kissin' hands and shakin' babies

the most important piece of anyone's shameless self-promotion arsenal has to be the business card (american psycho anyone?)... being marginally infatuated with art and making stuff, i have made my own business cards in the past and have taken up the practice again.



 i took over the shop on an off day and made it my own personal print studio.

these are linocut prints, an edition of 784 on 3 colors of paper, sepia ink, yeah buddy....

orange....

green......

and some brown, too!
if anyone is interested i also have an edition of 10 uncut proof sheets on white, 140lb hot press watercolor paper, signed and numbered, of course. 20bux each or awesome trade.

afternoon delight

painted and hung this fella (and lady) recently. the American Traditional take on Japanese tattoo motifs is easily my favorite mode of tattoo art. its readability appeals to my troglodyte western mind, breaking intensely detailed designs down to simpler shapes and larger fields of black, effectively translating a whole backpiece of badass into a strong and dynamic one-point. cliff raven, paul rogers, heck, most old-timers had some really fantastic versions of these guys. check'em out!!!

fizzy pig-based beverage

today's offering is a healed picture! healed pictures are most exciting, especially with tattoos that approach a portrait-like effect, which this certainly did... this is the mascot from an album by that one band with the crazy bass player guy that does the big New Years show in SF every year...

i am happy with the outcome.

dirty feet and flies

It is great to be back on the coast! We went camping with a bunch of good timin' people on the icy Kern river this weekend and enjoyed lots of sun, dirt, and freezing natural water slides!!!

This tattoo seemed an appropriate post after a camping trip, because, well, sometimes you gotta poop in a bucket. In fact sometimes things get so rustic that you gotta pee on a turd, like my wonderful girlfriend did on the scenic hiway 1.... it went something like this...

what an exhilarating week! made lots and lots of tattoos and drawings and even found time to get a little somethin' myself! Just a couple of the finished projects rendered....

some real pretty script on our favorite assistant brewmaster, keep that arm outta the fermenter!

and this tough so and so sat through this whole tattoo, just short of 4 hours! for those of you who have yet to get this part of your torso tattooed, it doesn't feel that great. this fella gets a 10 out 10.

August is looking like it's gonna be a fantastic month!!!