Mike's New Tattoos and Ed's Warrior

Today I added more photos of Mikes work. They're located in his January 2006 gallery. Check out the gallery and take a look at the fantastic stuff he's been doing.

Ed is one of my oldest and closest friends. We've been adding to his tattoo collection twice a month for the past 10 years or so. Some of his work is featured in a gallery (Ed & Family) along with some pictures of the rest of his family. I'm hoping to spend an hour or so photographing all of his tattoo work to add to the gallery in the near future. I've tattooed Ed, his wife Jean, and thier kids; Niki, Janita, Misty, and Lance. We're waiting for the grandkids to turn 18 to see if the family tradition will continue.

We're currently working on a native warrior on Ed's left thigh. We started this tattoo a couple months ago but then had to take a short break due to unforseen circumstances. We're back at it again and here's how things stand at present.

Ed picked a flash design from the walls of the shop and I redrew it slightly. We did the line work and the heavy black during the first session.









Next we added black and grey shading to create depth and texture.











During our most recent session we added the bulk of the color. Next session we'll finish the tattoo by adding the skin tones and a couple remaining colors.









Stay tuned for further deveolpments.

Progress on Steve's Arm

Steve started coming into the shop about 4 years ago. He has since become a regular coustomer and a good friend. He has his own gallery featuring a back piece that we did over the course of the last 2 years. After finishing his back piece we started working on upper arm sleeves.

We started with a tattoo done several years ago by one of my apprentices...










Working from several photos of Steve's arm, I did a sketch that I worked from to lay down the line work for the new tattoo. I redid the more inportant lines in the old tattoo and will eventually touch up the color in the old piece to keep it from being overpowered by the new work. Since his backpiece has a sun overhead, this piece will include a dusky sky and a rising moon...







In the most recent session we added color to the evergreen trees and mountains and did the shading in the foreground rocks...











Stay tuned for further developments...