Slowly working on a cover-up of a very old half sleeve. We covered ugly roots with a little sleeping fox, and added new life to some sad, sad birds (pictured below in their original form). Still LOTS to do!

 This was a special one. It's the Schrodinger's cat for my long-time friend, Crystal. She and I met when we were 11, and I knew her cat, Pandy, who this is a little tribute to. Super fun with the sketchiness! And after we celebrated with donuts and a little brunch. Boom.

Goods

These are all goodies that are currently being worked on, are about to be worked on, or are yet to be claimed.

 An etched lighthouse half-sleeve from Maine for one of Indy's coffee geniuses, Stephen of Tinker.

Frida for sometime in August! She's flying in from Portland.

Little butterfly for an arm.

 This image is just doodles and goodies, nothing claimed yet! If you're interested, just shoot me an email! Really would love to do more color work.

 Bits of Maia's mythological half-sleeve. This little guy is set for Monday. (He's only around 6"!)

A first draft of a piece we are working on to go with a previous tattoo (the red outline) of a death's head moth. Lots of work to be done transforming this idea.

Turning back time

A Time-turner for Sydney as a little tribute to her sister (as well as to Harry Potter!). 

Early April

Re-saturated this little old guy from a few years back!

Soon-to-be wrist cuff with the root chakra and a lotus. Lovely little lotus cut-out in the inside wrist.

Sketching up something big and fun! Gonna use loose graphite for it. New toys are the best.

Etchings forever

This one will be in all color- one of my first little dives into the traditional realm! Representing life and death for my lady Erin.

These little guys will be part of a whole water-based mythological sleeve. The horse is a Kelpie-- a shape shifting creature that dwells in the water and lures children to their death, and the cherub-type children are based on Cernunnos. Deer-like beasts without hooves.

Super fun one on the back of a calf! Always wanted to do a lil tarot cart.

Colin gave me free reign, and this is where I went. Gentleman bull on the inner forearm.

Tryina' catch up, like always!

 Eames chair for my roommate!

 Some etching and a little script for Kara and Kaitlyn

Started my first ever flash sheet!

Little etched woodsy raccoon for Josh. So fun, and super proud of this one. I even lost the stencil half way through and ended up doing it mostly freehand! 

Magpie on a red fern design for Pierce

A few small commissions I did for a friend out in California. This is them before They were all cut out and neatly framed and all that jazz

Elbow Goliath Beetle for Colin!

Lil rooster buddy to add onto a flash sheet

Sketchin'

Some forgotten sketches

Busy nights

So recently I've been extra lazy during the days and super busy at night. But, I at least manage to shove myself out of the house to a coffeehouse for a few hours every day. Helps me feel a teensy bit productive at least. Or whatever. Buuuut last night, Scott, his roommates and I went to see a band called Kingswood (I think?) at Sydney Uni which was pretty fun. Not a fully packed show or as gnarley of a venue as I'd usually dig, and the crowd was pretty solemn the first half hour, but in all we had a really great time.

And, tonight marks the beginning of a severely EPIC GOLDEN BIRTHDAY WEEKEND!!!! First, Shane, Nick, Sam, Louis and I are driving down to Wollongong for his friend's going away party, where Scott and Scotty are meeting us. Should be a pretty hectic party. Then we are staying the night, and a few of us are heading further south for the day to Jervis Bay! Down there are some incredible white-sand beaches (they claim the whitest sand in the world-- we'll see about that) and a place where birds land all over you! We are going to fish, boat (hopefully), and get drunk by a beachy bonfire before passing out in caravans. Then heading home Sunday for Wellsy's housewarming party! SO JAM PACKED AND SO PUMPED AND SO GOLDEN!

 

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Fin.

 

Meh, done drawing I guess!

So today I went to a coffee house I saw yesterday walking through Surry Hills. No idea what it's called, but it had a sign outside that said "Sex sells, too bad we only sell coffee." They played really great music the whole time, had rad spoons (the dog one may or may not have slipped into my bag) and the barista came up and chatted with me about tattoos. He wants to hang and have a beer/tattoo night, and he has all the gear I'd need! Sounds tempting, but I'm sure there were romantic undertones, and I'm not interested particularly. Nice guy though. Then I walked down Oxford street and went into some great graphic design concept shops, and ended up downtown after a while. I the way home I stopped for a cigarette outside Wake Up! hostel, and ended up meeting these two lovely Israeli girls named Yuval and Noga. We sat inside and then ate dinner together, before they unfortunately had to catch the night bus for Melbourne. But, they'll be back next Sunday--my birthday! They're coming out to celebrate with me! Success on sneaky-hostel-porch-smoke tactics. More to come.

 

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Exciting things to come!

 

So I originally intended to go back to the bakery today, but instead stopped a block short at a restaurant called "Cowbell 808." Cute place covered in graffiti and collage, good music and happy, whistling workers. Unfortunately didn't take a picture of it! I'll try to next time I'm over there, along with the bakery. But I sat there a while and added a little more to my drawing (which is still unfinished), and chatted with the waitress a bit who came and sat down with me, named Grace. Anyway, they closed at three so I trekked off a few miles down the road in search of an art store. I found one eventually, and boy are they more comprehensive here! So much more sweet shit to buy! Eventually I settled on this stuff after staring at fancy water colors for an hour. Super pumped to use it! Expect big updates soon!

Also, I decided Sunday I leave for a backpackers in the Blue Mountains for about four days. They're much cheaper there, and highly rated, plus then I can mountain-hike to my heart's content! Super excited!

 

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Little bits of progress

 

Sat at the Bourke Street Bakery two days ago (and had a suuuuper babely waiter) and added a little bit to the page. Had delicious coffee and a cheese & tomato croissant--the place is incredible. The food is awesome and the staff is lovely. I sat outside all afternoon and four different workers came up and complimented me and then chatted with me a bit! They even stopped by to say goodbye after their shifts ended! I think I'm going to go back there tomorrow for another go.

 

ibis and weird ribbon dancing old people

 

Yesterday I went to the botanical gardens all afternoon, which made for one of my favorite days yet. I was feeling pretty depressed about being stuck in such a big city for a whole month, so this was a much needed little excursion. Saw a foot-long lizard, butterflies, dragon flies, and tons of birds. Got a little sun, too. Then came back and drew this guy, who I'm not a huge fan of, but the type was fun.

 

Then today I went to Bondi Beach, which is a nice beach but I'm not a huge fan. Had a very frustrating time getting there as well. Got on the train which took me to a bus, then got on what I thought was the right bus. It had the proper number and name, but then after about a half hour on it I started to recognize my surroundings and realized it went the exact opposite direction of where I needed to be. So I got off, now 45 minutes from Bondi, with and interview to be at at 10:30 and it was around 10:10. So I nabbed the next bus, and closely followed its route on my gps to make sure I was going the right way. It was perfectly on point for about 35 minutes, and then two stops away starts going some crazy direction away from the beach! So I asked the bus driver and he said I was on the wrong bus. Which I was NOT. So he dropped me off a 15 minute walk away, where I then rushed like a maniac to the interview. I ended up being an hour late, sweaty, frazzled, and frustrated only to discover it didn't really matter. It wasn't even a proper interview, my interviewer wasn't even there (which she didn't tell me when I texted her to tell her I would be late), and mostly I just needed to call a number to get a NSW tattooers license before we can even chat about hiring me. Plus they don't really do guest positions and I'd have to stick around for 6 months. I couldn't handle Sydney another 6 weeks let alone months. Oh well.

 

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