From here to eternity

Here’s Cris and his freshly inked forearm. Talking about deers, ever read Fred Vargas’ ‘This Night’s Foul Work’?

In a few days we’ll be leaving for New York.
Sweet.

I can’t decide which one

Once upon a time

Before every ‘fixed gear – tight jeans – vans shoes – plaid skirt – huge glasses – loose beanie’ kind of idiot started putting the word freemasonry in every sentence, there was a time when every ‘no more baggy pants, i’ll get white shirt and a slickback on the top of that’ kind of idiot felt like he pretended to be a sailor. Funny how quick things change.
For those of you who – like my customer does – just doesn’t care about vice magazine telling you how to act if you wanna look cool, here’s a nice black and gray sailing ship. Have a nice sunday!

You see two guys, you think dirt

No, seriously: it’s just Corrado tattooing. Shame on you.
Anyway.
I’m pretty far from being a religious person and neverthless I always found christian imaginary so strangely attractive. It’s so terribly dark and yet romantic somehow. Don’t you find churches very scary? I do. Oh well what I was trying to do was saying that I enjoy drawing a little bit more accurate things from time to time and the following Virgin Mary is the proof. Thanks to the large amount of black I would probably get stabbed for doing it in Los Angeles, but I both enjoy strong visual contrast and live comfortably far from California, so everything’s fine from my point of view.

Want some LA Lakers chalice?

Just put a couple of colors on Elenia’s piece we started last month (or should I say last year)

Values here!

Today it’s Chill time! Peach-flavoured tea and ink tanks ready on my desk: cool plans for such a foggy day, isn’t it?
Going back to more serious issues, last evening I put a nice ‘family’ piece right on the back of our shop manager thigh, Kre.

She also paints beautiful skate decks – you can check them here and, why not, also buy one. Support your local scene!
Then Andrea came for a heart-and-shacking-hands chest piece. Sure he spent quite a painful morning but we both were happy at the end and that’s what really counts uh?

Ok I admit I went a little big for this one

As seen some posts ago, Diego came in last month to cover the barbed wire on his biceps:

His idea was a little black tribal thing, but in my mind the barbed wire obviously led to the thorns that led to the sacred heart with roses that led to a Jesus head that led, oh well, stranght to a full-colored half sleeve.

Tattoo shops are a little bit like the NBA ads: where amazing happens. Cool.

While listening to “The dark side of the moon”, I suppose

Welcome back to 2010. It was ‘the future’ a bunch of movies ago, isn’t it?

Before the turn of the century…

As I previously said, I took advantage of the Christmas chill to start painting a little bit more. I had a couple of drawings going so I just had to sit down and watercolor them with a cup of tea under the warm light of the falling sun. Pretty zen thing uh?

And, please: next time somebody stop me before I start tracing flames without outlines like the ones you can see below. It took eons to finish them – not because it’s too difficult, but because it’s so boring.

Oh well it’s Christmas time again.

Christmas basically means getting stuffed, sleep too much and finally have a lot of time to draw and paint.
That’s why I find very silly when everybody start complaining about how useless and boring Christmas is – I mean, take it easy and it can be pretty sweet after all.
In the meanwhile, going back to tattooing…

For those of you familiar with “pierced hearts and true love”, here’s the best flash of the whole book repainted for good. I never saw it tattooed and, well, it’s such a shame I guess.

Last but not least, today I chilled and found a couple of hours to paint this married couple with two small drawings I sketched last summer and never used.