have the occasional meaningful tattoo I added a new one today. I had a pretty awesome pure walkin experience, on foot from home to PSC tattoo, where the man, the myth, the living legend, Tony D'Annessa did a quick little one on me. He has a note on his wall saying he has been tattooing for 57 years! I had spotted this little top hatted skull and 13 a couple of weeks back and knew that this was my shot. It's on an old flash poster from the 60's, and Tony even had an accetate stencil for it. It didn't take long, and when it was done I got a tattoo history lesson on the old school stencilling technique. Black powder onto the accetate and then press it onto greased skin, hope for the best. He showed me more of his major collection of accetate stencils. There were some dragons and big bearded wizards that must have required some serious freehand skills to complete once the faint outline wiped away. Several people have been telling me to get a Tony tattoo, and I'm really glad I finally found the perfect occassion to do so. This was an awesome experience, that I know I will always have a souvenir of!

Scott Sylvia dagger going.on my leg in an hour. Holy shit folks. So stoked, I'm like a fucking campfire.

yep ! and we love endorphins !!!!!

Friday 13th first timer :) Matt Dunn @ Old Glory in Asbury Park NJ

i would caution with the japanese windbar, cloud background as an afterthought to filling in a traditional sleeve. it looks awesome, but I would expect a need to design with this background in mind with the initial layout and composition of trad tattoos . If you put a heavy black background around traditional tattoos that already contain a lot of black you will reduce the overall contrast and readability of the overall arm. I guess the dots can create a similar issue, too much will reduce contrast. I've also read suggestions to select one artist to do all the filler dots insteady of many, to maintain the overall consistency. i've got tattoos that blanket all the major areas. I'm filling in the holes with fun small tattoos. I've got negative around my chest bird that I would like to eventually fill in, but my tattooists have suggested NOT blacking in all in and instead leave as is or fill the centre halo part with a bright yellow to maintain contrast. the other 2 thread links are great reads... cheers

Fresh one....

Here's my sleeve so far. The top half is stars and dots and the bottom is all tied together with clouds

Wrapped up my collaboration back piece with Henning Jorgensen and Mike Rubendall this past Tuesday. I posted up a ton of pics in the Full Back Piece thread. So happy to have it finished and amazed by the final product! Enjoy!