maybe finished

well finally got to throw some colour into this one after many weeks of no dont touch me.
its a rose with its stems creeping over an AK47. i personally think it would look better if the gun was coloured in as almost a silhouette of itself so it was totally black. but as they say the customer knows best!
hes gonna give it a week and see what he thinks and then let me know if he wants it coloured in. i definately think the gun gets lost in the drama of the picture.

no booked now until next week but ive got plenty of people that have asked for ideas to be drawn up so they can um and ah over them and leave me hanging around forever and a day waiting to know what they want.

ill keep you posted!

vampire fever

a new customer which is good already thinking about the next two she wants, welcome charlene to the group, ha ha yes yet another charlene. mad on the twilight series and vampire stuff decided to get bite me and some bleeding fangs which i think looks great though the picture does it no justice at all. the batteries in the camera were running out which doesnt help it focus too well.
it took longer to draw on than it did to machine it but it was good fun and she didnt cry which made everyone feel better.
so next week the word twilight is going on the back of her neck and then i think she wants her feet done. as much as ive told her it hurts like a bugger she isnt budging so all i can say is best of luck and i hate to say i told you so lol

thanks uncle ian

just a little note to say a big thankyou to davids uncle ian, referee extraordinaire, known to his friends as "alfie".
i was bringing in my washing today when my next door but one neighbour jim shouted and said a little bird told him i was doing tattoos. it took a good ten minutes to find out who the gossip was but i got there in the end and to qoute the family who are now shouting ideas for their inks over the drying greens "theres a lot of business coming my way".
i cant say im totally confident in fact im shitting myself as ive never tattooed real grown ups before, everyone has been younger than me. i have a lot of respect for these neighbours in particular so im nervous to say the least but when the time comes ill do my very best and keep you all posted with pictures.
so up to now there are cover ups and re-colours and one guy has offered me his body, purely for practice dont worry, its nothing seedy.
so once again, thanks alfie i love ya xxxxxxx

piccies

its been a while

hi again i know it has been such a long time since i wrote last but please dont think ive been sitting idle ive been quite hard at work.

i mentionned in my last blog that there were a few tattoos that i didnt have photos for and unfortunately i never will because we are no longer in communication with the customers in glasgow. we went up a couple of weeks ago to do a tattoo for big billy and david happened to mention to ian that he owed us £25 for a phone we sold him and instead of saying yeah mate i know ill get it to you as soon as poss he thought he would attack david by hitting him in the back of the head.
needless to say big billy didnt get his tattoo for which im very sorry billy, and we left never to want to know them again. i hope the cheeky bastard gets whats coming to him eventually hes got away with far too much for far too long.

anyway the work i have done is all in kind of pieces at the moment as for one reason or another my customers havent been able to sit them out in one go.
my first new customer is a friend of davids called gordon, he had a kind of symbolic love/hate tattoo on his chest. its a rose behind an AK-47 with the leaves and thorns wrapping around the gun. its halfway coloured in but it became emotionally too much for the guy as hes going through a lot of personal shit at the moment and found it very difficult not to let his mind wander.
hes looking forward to getting it finished but unfortnately he bruises like an apple so we are waiting for that to settle down a bit before we go any further.

my second customer is also newly acquired she first had a name put on her wrist and came back for more bless her, she thought it was all gonna feel the same but didnt realise every single one feels diffierent and some places hurt more than others. she had her name on the bottom of her back in simple scrolly writing with a star either side, (*jackie*) but instead of a dot there is a butterfly on top of the I. it will be lovely if she is able to pluck up the courage to get it finished bless her. fingers crossed for jackie everyone lol.

the third one is of course sharleen. she had a kind of tribute done for her children, she already had their names on one shoulder and wanted a couple of koi across the rest of her shoulders to represent her children. i used the same colour palette as the name tattoo which had blues and reds in it. so one fish was done in shades of red and the other in varying shades of blue. it also had some cherry blossom in it too. she will need to come back for a third sitting on this as it has been a thorn in my ass from the start. the outline went great but when i started trying to colour it in she was bleeding so much i couldnt see what i was doing so i had to stop. when she came back a few days later i managed to colour the red fish in but where i had started to colour the blue one it was still too scabby so i left it alone. next time i see her ill get that one coloured in too. though it may take a little longer than expected as the dafty went out in the sun on the wednesday and got it burnt. grrr i do object to this complete lack of interest in tattoo care if youre out in the sun put cream on. its a mantra that all tattooed sun worshippers should repeat dayly throught the sunny months. (though were youre concerned sharleen ill forgive you just this once for you thoughts being elsewhere that day) xx

ive got a couple in the pipeline ive been asked to finish a simpsons tattoo for a friend and also to design a four seasons tattoo for gordons older brother to display the name of his four children, ive got a kind of tree of life idea rtolling round in my brain at the moment so ill keep you posted on that one.
hopefully sometime next week the not finished ones will be done and of course there will be photos to follow folks.
catch you next time xxxxx