A Rat and A Bird

Hey folks here is a super secret sneak peak at some cheesy goodness happening on a patron of mine. She has got such memorable tattoos from me as Dory from finding Nemo and Grrr from Invader Zim. Sarah was back in the other day to do this little mouse and keep the wheels rolling on her leg sleeve. She heals like a champ and sits like a tree in the forest. 

Also on a side note for the day I did some super cute lightning bugs with big lightbulb butts. No pic for now on those but keep the peepers pealed and find some time to check back. The big news of the day wasn't the fresh mouse magic or even the upcoming tidbit about the bird in hand. The news of the day is I met one of the greatest wrestlers of all time! The one and only ANIMAL from the Legion of Doom. If u don't now about the spiked shoulder pad wearing, greatest tag team Champion of all time I suggest getting a clue! I admit I went crazy fan a little but held back my big smile as long as I could. What a fantastic day! 

Now to the bottom story or last one of the day. The beautiful lashes or sam as she is known to some found this helpless baby bird and went full on mother nature. She is determined to keep it safe and love it and feed it. I wish her the best of luck and hope she gets this little feathered dude back in the tree tops flying high and eating worms soon!

Drawings made of tape

Yup a Drawing made of tape or more commonly referred to as a sticker. It has been a long time coming and eventually u have to jump in and stop checking if the water feels right. So sink or swim I'm treading water till I really start covering some ground. Hope u like the fun and sassy designs and all you need to do is stop in the shop to get one! Or get tattooed by me and get yourself a take home bag of goodies. Also send me picks of u holding them or sticking them in random places and I just might post it up on the blog!

Ancient Fun!

Well after a slow monday my day almost ended in that same fashion....a slow boring death. Lucky for me there is a few fun time customers out there in the world who come to me with awesome ideas. I did an Eye of Horus on my friend Joel awhile back and today a friends of his came and let me draw this organic bio-mech type eye. I never do things in the bio-mech or organic style but always loved it. Getting to take this tentative step out into the water was a blast and I look forward to exploring more of this type of work in my free time.

After doing this ancient tattoo we got ancient at the shop. Frog, Shawn, And Myself all at a cheddar flavored cricket to get in touch with the old ancient Egyptian ways and become next level food connoisseur like all those shows you see on the travel channel. We went next door to the coffee shop to see if we could get one of the lovely barista to eat one and guess what? she mowed down the other five that were left! Some people are just in tune with nature and some people are picky.

The proof of my manly open minded taste buds are in the photographic proof! Well Let me tell u it was like eating the most stale piece of semi popped popcorn imaginable!

Video Game Dinosaurs

After a lengthy break I'm back with a blog update. This time I come bearing video game awesomeness and cute dinosaurs! My long time friend Laura (now married with a new last name) came in to finish up a tattoo we started some months back. These cute dinosaurs have appeared in several video games but most famously Bub and Bob Bubble Bobble. This was Laura's first ankle area tattoo and even though I did a penguin on her when I was an apprentice and even though she has lots of tattoos she still didn't love me after these two tattoos. I love doing fun tattoos like this and am always so grateful for the friends I have who come in with these radical ideas!

Whats The Time?

I had a young lady come in and wanted a pocket watch. We drew this up and added some roses for spice. She already had the writing from years ago but we worked around it. The clock is also set to an ultra special time that she specified and which she will have to tell you about sometime. I loved doing this pocket watch but didn't realize how simple yet intricate a pocket watch can be. Hopefully she loves her new tattoo and look forward to more fun tattoos in the coming weeks.

Later in the week two up-beat young ladies came in and asked about best friend tattoos. I asked if they had any idea what they wanted and one of them pulls out a keychain with two peas in a pod! Can u imagine a cutter keychain containing vegetables? I can't! They mentioned a family they had to go find in uptown and said they would be back, I drew up this little adorable pea pod. They came back with mom, dad, and little brother in tow. Sarah did the one friend and I did the other, so it was a simultaneous tattoo friendshipathon. After the tattoos finished I stenciled a hug design on her little brothers back in a temporary tattoo fashion. Great family and a fun day. Also a fun fact.....these two young ladies have worked at three jobs together! How does that even happen?!

Koi Fish

I got to do this koi fish the other day. I didn't do the om symbol, it was already existing. Dude sat like a champ and we knocked out this rocky looking tough koi fish. Never get to do koi but I love doing them and I'm excited to see this one healed. Look for more rad tattoos coming up and some more rants. Summer sun has me short on the zazzy speeches this week.

Al Jolson Owl

Al Jolson was spoofed by Disney in a cartoon called "I love to singa" which stars a folky jazz singing owl who won't conform to his parents wishes to sing classic music. This little owl has a song in his heart and won't change for anyone. I got to do this tattoo on a young lady late one night. We watched the video of the cartoon and after that I was hooked and had to make this tattoo happen! One fun tattoo and hopefully it will always remind her about this awesome cartoon owl and his intrepid spirit!

Check out the video and fall in love with this little owl. This owl was so rad that he makes you wanna be you and never back down or change what you believe based off of what people say you should do.

P.Sherman Sydney Australia

Sarah came back in to work some more on her cartoon leg and we rocked out this adorable fish named Dory. She is the lovable forgetful fish who helps Nemo's dad find him in the movie Finding Nemo. It's a classic Disney flick and I recommend seeing it like yesterday. Dory is healed and we touched her up a bit and finished the coral.

Eventually the bubbles will be colored in and we will add a few more characters. I also got to meet Sarah's man Stephan. He was as nice as described and had a sense of humor similar to my own. All in all a fantastic day! Look forward to more fun tattoos and friends coming in to see me at Brass Knuckle Tattoo.

Late Nights

The days have been excruciatingly long and hot recently which has been making folks flock to the beach here in uptown. With all the water sports fun people like to show up as the suns going down when its gets cooler for there weekly fix of permanent illustrations on the skin. Bryan came in and wanted to start a little chest piece for his grandma Rosemary. We drew this up and got the ball rolling. Eventually underneath we will add some elements like flowers and other things that remind him of her and how fantastic she was. 

First tattoos are a big deal and big event. Emily is a language arts teacher and thought about her first tattoo for a while and decided on a seashell. She came in and I had to have her wait till I finished Bryan's tattoo. Emily and her friend waited patiently and I told her I would  go above and beyond because I loved everything about her idea! Which is true of every tattoo I do folks, always strive for magic! We drew this up and a short time later she had her very first very cute little shell tattoo on her wrist. Hopefully a wrist tattoo won't get her fired or hurt her getting teaching jobs. If I ruined your career Emily I'm sorry but at least you have a super rad seashell!

To Infinity and Beyond

Everyone has seen them, they are state outline tattoos. There are a lot of people with lots of love for certain spots on the map and wanna show it off to the world. Emily had been to the shop and gotten a Simba from the lion king tattoo earlier in the week. I gave her a lesson in character names because I know way to much about Disney movies. Even after giving her a hard time and joking around she came back to get this outline from me. Guess which state? Yup its the upper half of Michigan! Who has ever seen one of these? We added an infinity loop around her home town to add that extra homie touch, on the opposing leg she has the lovely MN outline. After doing this I've decided to try an do an outline of all the 50 states! I'm on my way!

Another infinity loop? Thats right. This was a late entry as Kristin and her friends came in right before close. She was a Beam of light and had so much positive energy it was contagious. She was on her was to Moldova to take care of orphans. Yes folks she is that kind of caring person, I personally would just right a check but some people get up of the couch and make life happen. She is one of these people and   it was pretty incredible to get to meet her and her friends. We all shared our philosophies on life and spirituality, I made them laugh, they made me laugh, and we tattooed late into the night but what a fun time it was. The tattoo took three times as long as it should have because of all the conversations and joking happening. So here it is, the bible passage she wanted with the infinity loop, facing her so she can be reminded of it all the time. Safe travels Kristin.