hope

clairity circle.
reroute.

evolveing to evolution, tattoo, bloomington MN

Anyone who uses my blog for infomration, know that as of now (the date and time this post was created) i will be tattooing and doing art out of evolution studios, the holy mackerel is a awesome shop, i have mad respect for them, but it started to feel like not the right home for me... the shopes name and reputation attracted a soon to be 6 month wait, of which i tryed to stop by cancleing new appointments, or new clients sometime in 2013, maybe fallish? begunning of winter? ?? anywase.
basically, evolutions off the beating path more, im hopeing to bring my waiting time down, and actually start haveing a life again... all i do is work, and by work i mean, wake up at 10AM, shit, eat, shower, be on the road by 11AM, get to work by 11:40-12:00 ... dpeneding on traffic, some day it took me a whole hour when the roads were super shitty to get to work, and get back home, thats 2 hours of driveing in a day, just to go to fucking work.

if i worked everyday (and i dont) with a 30 min drive x 365 (days in a year) thats 109.5, times 2 (to get back home) thats 219 hours in a year, spent on the road.

obvusally i dont work 365 days a year, but the math is just a vauge way of me illistrateing that i wanted something closer, evolution studio is significantly closer, and i wont have to fight anyone for parking! :D YAAAYYY

the staff is awesome already, and i havent even started working there, jeff, who i used to work with, jeremy, pooki (who managaes, and has been nothing but a sincere awesome guy) and joe, whos super calm and understanding, everyones been giveing me good vibes, i met the counter lady, i dont know her name yet... and 2.. lof the other artistsd? not enough character developement for them yet, but im excited,

tonight, was a lunar eclipse, at 2:01 AM i watched the shadow of the earth, cast apone the moon, makeing it a red moon, or harvest moon?
pretty cool stuff, and what a weird night to have, when my car is literly full to the brim of stuff i have for work, GOD i have a TON of SHIT.
got to hang out with craig, a ton. missed that motherfucker, him, andrew and ben, are all my best freinds, werll, outside of the industry best freinds. always have been, im hopeing to see them more, since they live in bloomington, and ill be working there.... and hopefully takeing 3 days off. just.... tired of the work load, no releaf was in sight at the HM... all there was was.. work, work work..

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Bulk instagram tattoo update

 Creeper monster face im in progress on.. probally work on it tomarrow.. maybe not, idk.. i painted over a older paintoing this this guy, put the paint on super thick, and used walnut oil, opposed to a alka-whatever stuff, that makes it dry sometime in my lifetime.. blah, still wet parts on it, and its almost been a week, probally just stick with the fast dry stuff for now on XD...mm.. oils..

 ocean sleeve action, because everyones gettinbg them, shitty florescent light picture.. but you get the idea

 another ocean sleeve, this ones alot more illistrative, had alot of fun doing this, plus it helps that the client is a total boss.

 matts back, working away at it... slowly.. someday ill complete the fucking thing xD

 wizardy tree ent thing, on a half sleeve of a giant, this guys 6'6 XD i dont normally have to look up at people, si i made a pretty obvious mental note about it XD ha.. theres a phinoex above the tree pearching on it, and starting it on fire.. shouldnt have blurre dout the top on instagram, makes it look SHITTY

another sleeve, in progress picture, dont normally do alot of in progress pictures because most of the time its the glue holding peices like THIS togeather, ahh.. yes, the fun vulture bird zombie head part of the tattoo.

Half sleeve and rib pannel tattoos

Dan Jay's Celtic cross and knot with dragon half sleeve tattoo

 Dragon holding a celtic infinity knot? something? i dont know, hit up this cross from almost a year or two ago... this guys super great, always a hoot haveing him in to get tattooed, very respectful and understanding, looking forward to doing more work on him, if you seeing this and wondering why the composition is the way it is, for the untrained eye, the cel,tic cross was tattooed first, and the dragon was added as a, expansion for a more full arm appeal, dule meanings and all that teasy stuff for the cleint, but, yeah, dragon stuff, just freehanded it on.

much respect for him.

Alice in wonderland's evil Cheshire cat rib tattoo

Mr derek! this quirky guy always had a pack of wolfs following him, lots of super dark, dark humor at hand, and never being seriouse, ever. xD
wanted a evil cheshire cat.... so, yeah i did that, i think he said it took 13 hours,  plus the 3 it took to polish this guy off.
apparently i tattoo slow? i dont know... whatever. as long as they look cool, theyr only permanent, ya know

bbbbbbbllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

dipped it in, just scarred me more.
if i decay, i cannot stay.
still holding out for something gold.


too much of this will rot your bones.
too cold down here to keep you warm.

Hannya Mask, Resin, Power, and Her.

black and grey hannya mask tattoo with finger waves

Hannya Mask i got the luck to tattoo on a target sunday paper photographer... hannya mask, aka ONI mask? same shit right? possibly different cultures?  iv always loved these masks... theyr probally my favorit japanese criteria tattoos to do, probally because they reminds me of demons.. anything evil, please, get it dont by me xD LOL.. some finger waves and negative space flow lines to tie in to future peices, he has some foo dogs, or temple guardians on the back of both his arms that i did, no idea if hes ever going to solid sleeve out, but so far hes doing pretty good! super chill guy, awesome client.

resin June bug project

Resin june bug i started dicking around with with the girlfreind... decided to splice some moth wings in the mix, this was taken before i added red colored pencile that i ground up for little accents of depth around his butt, ha. this was a pretty fun exorize, expect me to splice a few more bugs togeather in resin by the end of summer :3

 

 the 48 laws of power, seduction, and mastery... the beautiful person in the bottom picture got me reading books, WTF, hah.
super awesome, someone to finally challenge me intellectually, that i actually want to stand ground with. finally, something, someone, gold.

awesome people in my life and a painting

 JOE AND ABBY I MISS THEM, I HAVE SOME OF THE BEST FUCKING CLIENTS IN THE WORLD, these two light up my work week, not day, week, when they come in, they are the best people to hang out with, and if your not doing that with them, its because your stupid, and you suck, basically.

crab head creature crawly thing oil painting

crab face painting, had to make its online presence more offical then the instagram, was stoked on this, mainly because i photo painted with eric S while doing it, was a fun, technology way of "Like, being there" also a good guy!

LIFES BEEN PRETTY FUCKING GOOD LATELY, NOMORE FUCKING WALKIN DAYS I HATED THAT BULLSHIT! WOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTT, AWESOME GIRLFREIND, AWESOME FREINDS IN FAR PLACES, I HAVE MY HEALTH AND A GOOD JOB