Thursday, August 29, 2013

Skull backpeice tattoo- in progress

full back giant skull tattoo
matts full back biomech skull tattoo in-progress
taking a trip down memory lane, you can see the structure is there, hard to believe this all started out with a ambitious "fuck it" attitude, and some markers.
being very proud of this tattoo, and it only makes me want to get my back lasered off finally and re-worked/ covered/ fuckoff-huge-done

honored to have clients that dont restrict my creations, SPOILED, really, so many awesome clients who all just show up on time to get my vision scribed into their flesh until the day they die and turn unto human jerky, hell, even then, in their decomposing moments, theyll still have the artwork i crafted onto their dermis.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

poseidon tattoo

Poseidon statue tattoo
Poseidon nautical artwork
Poseidon statue underwater tattoo with a tentacle of the kracken sort of wrapping up next to him, man.. lots of underwater/nautical tattoos lately, funny considering how many people in MINNESOTA probably dont get out to the ocean much, hu?

dont get me wrong, i like the tattoos, i just wish i wasn't working on as many ocean themed sleeve tattoos as i currently am, i mean, how many octopus's can i make look different?
guess i should work on that...

....challenge accepted....


btw i want time off -___-

Sunday, August 18, 2013

octopus tattoo, and table designs

dead fish ashore
 a dead fish i found :D because stopping to take a picture of a corpse is fun! bawhahah
Giant octopus tattoo
Joe's colorful Giant Kraken octopus sleeve tattoo
 this is joes ocean octopus nautical tattoo sleeve that iv been working on, no real pictures existed until now, almost been at it for a year, and hes defiantly grown in bulk because he works out like a machine... second pass on some ideas in the tattoo finally, heavily needed it i personally think, most of the richer vibrant colors are the second pass, with ink underneath it, they should compile and create a more saturated vibrant tattoo.
Nautical dome citys in underwater tattoo
 dome city's underwater in background of octopus
furniture table sculpture concept ideas
concept drawings for table
 table measurements below, but, designing the middle coffee like table that will sit between the couches art the holy mackerel, been feening for a project like this, and im a practical application person, was thinking they'd be too brutal, so i asked verno, he immediately pointed out the bottom one, the one i was leaning towards anyway, we agreed on it being non offensive, tho, i think the ghoulish properties of this might strange some people out. willing to saw in half a full grown hose skull i have
thinking of a apoxie, or bar top submersion to create unity, and give it that, "bug in amber" sort of cool look, while illuminating certain parts, full sized cheap ass medical skeleton on its way, as well as a female headless mannequin for cheap, looking into EL  wire to create, uh... lighted quill, or hair looking things on the creatures back?weaving in between the skulls, on, and the upper part sits against the wall...
looks like fun, and welding, things i like :3
very excited.
holy mackerel measurments for coffee table sculpture
holy mackerel measurements for coffee table sculpture

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Squid submarine painting

Octopus attacking Submarine Oil painting by DAVID Ekstrom
Octopus attacking Submarine artwork for the Holy Mackerel's new shirt designs
Squid submarine painting iv been working on for the t-shirt design for the holy mackerel, no screen printing for this guy, apparently digital printing is getting more affordable, tho i painted it 10% bigger then print size, im sure they can change it, first time ever taping off the foreground figures in layers, and stripping it away after painting the background in... hopefully this makes it to print, because i defiantly put some elbow grease in it

the idea of it is a tragedy, something that if you were viewing, you'd say "HOLY MACKEREL", assuming you didn't use profanity, which i would, honestly.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

SKULL ARM

Skull hand tattoo
Tyler's Skull Handjob tattoo
Skull hand tattoo i got to work on today...
chill guy, friend of friends,  with what hes been talking, alot more grim and discusting tattoos to come illistrated by me and worn by him, should be rad, finding clients like these makes me happy :D