Shay's Leg

Just a little something I finished today, it seems haven't been doing any one shot tattoos at all lately, so it's nice to finally have something to put up here. I wish I had the patience to wait for a healed shot, so that you could see the thousands of little grey circles on the snake a bit better, but I don't... So here it is.
Maybe if I am feeling particularly productive, I'll put up some photos of in progress stuff one day... Probably not though, I have snowboarding to do.

Just to keep you posted,

So, as I'm sure you've all noticed, I haven't posted anything for a short while. I've been working on a new blog for my painting/artwork, so I've been keeping that off here a little bit. As for tattooing, I do have some larger projects underway, but sadly, if they don't get finished in one shot, they usually don't get posted on here.
So yeah, the wait will be a little longer, hold your horses, go to The Biodome (Michelle & I did yesterday, and it was awesome), do something constructive with your time, and before you know it, I'll have more to show you or complain about. All in due time.
On another note, something that people have been kind of confused about: I have a really bad habit of losing my temper when people text message me about appointments, so, if you are looking to schedule something, confirm something, or just have general questions about anything, feel free to call or e-mail.... Do you text your fucking dentist? Didn't think so.
Just had to get that out in the open.
Thank you, goodnight.

No Tattoo Photos.

So yeah, tattooed a large lettering piece on Juliana today, and then a sick biker 'death angel' on John, neither of which I can show you, because our studio camera has no batteries, and well, I lost the charger. I obviously cannot be trusted with nice things (or so my mom used to tell me when I was a kid), so as a result, you'll just have to take my word for the fact that both pieces came out flawlessly awesome.
I do however have this picture laying around, a painting done for Miguel, a tattooer in the area:

Older Painting

A lot of people comment on this piece that I've had hung on the studio wall for a while now, so I figured joe public who lurks but doesn't come to the studio, might like to see it too.
On another note, and I stress this every year... If you have large pieces to be finished, you might want to start thinking about booking now, rather than wait until the spring, when ever single person delves into a panic about not having their piece finished for summer. It could mean the difference between a month's wait for an appointment, or three.

The Cottage

So, I've spent the past three days out at a house in the middle of nowhere hanging out and painting. Sunday night Andrew came up for two days, and layed down some hilarious paintings with me. Sometimes it helps, when you can't come up with anything interesting to draw, to draw the downright offensive, or politically humorous... Both of which I think we captured with these:
Sadly the photos are taken with an iphone, which, as cool as it may be, tattooers need to learn, take shit pictures.



And I found this one laying around, I did it a while ago, and lost it amongst thousands of saved files I have on my camera.

Save Our Ship

Silvano came in this weekend to get this message in a bottle tattooed on his leg. It was a fun piece, and this guy seriously has a tattoo on him from each and every one of my favourite local artists. I kept joking with him about how 'I hadn't made any mistakes on it yet', and for someone who doesn't know me, he took the jokes really well.
Dude sat there with this unimpressed, blank look on his face that I'd expect from an NFL star watching high school football.... Completely unfazed.

Just because...

Just because I don't ever post pics of him, and he does deserve the fame... Ladies, Gentlemen, ma dawg.