10.23.12

It's been a while, but what a month!  So busy, so much fun.  We had house guests, got tattooed, drove down to a family birthday, then up to the mountains for a vacation with new fiends, came home, worked, had house guests, worked, had guest artists and more house guests at the shop....  it's no wonder we're both exhausted.

During that madness, I unfortunately forgot to set up an auto reply for emails, letting people know that I'd be extremely busy this month and away from emails for the most part.  I know I have a lot of typing in my near future as I play catch up, so as you patiently wait for a reply here are a few photos from my favorite month of the year, OCTOBER!  As always, your patience is extremely appreciated, and these tattoos are in no particular order.

BFF tat's

Started colouring my friend Jon's sleeve

Our trip with our new friends.  Fall in the mountains is my favorite

 

Just touch ups left on this Tiffany Bozic reproduction

 More visitors!

 

...these two...

Adding on to Blake's arm by going straight down his side.  Lots of blue.

 Colour session number one for Vanessa

 Colour session number two for Vanessa!

Matt's sleeve

 Started a sleeve on Colby and coloured this little bit of background

9.13.12

I have nothing fun or interesting to say today, just photos of tattoos I've been working on.  Thanks for stopping by!

8.31.12

You get a tattoo of Tanuki, you get immediate blog attention.  Thanks Alex!  Pretty awesome first tattoo.

7.27.12

So that's August I guess... seemed to go by rather quickly, but then again, it's been a busy month.  I'm always behind on emails now... sorry.  I just can't seem to keep up.  On a positive note, I found an old memory card that I thought I had lost, however there are probably 500 photos on it to go through and edit.  These aren't any of those photos.  These are off of my phone from the last few weeks.

8.14.12

... started going through my iPhone today and I guess I have a ton of both life and tattoo photos to edit.  I know most people come here for the tats, so I'll start there.

Started colouring the bottom of this Tiffany Bozic reproduction.

 Drew's Traditional Wife/Pin Up

 Hillary's Foot

 Darcy's foot

 

 Started colouring the water on Craig's Octopus fighting an Apache helicopter

 Inside of the arm Peony on Justin

 Inside of the arm Lotus for Dylan

 

Coloured the top flower for Sherri

Just a few touch ups for Denise's Pierogi/ Grandparent's tattoo

7.15.12

This is a freebie... I'm just cross posting from Instagram.  Grandma/Grandpa Pierogi from earlier this week.

7.13.11

Here's the last of the photos I had edited on my days off.  I was going to post them one a day... but I have a few drawings to do before heading back out to Chicago next week.... so I'll just post 'em all now-

Naissa's sweet peas

Neal's Mask (fresh colour)

 

 Carmen's back... finally done touch ups, repacking color etc...

 Morgan's finger

 

7.10.12

More tattoos from a few weeks ago.  Finished Robyn's tattoo... unfortunately I got lazy at the end of the session and didn't make her stand on a chair or get right down on the floor, so bad angel for the photo.

7.9.12

Healed photos of Jackie's first tattoo.

7.6.12

Mostly healed tattoo on my friend Chris' inner arm.  He came in for a quick consult the other day so I snapped a quick photo.   He'll be back in a few weeks and I'll get portfolio quality healed photos.

7.5.12

Keeping with the theme of catching up on old photos....

June 17th Deadly Tattoos in Calgary had their "Getn' Tanked" show and I was lucky enough to be invited to participate.  I'll be completely honest, I don't own a motorbike, I've never even sat on a motorbike... So I was fairly surprised how big the tank was when I went to pick up from the salvage yard.   Needless to say,  I've never painted a gas tank before, but that's the fun part about participating in Deadly art shows...  Usually puts me out of my comfort zone.

I was both shocked and honored that Rich Handford of Kapala Tattoo in Winnipeg bought my tank before the show even started.  Rich is an amazing artist, so it makes me really happy that he ended up with my tank.