Random weirdness from a tattoo-artist gun-toting biker-chick knitting foodie with seven kids. Keep the change, ya filthy animal...
Hmmm, there’s a thought…

Hmmm, there’s a thought…

I <3 Edgar Allan Poe.

I <3 Edgar Allan Poe.

Almost-awesome culinary tattoo

Concept drawing for my son Artemas’ tattoo I’m doing Friday.
Pepper will be shades of red/orange with green stem.
Flames will be blue to white tips.
Lettering will have blue in it to balance design top to bottom
Knife/whisk in black to gray wash.
Words are Latin for “Always Cooking”

Today’s guinea-pig tattoo

She wanted ladybugs. So I designed this vine with them, one for each family member.

She really loved it…

limmynem: via MENTALFLOSS The converse of this statement is also true.
limmynem:

via MENTALFLOSS

The converse of this statement is also true.

I colored in 2 of my tattoos and for the life of me I cannot get a good picture.

These will have to do for now. Seriously these don’t look this bad in person. WTH.

Both are pieces in my Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy leg mural.

The Babelfish…

And the “42” made out of cheese and the white mice. The white is solid but very hard to show in my brown skin. Where it looks splotchy is where there is blood in the skin. It’ll all even out in a couple days. (If it doesn’t I know where to get hold of a tattoo machine)

jewles replied to your link: People have asked after my facebook tattoo album, here it is.

Do you have a favorite ‘style” to tattoo?

I love Old School style but it’s way too early on to try to make a niche for myself. I want to try all styles. It’s been surprising to me already what designs I could pull off that I totally thought I couldn’t.

Concept and stencil for a tattoo to be done tomorrow

The guy said, “My baby’s feet, with a horseshoe & his name & the date.”
The left side is the concept.
The right side is the stencil for the actual tattoo. The stippled areas indicate where the darkest shading will be. To be done in black and gray tomorrow afternoon.

TatTuesday stuff - 2 sketches and a room

For Clint, this week:

For Autumn, this week ( did the turtles already):

And my room at Integrity (the album covers aren’t mine):

Dreamcatcher

I’m quite happy with this one.

Hibiscus tattoo (2 pics)

I did the turtles two weeks ago. Both sets of tattoos are my own design.

When I finished this, Miss Autumne found NO technical mistakes in it.

:D Happy Apprentice Face

One more tattoo today

Beth Wilson, cousin of the lady I did the Hibisci on earlier.
My own design, taken from her suggestions.

Two tattoos today so far

First pic is a composite, same girl I did the tribal pikachu on 2 days ago.
Done on her right ankle in “Blue Balls Blue.” LoL

Crossed flintlock pistols for a kid in the National Guard Armory Military Police.
He has to come back in 3wks for a touchup of a couple lines, otherwise not too bad.

A third tattoo, and what a loser I am

Last things first. What a loser I am. I am single. I am alone, because the x took the kids tonight and tomorrow. I am a tattoo artist, so I meet a lot of (shall we say interesting to say the least) people. So what am I doing on this exciting Friday night?

I’m going to Oskies to have a brew with my 2 older sons. One of whom isn’t old enough to drink but he makes a dandy Designated Driver.

On an up note, I’m wearing the little black skinny-strap sundress that I sleep in sometimes, and sandals. So at least I look cute.

On to the tattoo. This is Tater Bivens, on whom I did the bearclaws with turquoise and tribals a couple weeks ago. He had an(other) old hideous tattoo which he insists was a crawdad:

I covered it this evening with a kick-ass dragon. In a couple weeks when we can see if the black needs touching up, we’re gonna add smoke flames around it here & there to finish hiding the old tattoo. This one took about 3 hours.