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Artist is https://www.instagram.com/woodzart/ Thank you!

here is the finished tattoo. Still looks swollen. [/img]

Going in to finish it in about 30 min. Finally

My local artist, Keith Reed, is putting a moth on my left thigh next week to (sort of) pair with the one Oliver Peck put on my right thigh over the summer. We haven't mapped out specifics yet, but it will be based off of some Spider Murphy's flash. In February I'm planning a trip to LA to visit a friend, and we're looking at some matching "bro tats" while I'm out there. It may end up being a walk in job, but also going to potentially call around to a few shops in advance.

Progress! Here's a couple shots from the trenches. I didn't get many cleaned up photos due to catching my flight home. More to come...

It's all done and I love it. What a great piece to my collection. And a chest piece is finally of the bucket list. I will post a pic tomorrow but tonight I'm enjoying my bruised and still very painful tattoo with a scotch.

Finished it today !!!

I'm booked for the end of the month to polish out my backpiece and cap my wrist with a good luck dragon before the end of the year. Hooray. Great timing actually - I can focus on work, enjoy Xmas with my family, slam dance and stage dive with my bros on Boxing Day, hit the waterpark on my week off work and then blam spend a holi-day in Steve's secret battcave. Wash the tattoo the next morning and get drunk on New Year's Eve. boosh

Sometimes I wish I could re-tattoo my chest. Not because I would change the design, but because the feeling of empowerment, confidence and euphoria I had after completing the lining session was a pretty significant life moment. So savour the experience @2bacanvas, big vibes to you for a strong sit, enjoy :)

The best holding and brightest inks in my skin happen to be handcrafted inks that tattooers use. Except for maybe the dermaglow neon orange haha. These are secret recipes and fairly closely guarded. I don't think you want to know what's in some of the ink recipes. The same pigments they use in commercial house paint or vodka or bull semen is probably something you don't want to hear right before getting tattooed. If the tattoo looks great in 10 years, that's what really matters IMO. One of my tattooers mixed some homemade green and white inks together and they started bubbling over the cap, like a high school science project. I asked uhhhh what the hell was in it...he said "wizard dust". We laughed. Well he laughed, I laughed nervously. It was itchy for a really long time, and now that green is still bright as hell 5 years later.

The only one I know of is Avi Vanunu at Psycho Tattoo. I remember Hooper put some work on a guy with some Avi Vanunu tattoos a few years ago and the tattoos (the pictures of them, at least) were amazing. I believe Yoni Zilber got his start there. - - - Updated - - - The only one I know of is Avi Vanunu at Psycho Tattoo. I remember Hooper put some work on a guy with some Avi Vanunu tattoos a few years ago and the tattoos (the pictures of them, at least) were amazing. I believe Yoni Zilber got his start there.

i like your birds :) they look pretty and feminine.

Booked in a quick tattoo with Ross Nagle... Long overdue, and great to be back to AllStar again. Jesus-themed tattoos seem to be to Ross what spiders are to Matt Ariola and penises are to Dan Sinnes... I probably will succumb.

Nah, brilliant. This way you'll only be laid up once. ;)

I just booked an appointment for the spring with Grez at King's Ave in NYC to start a Rock of Ages lower leg piece. Can't wait, he's been one of my favorite artists for some time.

I have not been able to post in the upcoming tattoo thread in a while. But thankfully in a couple weeks my dude Dave Regan will be adding onto my arm. I'm super pumped.