I’ve been slacking big time on this website (and Gee’s 2’s for that matter), but I’m back to it now. It’s been busy as hell in the shop so I just haven’t felt like dealing with this. Here’s a quick update on me and my work…
My ride…
Sold the burb back to the original owner, Tat2Bob, and bought a 2007 Silverado Classic 1500 HD Ext Cab. I love it! Already slapped some 22’s on it with 305/40’s. Had the tail lights painted white to match, red light shines through when I brake, looks awesome. Installed a screen in the dash, fiberglassed and painted the dash bezel white after molding it to fit the screen. Installed pioneer highs and mids, a Kicker L7 12″ sub with a kicker zx750.1 amp, and I haven’t even gotten started yet!
Tattooing pays my bills…
As far as my work, other wise known as life, I’ve been doing crazy black n grey lately. Free handing shit left and right! I’m getting damn good and just drawing shit on and going to town with it. My camera was busted for a bit and I missed out on a few pics I wish I had gotten, but I did grab some awesome stuff. Check out some of this…the one on the ribs is a healed photo.
The fun side of working…
Now this next batch of photos is my current pride and joy of all my work. Blake came to me with a wicked idea of doing a Salvador Dali style melting clock on top of his shoulder with the hands aiming at his daughters birth date (3/19). I love Dali, I have his work hanging in my booth, so I knew this would be a cool piece. Anyways, after a few weeks of sketching ideas out and starring at Dali and others melting clocks I decided I was going to free hand this piece, so thats what I did.
Last Friday he came in and I worked on him my entire shift until close. He was trooper and just sat there and took it (top of the shoulder really hurts). I had this idea to turn his collar bone into a tree limb that reverted back into his skin like veins with the clock melting over all of it. It took about an hour to draw it all on (and I almost punched my self in the face when I outlined it before taking pics of the marker drawing) and over that to outline it. Then it took about 3-4 hours to get the outer limbs done. That was session one, more to come for sure! I’ll keep posting pics as the piece progresses. Here’s what we have done now….
Life’s still ticking away…
Past trucks and working me and Ashlan just celebrated our 5th anniversary! She’s put up with me for 5 years now, that’s crazy! I love her more now if that’s possible!
Also, and I’m not going to say much about this yet, but I’m opening my own shop in November (hopefully). So stay tuned for more info on that as it comes.
That’s it for now…so now everyone that’s been pestering me to update this bitch should be happy! :)
Here are some more images I had laying around of tattoos I’ve done lately. The pink skull turned out pretty cool for the request I was up against: “I want a feminine skull, but no bows or eyelashes”. She was stoked and I thought was it was cool, win win.
