well, do ya?

this is already turning out to be one of my favorite years! so many fun projects and good people...

first up today is a crazy fun tattoo in homage to Clint Eastwood and his role in Dirty Harry.

second up is a new print that will be hanging in the SOMOS Gallery Show, Starting Friday Feb. 3rd! Don't be square, come out and support local art!!!!

this fellow is 20"x22" a very short edition of 7, black ink on cardstock, 12 hours of carving. come get some!!!

ART SHOW!!!!!

Erin and i will be participating in the Painless show at SOMOS gallery in Salinas, starting Fri. Feb. 3rd at 7pm...click here for the SOMOS website

Friday the 13th!!!!!

here are our posters for the upcoming Friday the 13th art show! two-color edition of 37 cut into MDF plywood (my new favorite material, officially replacing tortillas). Check out the 'news' section at www.oldetowntattoos.com for more info....

Also i am excited to announce the addition of Dave 'Mutha****in' Sinor to our crew!!!!!! welcome dude! show him love here and here.

happynisms art show sneak peak

we got an email last month from a Belgian Urban Artist named Monk (click here for his facebook) who had a really fun premise for a collaborative art show... he would provide illustrations of people on watercolor paper and have tattooers from all over, well, put tattoos on'em! here's how mine turned out. check out Erin Honest's blog to see her offering as well!

ART SHOW!!!

Come out to Santa Cruz the evening of July 1st for the 8's and Aces All Americana Art Show, this mutha's gonna be a doozy! Thanks to 8's and Aces Tattoo for the sweet poster, hand-screened by Kent!!

April Fools Art Show/ Prints For Sale

if you find yourself with nothing to for april fools, get yer rear down to Santa Cruz and cruz on by Eights and Aces Tattoo on Soquel @ Ocean to see some great stuff! here's my offerings....

also of note, i have a bunch of prints from the Year of the Rabbit show from earlier this month and they are for sale!!!! this is what they look like......all prints hand carved, hand pressed and hand numbered with love in handmade envelopes...email for ordering...peepeehedart@yahoo.com

'carrot dream' single color linocut, edition of 24, hand pressed on card stock, 4x7 $5 each

'til good liquor carry me down' two color linocut, edition of 12, hand pressed on watercolor paper 12x12 print $20 each

'daikoku's hare' single color linocut, triptych, edition of 9, hand pressed on watercolor paper, 9x12 $50 for set of 3

marching on, or gettin' mah march on!

happy march everyone! it's the third month of the year, which would be the firebird or thunderbird month if evaluated from a playground perspective (first the worst, second the best...). it's almost time to put yer seeds in the ground and i have a sweet-ass plant tattoo for you.

this is a neat 3/4 sleeve in progress, so pardon our dust...

also we are having an ART SHOW tomorrow night at Eights and Aces Tattoo in Santa Cruz, there'll be a bunch of great people and good art. a bit of what i've been up to for the last couple weeks.

the show will prolly be hanging for a month or so, so if you're in SC go swing by and shackadow.