Starts and Finishes

Finished this car up, and added the old lamp post background, I'm actually doing the same tattoo on her husband , too, not as far along on that one though.

I started this pheasant half sleeve last week, In a few weeks, I'll be adding flowers and more rocks filling the rest out.

I drew on the inner piece to finish out James' biomech half sleeve I started last year.

Worked on Zoe's roses some more, next time I'll bring down some more roses lower, and add more leaves to the whole thing.

Started this guy, background coming soon.

Added this crab to the other side of this koi I started last summer, more water next time.

Added this hanya to Tiara's inner calf, I already did the other side, and will be adding sakura and wind next time to complete it.

A little one-shot mini-koi.

Finished off both half sleeves that I started on Nikki a few years back.

 Cameron stopped by to let me take healed pics from this last summer tattoo.

 End of the night walk-in skull.

 Next painting coming down the Pike.

Another One Down...

Finished up another painting, should have prints soon.......also going to add a webstore to my main site to make things a lot easier....this is 18x24.

Process

A lot of people like these kind of posts, so I'm going to go through what goes into the making of a painting for me.

First of all is the inspiration, I was going through an old sketchbook looking for a line drawing for a tattoo, and I was checking out these study sketches for a tattoo I did around 2003. It was some underwater mech I did as a lower leg 'sleeve' from the knee down. It was one of the first tattoos I did like that, and while I would do a million things different now, I really liked those claws.

Next up was some research.....no google or other people's tattoo websites, I'm not down with lame shortcuts. I settled on kind of a lobster/prawn hybrid.

After that, I made some actual size rough sketches, I have a bunch of 24"x36" illustration board I need to use up, so I decided to fill a whole sheet. I used brush pens for this because they are good for sketching fast.

Moving on from there, I transferred the lines of the lobster, and some of the waves; and lightly sketched the rest of the background right on the board.

Once I was done with that, I began the tedious task of lining this thing out, still mostly brush pens, and a few Pitt pens and tiny brushes for the little details. I wanted it to stand out from far away, but reveal little details and patterns as you get close up on it. Then I started blocking in the water bars and finger waves with watercolor ink.

Starting the color with some light washes.

Many washes later, and time to overlay patterns of opaque liquid acrylic on top.

The final painting, I took this pic before I remembered to sign it. Only thing left to do now is scan this in sections, join them in photoshop, and make any adjustments before making prints.

I don't know what I'm going to do with the original yet, maybe sell it, or hang at the studio.

Butterfly Prints

Hello, I have some new prints from my butterfly painting I made last month. They are on Super A3+ (13x19) Epson Velvetfine paper. They are $40 shipped in the U.S. Email me @ tatmaker75@gmail.com for my paypal info. Thanks.

Update Fest

 Gotta crank the pellet stove if I want to get any painting done this time of year.

Starting a new painting amidst the technology loop.

Main office at Tatmaker Industries.

It's important to sync bbqing with painting.

Prints of this real soon.

In prog. 7/10th sleeve.

Glenn's arm, part fresh, part healing, part healed.

In prog. mech coverup sleeve.

X-ray shells

In prog. St. Mike sleeve.

This is what happens when my appts. don't show up...

Print final help...

Finished up most of the Aaron Cain add on piece.

Thumbnail study and lines for some mech I did last year.

I gotta get finished pics of this thing.

Flowers are fresh, waves and lines still pealing.

Ballpoint boredom madness, this is usually happens when I'm on the phone.

Tattooed my take on the old jim phillips cory o'brien graphic, that was fun, did a lucero one too, but didn't get any pics.

It's the motion in the ocean, or something like that...

2006

Dug out some flash originals from 1997, the designs on this sheet alone are literally on a few thousand people.

2003, hangs in my foyer...

Represent.

New painting maybe?

Bye!