Do you have a tattoo?

[The Moose]

This guy was having lunch a couple of tables over the other day...

[TheJimi]

The Moose & Cool Hands - next time, try something like "interesting tattoo mate, what's the story behind that"?

Works wonders :-)

Edited by TheJimi on Tuesday 26th November 13:34

[Uppy89]

7 hours in the chair for a cover up for me yesterday. Just need to get it finished off in January.

[smithyithy]

Productive weekend in London. Drove down to Hackney on Friday morning, stayed overnight at a Premier Inn next to Sang Bleu London.

On Friday I'd arranged for one these signature girls by Brian aka 'Sewp' - I'd booked the full day though and he said he could probably do it in a few hours, so he drew up the seocnd piece, the knife and flowers, which we did in the afternoon and joined them together with the webbing. The girl is outer calf, the knife is inner. Took about 6 hours all-in:












Saturday I was booked in with Mike aka 'Maic', who does this cool traditional hatched style pieces. We'd discussed ideas over email as there's a famous series of woodblock drawings fromt he 1500's by Hans Holbein called The Dance of Death. Mike has done a couple from series already, so we decided on 'The Knight' as the drawing of choice. Ended up being bigger than I imagined actually, but he was confident he could knock out this scale in one sitting, and it turned out really well in terms of allowing all of the details to be clear etc.






So roughly 9 hours needle time over 2 days, combined with 7 hours driving. Suffice to say I'm fking knackered today

Can't thank the artists enough though, really nice guys and great to work with. The studio has a great mix of resident and guest artists from around the world too so deifnitely worth checking out, and as I say there's a Premier Inn next door, and a tube station / reasonable car parking a couple of minutes away, so ideal if you're travelling down.

I'm back there in March I think for some colour peices on my other leg.

[ben5575]

Lovely work. That Dance of Death is beautiful.

[smithyithy]

Cheers dude

[pidsy]

Sewp has done a great job on that piece! I really like that.
Do you mind saying what his day rate is?

[smithyithy]

pidsy said:

Sewp has done a great job on that piece! I really like that.
Do you mind saying what his day rate is?

Thanks dude.

£1300 is his day rate for London, definitely not the cheapest!

[smithyithy]

Been busy again..

'Dead Space' on left leg:



And then decided a palm tattoo was a good idea (hint - they hurt):



Edit to add: Both done by 'Weaver Tattoo' at Modern Body Art, Birmingham.

Edited by smithyithy on Wednesday 19th February 16:16

[ben5575]

smithyithy said:

Been busy again..

'Dead Space' on left leg:

That's amazing! Who's it by?

[HTP99]

Had this done last week:

[Harrythecat]

Not long left maybe another 6 hours, bits of this have been emotional

Edited by Harrythecat on Wednesday 19th February 15:46

[Fas1975]

HTP99 said:

Had this done last week:

That's up there with one of the nicest pieces I've seen.

[smithyithy]

ben5575 said:

That's amazing! Who's it by?

Cheers dude, forgot to add the artist credit to the post - it was by Weaver at Modern Body Art, Birmingham.

Harrythecat said:

Not long left maybe another 6 hours, bits of this have been emotional

That's a big'un, solid work!

[WJNB]

Dear me most certainly not ever because:

I'm not an old sea salt.
I'm not a Traveller.
I don't self-harm.
I don't have deep-seated insecurities about my body.
I'm not so weak as to need to comply with silly fashion.
I'm have a strong enough independent personality not to depend on peer group approbation.
I'm sensible enough to know that many many years ahead tattoos are going to look SO old fashioned.
I have actually worked out that should I need to remove a tattoo it may prove impossible or at best leave horrible scars.
I'm not overweight, smoke like a chimney or proud to be working class, characteristics that I have always associated those who have tattoos.

[HTP99]

WJNB said:

Dear me most certainly not ever because:

I'm not an old sea salt.
I'm not a Traveller.
I don't self-harm.
I don't have deep-seated insecurities about my body.
I'm not so weak as to need to comply with silly fashion.
I'm have a strong enough independent personality not to depend on peer group approbation.
I'm sensible enough to know that many many years ahead tattoos are going to look SO old fashioned.
I have actually worked out that should I need to remove a tattoo it may prove impossible or at best leave horrible scars.
I'm not overweight, smoke like a chimney or proud to be working class, characteristics that I have always associated those who have tattoos.

Great, thanks!!

[ben5575]

HTP99 said:

WJNB said:

Dear me most certainly not ever because:

I'm not an old sea salt.
I'm not a Traveller.
I don't self-harm.
I don't have deep-seated insecurities about my body.
I'm not so weak as to need to comply with silly fashion.
I'm have a strong enough independent personality not to depend on peer group approbation.
I'm sensible enough to know that many many years ahead tattoos are going to look SO old fashioned.
I have actually worked out that should I need to remove a tattoo it may prove impossible or at best leave horrible scars.
I'm not overweight, smoke like a chimney or proud to be working class, characteristics that I have always associated those who have tattoos.

Great, thanks!!

Well to be fair this is PH, so this kind of nonsense should be expected .

Nice work by the way. Very similar to mine in the same placement.

[sc0tt]

WJNB said:

Dear me most certainly not ever because:

I'm not an old sea salt.
I'm not a Traveller.
I don't self-harm.
I don't have deep-seated insecurities about my body.
I'm not so weak as to need to comply with silly fashion.
I'm have a strong enough independent personality not to depend on peer group approbation.
I'm sensible enough to know that many many years ahead tattoos are going to look SO old fashioned.
I have actually worked out that should I need to remove a tattoo it may prove impossible or at best leave horrible scars.
I'm not overweight, smoke like a chimney or proud to be working class, characteristics that I have always associated those who have tattoos.

Thanks for your valuable contribution

[HTP99]

ben5575 said:

Nice work by the way. Very similar to mine in the same placement.

Thanks, I have a larger piece on my other arm in the same placement, in a similar style, I posted it up a couple of years ago.

[Rewe]

WJNB said:

Dear me most certainly not ever because:

I'm not an old sea salt.
I'm not a Traveller.
I don't self-harm.
I don't have deep-seated insecurities about my body.
I'm not so weak as to need to comply with silly fashion.
I'm have a strong enough independent personality not to depend on peer group approbation.
I'm sensible enough to know that many many years ahead tattoos are going to look SO old fashioned.
I have actually worked out that should I need to remove a tattoo it may prove impossible or at best leave horrible scars.
I'm not overweight, smoke like a chimney or proud to be working class, characteristics that I have always associated those who have tattoos.

A simple ”no” would have been enough!