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7:30pm until 3:30am with about 30 minutes of breaks total. One more session and we should be finished.

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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.

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I can't compete with that epic back piece, but here is my chest, completed last night. Dave Fox is the man.

Matt Arriola's Photos | Facebook
7:30pm until 3:30am with about 30 minutes of breaks total. One more session and we should be finished.

Matt Arriola's Photos | Facebook
7:30pm until 3:30am with about 30 minutes of breaks total. One more session and we should be finished.

Matt Arriola's Photos | Facebook
7:30pm until 3:30am with about 30 minutes of breaks total. One more session and we should be finished.

Matt Arriola's Photos | Facebook
7:30pm until 3:30am with about 30 minutes of breaks total. One more session and we should be finished.

Matt Arriola's Photos | Facebook
7:30pm until 3:30am with about 30 minutes of breaks total. One more session and we should be finished.

Kev reminded me I have not posted a picture of my ribs on my recent trip to texas..
Here is my amatuerish attempt at self photography

Flyer Chris Conn sent out to shops when he started working at Tattoo City. This one was sent to Deluxe Tattoo in Portland, dug it out awhile back and found a frame for it.

heres my tattoo from mario from the convention

and a chad panther head i got

@ian thanks for taking and sharing these! Look forward to seeing your pictures of the tattoos you got plus other LSTers tattoos from the convention.....
skeleton jesus crown of thorns by Bryan Burk I got

Super cool, Ian! Man, that Roper backpiece...so good. Thanks for posting these. Can't wait to see what you got there.

Just saw this--wow! A must-see for @kylegrey.

I did not know that about him.

I had the honor of getting a Peony tattooed by @Stewart Robson last night at SFO. What a great guy (and obviously world class artist)...awesome time talking with him. Amazing experience sitting there being tattooed while artist after artist came up to greet Stewart/Valerie and check out what they were doing. I was being tattooed by Stewart right next to Valerie tattooing a girl while watching Mike Rubendall and Henning Jorgensen tattoo about 10 feet away. Insane!
If Stewart doesn't put something up, I'll try to get a good picture when it heals.

I got this at ink n iron by chad k kind of a bad pic but the only one i got if it works this time !
thanks for the pic help

Count on it, Iwar! Im planning to bring my camera to share pix of the event with you guys that aren't able to attend :)
Thanks!!

Here is my eagle. It was done by Matt Arriola.

Ok fools, he put a photo up on his blog, so I suppose I'll share it here as well. Buffalo head on the shin, by Bailey H. Robinson. Shiny photo. There's a skull hiding under there, too, and will almost definitely add some stuff in a few months. Tatonka.

The entire UFC is a big advertisement for what not to get when getting tattooed.

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If anyone can beat this please post it, but for me Tony Hundahl owns lion tattoos.

Got this outlined on Friday. Only had about an hour and a half of tattoo time available before had to get ready for next appointment or would have started the shading.