Something for the weekend 17

I can hardly believe January is nearly over and in less than two weeks I will be working at the Milan Tattoo Convention. The first convention of the year and my first one outside of the UK. I'm a curious mixture of excited and nervous about working alongside some of the biggest names in tattooing, some of whom have a had a big impact on my work.

The above reason and flat hunting have seen the rather sporadic start to this years posts. I'm doing my best to keep track of things but I can foresee the next couple of months will result in intermittent posting.
Hopefully life will settle back to some sort of normality in March and I can focus a bit more on this side of things.

Below is last weeks work with some of this weeks. Although I've neglected this blog I'm really pleased with how the tattooing is going. I'm slowly removing all stencils from my work and as many of you know I do a fair bit of my work by drawing it on. The severed heads and snake piece bring me a step closer to working in a way that all tattooists did before the invention of stencils. It's challenging and time consuming to do everything without stencils but I think the end result and 'feeling' you get is worth the effort.

Thanks for reading and I'll try and keep up with a weekly post.
Cheers

Something for the weekend 16

The first post of the year, it's a little later than I imagined it would be. I have lots of 'balls' in the air at the moment so the blog was put on hold until now.

Apart form having a nice relaxing break over Christmas and New Year, not much has happened. It was my first week back and I've started a few new pieces which is always nice. Looking forward to doing more on the bigger pieces I'm working on with renewed energy.

I was also lucky enough to have a double page spread in this months Total Tattoo.

Enjoy the New Year folks.

A quick drawing from today, done using Pentel Brush pens.