I got to see people I missed, tattooed the hell out of almost everyone, and now I’m taking a day off. I’ll be working at the High Priestess in Roseburg Tuesday on, so call the shop there if you want to get in with me while I’m in Oregon, this tour.
Here’s a few photos from today, at the Eugene shop.
face healed, background fresh.
I didn’t do the yellow or the running dude, just the landscape and elbow.
healed, 3/4 sleeve from years ago. saw her today!
peacock healed, background fresh.
amber wearing her new amber ear weights. (I love her!)
Man, is this ever a gorgeous shop. The vibe is perfect. Plus most of the crew are people I have worked with, off and on, for years and years. Old friends and some new faces that I already love…I’ve done a few tattoos on friends and clients already and I’ll be staying through until Sunday night.
Come say hi!
I’ll be taking walkins to do any of these tattoos, every day, all weekend at the evergreen convention, in springfield oregon.
22×30″ sheet of flash for tattoos, I did this to bring to the evergreen convention.
22×30″ sheet of flash for tattoos, I did this to bring to the evergreen convention.
new set, these are for sale at laughing buddha in seattle. 7/16″ saba wood with oak and nut dangling on silk wrapping.
set I’m working on- 1/2″ saba wood with glass, oak, and maple beads, silk threadwrapping, and copper-wrapped hand polished agates.
in the process of setting up for a white ink tattoo.
White ink on the hands.
Plenty of tattooers won’t even do this. For good reason, too! White ink does not heal white. It heals slightly lighter than the skin tone, and often unevenly. It ends up looking a bit like a pale scar, nearly invisible.
Most tattoo artists who will do tattoos in white-ink-only, will not guarantee it, do a free touchup, after it heals. It’s acknowledged that it will not look right when it heals. There’s a very, very rare person for whom it heals and looks ok- but that person is truly rare. I’ve only ever met one, in 16 years of using white alone in tattoos.
All that said, I will do white-ink-only tattoos. And I’ll even do one free touchup, just like with any other tattoo. BUT, I try to make it really clear that it’ll never heal just right, never look perfect. That it’s going to fade into a pale hint of a tattoo, like a scar. Barely there, and that this is likely to happen unevenly, too.
Here are two matching tattoos, freshly tattooed with white-ink-only.
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