Tattoo weekend in Milwaukee

I spent a few days after christmas with the family hanging out in Milwaukee and working on some clients. I always get to tattoo some pretty neat stuff when I'm back in the hometown so I thought I'd share some of the more elaborate pieces I'm working on. These are all in progress works in various stages of completion.


First up is Garrett's biomechanical owl sleeve. We've been working on this for awhile and still have a couple sessions to go.

Next is Vince's art nouveau chest piece. The center is a direct reference from the Garland for Mayday print. The trees on the side were drawn on. Some shading and color will be added, but he wants to keep a very simplified print look to it.

Lastly is Robby's biomechanical cityscape arm. I didn't get a chance to work on it this time around, but was able to get some healed photos of the most recent work. This one too has a couple more sessions to go.

thanks for checking it out.

Biomech sketches

I spent the last couple of days doing some quick biomech color sketches.  I tried to stick  to the same color scheme throughout the series to give it some cohesion and reallytry to see how the colors work together.  I hope to use these as studies in some larger pieces in the near future.  

Starting the New Year off early

In preperation for the coming new year, I've decided to start a blog documenting my progression in tattooing and art, and the adventures it take me on. This will be the first year that I hit the tattoo convention circuit seriously, meaning at least one convention a month. So I look forward to lots of travel adventures and new friends.
It's also the first time since I've started tattooing that I have the time and drive to really delve into other art forms. So I want to show the development in oil painting as well as tattooing, and how they play off eachother. To start this off I'm putting up some recent sketches for some tattoos I'd like to do this year. So enjoy and check back often as I hope to be updating this at least once a week.