a little pink panther that i did a couple of weeks ago. thinking about turning it into a t-shirt.

heres a couple of sketches that i did while being trapped in my apartment during the great seattle storm of 2012.

 and a few pictures of the winter storm aftermath. enjoy!

BLUE PERIOD

well today was the first day back to work since the shop was closed for the past 2 days due to the snow. crazy weather here in seattle. snowboarding weather! well heres a panther i did on a walk-in today. guy was loaded on xanax and percocets. according to him that was the 3rd level of pain management. anyways enough about him heres his purple panther.

heres a 11x14 that i did a few months ago. guess its been a hot minute since ive posted anything.

its been awhile

heres a few things i've been working on

painting time

ok so i decided to redo this sheet from tats thomas. out of a book of traditional tattoos called "vintage tattoos :the book of old school skin art". pretty good book you should pick up a copy. there is a lot of good reference and history in it.

ok so anyways here we go. i started by mapping everything out on a piece of tracing paper. making sure it will all fit on an 11"x14" sheet of water color paper.

next lined it all out on the paper. most boring part of painting for me is lining it all out. after drawing the designs 5 or 6 times already it gets old.

 but i got thru it. not with out a little piss and moaning along the way. then i painted out the back ground with the red. turned out a little splotchy but ill fix that at the end.

next comes the black! bring on the BLACK!

 then the color. painting this one was fairly easy because of the minimal color pallet. anyways here the final product.

painting time

so this one didn't come out as planned. but like Craig's dad said in friday you win some and you lose some, but you live, you live to fight another day.

so heres the first almost finished sheet in my first solo flash set. just have to add some lettering in some spots then it'll be done

and heres 2 more from the next sheet. sneak peek!

starting a big one also. i seem to have a lot of irons in the fire at all times. and i'm always wondering why i'm feeling like i am not getting anything done. maybe its because i continue to pile more stuff on top of the stuff that hasn't been completed yet

new shit!

 this was a fun one to do. right up my alley. we had been messaging back and forth while he was in Afghanistan about the design. after he got back to the states we started working on it. this is session number 2. still have one more tightening up session to go. wish more people would get this stuff. hint hint

 this guy had a pretty brutal story. He fought in Vietnam and was wounded and needed a blood transfusion, well turned out that the blood he got had hepatitis in it. so not only did he get wounded fighting for his country he also contracted a life long illness to boot. 

started this piece on a skater kid thats sponsored by so and so. i have no clue don't really remember but the tattoo was fun either way.