tattoo of russian stack dolls....this girl sat like a champ...better than most guys....better than when i got my thigh done (thanks for not punking me jesse!)
i have my first out of state client coming this weekend and she wants a piece from me so i painted this up for her and will tattoo it on her this weekend. the painting is acrylic on canvas 11x14. i included black in my palette for this painting which i hadnt done in over 2 years but i decided to give it a shot again. the tattoo will be about half this size so well see how they compare
color pencil drawing done for trade with tattoo artist Tanane Whitfield from Norfolk, VA. check out his dope blog @ http://tananewhitfield.blogspot.com/
this guy washed up on the beach the other day. we rushed to get him back in the water and he swam away just fine. he told me he wished he had teeth so he could eat more candy. his favorite is sour skittles though.
finally got to do this. the sketch i did a while ago. we did this two days in a row. probably close to 11 hours on my friend Lauren's dad. hes from Duvall and hes Florida Razed! if you dont know about that you should find out!
started this couple weeks ago. got a second pass today. one more session to add a background and some other goodies. i havent posted in forever but i wanted to share something...havent got to finish anything new in a while....but i started a bunch of stuff recently so hopefully ill finish some things up soon.
i will be tattooing at the jacksonville tattoo convention september 11-13. if anyone is interested in getting a piece from me contact me with your idea, budget, size and location and well do osmething cool!
this is going on the opposite side of the arm of the monkey with a balloon. all his lollipops are flying away so he may not be so happy when he finally lands. this will begin on thursday.
just wanted to paint something quick. get out energy with a limited palette and paint something small (12x12) oh and i forgot how much fun oil paints are!!!! oh and were having a zombie art show at the shop in october. so there will be some serious zombie paintings coming up. those ill have to keep secret for a while. but they should be fun.
so this is the plan for today. gonna be a looooooong day. well see what happens. hopefully we get a dent in this thing today....back ground will probably have some penguin elves or something cooler if i think of it between now and when we do the background.
Sketch for Aj's forearm. starting this saturday. hopefully ill be posting up a color study of this around then. and yes those are cacti???? (plural for cactus) for antlers. some other fun little things sprinkled throughout. got a lot of fun stuff coming up so hopefully multiple updates coming soon
yummmmy. look at that nice tan florida skin i get to work on every day. its starting to get hot so everyone is getting extra tan lately. thats life for me . anyways. finally finished this today. and i started the owl tattoo....i wish everyone was as happy as these two friends!!!
finally got some prints made up of these 2 paintings. also got a couple other prints still left of the bunny on a cupcake painting. all of them are $30 each. email me or let me know if youre interested in one. thanks!
Thursday, June 11, 2009
did this thing tonight. this girl sat for over 7 hours!!!! on her ribs?!?!? i dont have my ribs tattooed but i would imagine this would hurt really bad. anyways some of the colors arent quite settled and its not in the best lighting but i will get a healed picture in a couple weeks. maybe add a background then too
so now that busy season is over, painting season has begun. had a lot of fun with this little guy.....hes super friendly and would love to hangout with everyone. 18x24 acylic on canvas.
this tattoo is so crazy to do....a palm tree with christmas lights. we still need to put a background and maybe an orange extension cord. so, in progress as we speak but i did get to work on it a little today
now that spring break season is over i NEEDED to paint. i havent painted anything in months. this is a sposed to be a self portrait (its an olive....my name is olive. get it?) the new mike tyson punch out came out for nintendo wii today (which doesnt have mike tyson in the game or the title) and to make a long story short that was my inspiration! nothing too special i just needed to smush around some paint
sketch for a tattoo i started today. the guys dad wanted a caricture type tattoo of his dad as a lumber jack in portland which apparently he used to be. so yeah. not my usual thing but fun none the less
...actually its a deer. upcoming tattoo on a young lady. still got some areas to figure out but it should be fun. this is the outside of an upper arm and i think i may add a snowball fight to the inner arm!
quick color study for a tattoo im about to work on...its a weirdo underwater thing...ive been doing a lot of weird underwater stuff lately. whats with that??
this is a sketch for a chupacabra tattoo i started. its gonna be fun. and i need to post more regularly but things have been hectic. i got a few more goodies to share so well see if i get around to it
So I have an article coming out about me in the june issue of international tattoo art. m super excited. its my first article. all the pictures are unfortunately old tattoos but its awesome none the less. they interviewed me an everything. check it out!
ok so i've never been accused of being a portrait painter but for xmas everyone at the shop drew names and had to paint a portrait of that person for their little secret santa...except it wasnt really secret. i somehow managed to get Travis, the most experienced painter at the shop.....so hopefully he doesnt think this is garbage. but yeah. it was fun smearing around a bunch of oil paint. i definately havent done that in a while. and i cant remember every painting a portrait. i have some goofy stuff coming up for some paintings.
Im watching Friday the 13th 5. I had to borrow them from Matt because I had never seen any of the Jason movies, and that just ain't American. So I decided to make a blogspot. Ill be posting recent stuff and in progress stuff on here and just whatever else.