Simone is a snowboarder – just in case it can make any difference of course! Started this one a couple of weeks ago, so the color is fresh while the black is healed, which is always slighlty odd to notice somehow.

Oh yes and I spent last sunday in a cold and wet abandoned factory with my buddy Hemo. Really nice frame, had a lot of fun, even though my throat hasn’t been that happy since then. No pain no gain.

It’s always nice to work on calves. Gabriele wanted to go for a hand and the sentence, i felt like adding a maze to complete the concept and we both agreed that the whole thing worked well. Nuts.

Good to see taht you can get a half sleeve done in a single session (it hurts a little but hey, you don’t have to come back after all).

Highlights of the week.

I want to be Bill Murray, one day.

We die young, 33×24, plain marker on plain paper. Sweet.

Psycanalisis, 33×24, marker on paper. Thanks for inviting me on Christmas.

Just to let you know, that was my first afternoon of the year.

Always funny to tattoo Michele. And thanks for the present, buddy.

Love key.

Just closed Paolo’s calf. Had a yellow carp on the other side last spring and we felt like adding some background and a flower to make it look complete.

Just finished a pretty cover-up work, too. Alessio had this mispelled tattoo (‘fourever’, as you may notice, that obviously meant to be ‘forever’) so we re-worked the whole forearm with a decorative piece. The picture really sucks, sorry. This is due both to the mix ‘healed black / fresh colors’ and to the fact that I can’t take a decent indoor picture.

A quick calavera.

Tad are my heroes.

And got a rockabilly skull on Matteo’s chest as well. Seems like it’s skull time lately. Thanks for diriving three hours and half to get this.

Needless to say, I forgot as always to take a picture of this cover-up work BEFORE actually starting the cover-up work. But you can still say what was there from this shot.

And, this is where we got after a little bit of effort. Hope it’s worth the pain felt.

There was a blank space on Agostino’s chest and it was time to stab it.

Michele from Trieste hsa a brand new website, take a look and bookmark: www.michelelabbate.com

Last but not least, the song of the day.

Bringing back a skull to Naples!

Art lesson.

Mestre, Meeting of styles 2011. Typer, with a snapshot of Verbo at work. Soon will be hopefully getting the pictures of the entire wall…

Bark at the moon. Single session workout, ugly picture – damn winter.

Learn to fly, would you?

Francesca wanted something displaying both weakness and strenght, and told me more or less to whatever I felt like doing. No wait, she actually told me to do whatever I felt like doing. Here’s the result.

Added a playful heart below the portrait of Matteo’s daughter!

Oh I also had this double cover-up to do last saturday. Covering two tattoos at once was a little tricky but he wanted an half sleeve piece to it wasn’t that hard after all. Here’s the timeline of the morning!

10.30 am

11.30 am

1.30 pm

Andrea’s all seeing eye

Lumo is proud of being a redhead. Genious.

I’ll be working at the Florence Tattoo Convention this weekend. Don’t miss it.

Some ink?

Simone came back to hit his forearm with a colorful call of the wild.

Just married!

Go get your candies, it’s day of the dead almost.

Marcek from Stuttgart. Did you know I spent a new year’s eve in Stuttgart ten years ago? It started snowing and we had no plans at all so we ended up in random pub. Just wanted to let you know.

Space filling? Yes.

Good luck Dalila.

What are tou doing next weekend?