MoistTowelette

Erin chance and chelsea shoneck are 2 of the most amazing artists to come out of va!

Sorry for blurry pic. Bottom hannya and black flowers done by jeff gogueand took a total of 8.5hrs in 2 sessions. Top hannya and flowers done by shige. Took 8hrs. Not yet complete... :-(

Close up of shige's work. Pretty brutal he hit the nipple, sternum and armpit. That fucker...

Someone put up a gallery, found it on Facebook. I think some LSTers are in this:

Bay Area Convention of the Tattoo Arts 2013 - metroactive

is photo 53 you, @beez ?

Lol heading to my gogue appt now. I'll post pics later I promise

well I'm not biased,I want to see the other pieces bro !

I'll post on the other forum mr stinkybutt!

Boom! Teaser shot until my sesh on monday!

Gogue tomorrow! I will spare u guys pics of my robert hernandez piece I got on friday since I know this forum is traditional biased, but I will say that its sick as fuck!

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No service in the convention! (If you have AT&T)

Back to the table. Met @Scott R and @ian already!

This is fun, guys. :)

I stopped by the diamond club booth but I got there a lil after 5pm and junii wasn't tattooing anymore so I missed u... :(

Tomorrow!!!!

i may come say hi!

Oops I didn't see your response! Can't wait to see what you guys come up with!

I only have space for one chest plate, so he is just doing a banger which he rarely does so I wonder what he comes up with!

wow! thats awesome @MoistTowelette what is shige doing for you?

I sent a few ideas but I think we are going to hammer doen the final idea st the convention

getting tattooed by robert hernandez on saturday, jeff gogue on sunday, and shige on monday at diamond club!!!! gonna the best week of getting tattoos for me!

im sorry that was a bad joke. ill stop now.

and please dont bash cris garvers rate on this forum. OR ELSE!!!!!!

Hold the mayo.

lol...

How did I give wrong info? That was the price he was quoted.

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How did I give wrong info? That was the price he was quoted.

my friend contacted him and his rate in nyc is $2000-$2600 for a full day session which is 5-6hrs for him. that equates to 400+/hr.

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we dont discuss prices around here.

sorry i generally dont either but i was trying to prove a point.

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tried to edit the last post and it wouldnt let me.

lol my bad i ruffled your feathers. XXX+/hr is INSANE. i have 130+hrs of work from some top notch artists and none of them were nearly as much. jeff gogue is one of the best around and he is SUPER fast and he charges half as much. i know this is a matter of opinion and this forum heavily favors trad, but i will pick jeff over garver 10000 times out of 10000 times. again, garver does good work (and to please you i will say he does great work) but i stand by my comments. if it helps, i wouldnt pay XXX/hr for ANY artist. thats just me.

bang bang isnt a BAD artist (not great either) but his publicity allows him to charge ridiculous prices. similar to chris garver. i mean garver does good work, dont get me wrong, but he is NOT worth his asking price.

fuck ami james and all those tattoo tv shows. (except tattoo wars)

They said it's in part due to the bands that play but I don't really care about the bands. I go for the tattoos :D

yeah exactly what i told them. i told them they should have separate fees for people checking out the bands/kustoms vs people just getting tattooed. he replied back saying they had a $20 voucher for people getting tattooed but that is still almost $80 a day with parking...

I will have to agree with this even being a mod on one of those grumpy forums. I just wish this place was more open to other tattoos then traditional tattoos. A well done tattoo is a well done tattoo whether it is traditional or tribal or realism or trash polka.

10000000% agree. A great tattoo is a great tattoo.

After paying for parking it's 100 bux a day. Freakin ridiculous! I complained on their fb page and mentioned that this would be the last year I will be attending...

Is it really that much????? The last time I went to ink n iron (which was 2009 to get work from jess yen) I'm pretty sure it wasn't nearly that expensive. Wtf...

I watched you getting that large piece on your ribs. Are you adding on or finishing it?

I want jeff to add a killer skull, but I also want nikko to add something above jeff's piece. Decisions decisions...

anyone going next weekend? ill be getting in my 3rd session from carlos torres on saturday.