Hour Glass

Tattoo done at Timeless Tattoo in Glasgow Scotland.

Change in the Air

Japanese maple leaves in the wind. Falling leafs often mean change.  Change is were I’m at.

The Mechanic

Traditional pin-up girl on a mechanics wife. This design is based of of a Sailor Jerry stencil. It was very fun tattoo for me. Wish it could have been bigger and wish I could get a healed picture that wasn’t blurred on the edges.

Don Ed Hardy Flash

A classic piece of art work on my good friend Lisa. I was trying to talk her into getting the Born Weird design, but she wasn’t having it. So we settled on this one. Either which way you can’t lose when you get to do a Don Ed Hardy design. Thank you Lisa!!

Traditional Chest Piece

Traditional Tattoo on my good  friend Doli.

When I was helping him move back to the Bay, we decided to get some sushi in the city and check out some shops. We went in to Tattoo City to check out some old flash and portfolios.  At that point Doli and I were discussing different ideas for his chest piece. I think he was a little jealous of my eagle. We talked about all kinds of ideas skulls,  snake, goat head, a Slayer theme. Doli is definitely metal at heart. But his big round eye light-up when he sees that bold bright Traditional American flash. I ended up getting my hand tattooed that day by Brian Bruno, forcing Doli to stair at that old flash for two hours. His mind was made up! “Dan I want a Traditional chest piece with a ship.” So I went to the drawing board and this is what I came up with. Now I need to add on to my Chest piece. Thank you Doli

My First Portrait Tattoo

This is the first portrait tattoo that I have ever done. I did the tattoo in 2004 on a great customer that now lives on a small island in Alaska. He requested that I do his dads portrait on his leg when his dad passed. Even though I don’t do portrait tattoos. Apparently I’m the only person he lets tattoo him. Thank you that is a great honor. He just recently came down to California to visit his family and to bring his wife in to get tattooed. I did a peony flower with waves on her shoulder blade(will post soon). And I was able to get this picture. Thank you again.

Quick Little Oil

Fast ,small, drunk oil painting. I made this for my sweetheart a couple moths ago. I approached the canvas with no thought in mind except cover this little canvas with some oil paint that came with an easel my good friend just gave me. Thank you, Kyle (We need a picture of your pirate ship).

Naturally, a face was painted. My girl friend and I were drawing a lot of faces at the time. Sometime…..Once and a great while I try to do an abstract, mindless piece of art work, that’s not related to work.

Anywhichway, it’s 5″x7″ and took about 10 minutes.

Be About Your Shit

Tattoo on a great customer from the bay. Thank you…

Big Old Tree

Free hand tree. This is a great customer from Sacramento. we did this tattoo in three sessions. He sat great even though he bitched the whole time. Thank you!

Step One

We did the outline today. Still have along way to go. Were not sure what color he will be yet. The outline went fairly smooth with the exception of some   little bugs flying into the shop. Will do some more work in about two weeks. We are also going to add a dragon and background behind the oni.  Hopefully are progress will stay consistent. Thank you Scott!

 

PS. photo taken on cell phone