Show Your Ink

[jscottyk]

Left sleeve is coming along. Katja added the peony (plus a couple of cherry blossoms) to my shoulder a couple of weeks ago. Also a bit more line work to the phoenix, and some shading.

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[pdmtong]

^ as if the incoming FF wasn't enough. It must feel good to be the King.

[jerk]

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tattoos...i got some.

[Matthew Strongin]

Great stuff guys. I'm already itching for the next one.

[zetroc]

I remember seeing that clown on Ron's instagram when he did it - had no idea it was on you, craig. Pretty sick. I'm going to Providence in April and have an appointment with him to start something on my chest.

[jerk]

I remember seeing that clown on Ron's instagram when he did it - had no idea it was on you, craig. Pretty sick. I'm going to Providence in April and have an appointment with him to start something on my chest.

really? ron is doing my whole right arm. it's his to do whatever he wants to with it. he's done really really cool stuff. it isn't a "sleeve" like kids get today- it's a bunch of small single sitting cool shit that all works together. i'll post some more pictures. sorry they're so blurry. ron's stuff is amazing.

[jerk]

I remember seeing that clown on Ron's instagram when he did it - had no idea it was on you, craig. Pretty sick. I'm going to Providence in April and have an appointment with him to start something on my chest.

steve- make sure you let me know when you're going to be in providence. it'd be awesome to get dinner and grab some drinks, i'm sure ron will be down......

[zetroc]

steve- make sure you let me know when you're going to be in providence. it'd be awesome to get dinner and grab some drinks, i'm sure ron will be down......

sweet! i'l be there april 24-29 or thereabouts. my appointment is tuesday. he did a small piece on my forearm a while back at tattoo city in sf. have heard good things about the oysters.

[jerk]

sweet! i'l be there april 24-29 or thereabouts. my appointment is tuesday. he did a small piece on my forearm a while back at tattoo city in sf. have heard good things about the oysters.

Oysters? No oysters in Providence I don't think- but it's close enough to someplace delicious I'm sure. We've got time- maybe even time to go for a bike ride. If you've got time, I could give you the Seven Cycles tour as well.

[savine]

The older and more faded the tattoo looks the better it looks is my opinion...... old school, shitty ink n getting.g done cos you want to n not cos it's trendy.

[Cookietruck]

ron wells does some awesome stuff

[j44ke]

I've been following Casey Niestat's YouTube channel just because it is good escapist entertainment and periodically he says something interesting. Smart guy, savvy user of social media, family man, etc. Today he featured a guy named Roger Sparks he met earlier during a period when he was doing a documentary in Afghanistan, and it seemed like something that might fit into this thread.



Cathartic Ink by Roger Sparks – Art and Tattooing

[Eric Estlund]

Happy New Year!

Hope it's more fun than...

[Dave]

Recent in the last two weeks. HUGE Star Wars fan, took my daughter to the Force Awakens twice and she is hooked. Anyway, beginning of a sleeve I think.

[Octave]

My wife and I got inked two weeks ago by Grace Neutral in London. Stick-and-poke tattoos are intimate. We gave her free reign with the guidance that we both love mandalas, succulents, and wanted complementary pieces. She came up with these and did slight variations in the shading, which have become more apparent as they've healed (which has been hugely different than how a gunned tattoo heals, interestingly). I'll try to snag another photo of the healed pieces sometime soon. Apologies for the poor quality on this one, it was taken post-inking in our AirBnB.
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[Matthew Strongin]

Nice! I'm curious about the differences in healing between hand-poked and machine done tattoos. My only hand-poked ones are some janky tiny tattoos I did to myself when I was a teenager.

PS - When your teenage son who has no interest in drawing goes to the craft store for india ink, it's time to suspect that something's awry.

[Octave]

Nice! I'm curious about the differences in healing between hand-poked and machine done tattoos. My only hand-poked ones are some janky tiny tattoos I did to myself when I was a teenager.

The biggest difference was that it didn't scab - it hardly felt like anything for the first 36-48 hours, then went through a brief period of being raised, and then eventually went back down - that was it. 5 days and it was completely healed. I should've taken pictures along the way, as the shading and depths of colors really transitioned.

I had her touch up a piece on one of my fingers, so I was able to watch the process closely (for the arm, I had it raised over my head laying down so I couldn't see anything) and it was pretty straight forward - standard gauge tattoo needle, kinetic-taped to a chopstick, dipped in an inkwell and inserted almost parallel to the skin - the capillary force pulls the ink out as the needle comes out and leaves the ink under the skin. She's got a few videos somewhere on her instagram if you're interested.

[marley]

PS - When your teenage son who has no interest in drawing goes to the craft store for india ink, it's time to suspect that something's awry.[/QUOTE]

Career training for your time in prison

[Matthew Strongin]

Bump time. I know some of you folks have new ink to share. I'm definitely getting ready for another addition...I just need to figure out when. Well, when and which idea to do next.

[pajotfix]

This has healed in the meantime (back of my upper left leg). I'm getting more abstract work done after the summer...