I am too sick to do anything for halloween, which is terrible. I have food poisoning…
so here are a few photos of past years.
The end-of-summer trip.
car vape
backwoods handicrafts. grass tiedown.
Spent the day scanning things, drawing. And relisted a few things on etsy. And then planted out the garden, the rest of it.
I got a few images of healed tattoo work I’ve done from some clients I love very much. Here’s a few of those…
Here’s a few of the things for sale (originals)…I’ll have some new stuff coming too later this week!
original before cover-up, done very well by Lisa Hill. It’s a pity such a nice, dark and creamy tattoo had to get covered- but that’s what happens when you get small pieces in big spaces; eventually you want to fill that canvas, and the smaller tattoos have to get fit in or covered somehow.
my sketch for this cover-up. we’ve finished his upper arm, this is a sleeve of oregon places, animals and plants. So today we’re adding a section of cobra lilies.
here you can see the cover-up under the stencil/drawing. luckily the shapes are pretty close, so I can use the black line from the previous tattoo to add dark areas in the right places.
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partially done. I used really bold lines in this piece.
the other part. oh yeah, and the beetle is one found on mt. hood.
we’ll finish the lichen, as well as start the back of his forearm, next time.
In my town, there is one corner store. There is one tiny diner-like restaurant. There is one gas pump. There is no bar, one (puny) church, and one post office. Add a few houses and that’s all there is.
This befuddled cougar hangs out by the beer cooler at the corner store. They’ve got a lot of impressive elk and deer mounts in there, as well as a bearskin rug and a few other cool things- but this cougar is the most compelling. The look on his face just screams, “WHY ARE YOU BUYING BUD LIGHT?”
We did a 4 1/2 or 5 hour session on this. It’s a cover-up of an older tattoo, a medium-sized rose and banner was there before.
This fellow lived in Eugene for a good long while, and so he wanted a memento of Oregon. We’re doing Mt. Hood at the backdrop of the waves, on the underside of his arm.
This, a version of the great wave as painted by Hokusai, is simply that- a great wave. Our man Joe is a surfer, and currently lives in Socal- we talked a bit about my fear of swimming in the ocean (SHARKS.) and his lack of fear (DOLPHINS AND PUPPIES). He works as a biologist, right now he is working with condors. I LOVE VULTURES AND CONDORS.
We also had some good book conversation, we’d both read Mutant Message, and a bit of McKenna, and he recommended some music to me, and I recommended he read The Flounder.
He also sat like a champ. It was a long, and brutal session, encompassing both his front and back armpits AND the knob up top by the collarbone, not to mention a large raised scar up there that must have stung! But he sat quite still through it all.
I can’t wait to finish this. I still have to refine the splashed droplets of white, and blue- and reline the cloud areas- and finish the mountain underneath.
Seriously.
They’ve twice now completely destroyed art I was shipping. They have lost a package by sending it to the wrong town. and yet-
The woman at the local PO helps me. I have no idea how to even guess what mailing things will cost, so I go in there, and I pick her brain. She’s always busy and yet she always explains everything to me.
I’ve become a lot more organized because of her.
Living in a small town has its advantages. I go to the store, they know both my cigarette brand and whether I got coffee or tea. They pet my dog, and say hello. I don’t live right in town so I don’t have anyone intruding on me or involved in my daily life, so I pretty much have it easy here.
Off to the post office site now to write a rave review for my shipping guru.
(pictured: naked mole rat sculpture I am making for a friend, stage one)
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