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Had some fun tattooing this mehndi piece mixed in with some dotwork, it slightly curves around from the top of the hip/side of the thigh to the front thigh just above the knee so I was pretty happy with

So I've been away for awhile, moving house, making some changes in the studio, it's been a busy start to the year. I recently got a chance to take a picture of a piece I did a few years ago. Seeing your

Been working on this Fudo-myo backpiece for a few months now, making good progress and starting to see things come together. We spent the session colouring the flames so they're a little bloody, everything

Had the pleasure of tattooing this elephant and lotuses with a dotwork twist for a clients first tattoo. Turns out she's a huge elephant enthusiast which you can tell by her shorts. Peace Out

This was the clients first tattoo. While I was designing it I kept on thinking of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, except we didn't go for the apple, roses are so much better. Peace Out

Had the pleasure of tattooing this Foo Dog also known as a Shishi lion on a clients hand today. Tattooing hands are generally seen as taboo unless the wearer already has a good number of tattoos and is

Some more work on this Fudo-myo backpiece I started just before Christmas. Working on the background at the moment, still a few more sessions to go, this session was around 3 hours. If you missed my last

I've been researching Sailor Jerry, old school tattooers and traditional tattoos in general lately so I was really stoked to get a project to rework an old tattoo of a snake and add some traditional tattoos

There's been a lot of attention to a lady called Kate Alice in the media the past couple of days. Kate went and got the word 'Vegan' tattooed on her face, just above her left eyebrow to be exact and its'

I had a good client and friend of mine approach me for a cover up a while back. For those you of you that don't know, a cover up is when you cover and old tattoo with another tattoo. It's not an easy task

Sailor Jerry and Ed Hardy werern't the only tattooists at the forefront of traditional tattooing. On the other side of the globe in Germany (Hamburg to be exact), Christian Warlich was apparently one of

So I got to finish up a clients half sleeve today. We tattooed the tiger just before Christmas so it's all healed up and today added the lotus flower beneath. We're heading towards a full sleeve but this

It took us 2 session but we finally finished off this nautical piece symbolizing the clients travels. A lot of fun to tattoo, black and grey really suits this type of style and you can't go wrong with

Yet another batch of Eternal tattoo ink is on the recall list this week. The perp, Eternal Lightning Yellow, batch #10/10/16 Eternal is one of the most used tattoo pigments in the industry so I guess we're

Noh masks are masks used in Japanese theater by the actors for depicting their specific role. Hannya mask There are loads of different noh masks used in noh plays, most of us will know of the tengu, hanny

If you're an artist you'll know that finding good reference is golden when you're looking for inspiration or just realistic images to base your art off. Roses are a common subject matter, especially in

Hello steemians, I want to show you and let you know about my workplace. I own a business in north London(UK),it’s a tattoo studio called Haunted Tattoos. Since l was a kid l always loved collecting stuff

Running off my last post I decided to put my own renditions of some Sailor Jerry tattoo flash tattoos up in a separate blog post. Tall ships, a staple in tattooing I really love this piece of flash, probably

Sailor Jerry is to tattooing what Dyson is to vacuum cleaners, ok so maybe a terrible analogy but you catch my drift. He has had so much influence in tattooing, especially American Traditional tattooing

So I've had quite a few people talk to me, either here on Steemit, at the studio, on Facebook or over email asking about apprenticing. Getting into tattooing is difficult. With a lot of media attention,