biomechanical crazy skeliton dude.

So! today was spent doing 4 and a half hours of linework on this super colourful sleeve to be.....
he's booked in again for about 2 weeks, and we're gonna lay down the black shading.....then the goodness comes. the COLOUR! i normally really don't enjoy bio mech, but throw a skull in the mix, and i pretty much free handed the majority of it, so it was fun.







yesterday was spent well on 2 nice ol' roses, and i tattooed my brother at the end of the day. he's one of the few (FEW!) ppl who i'll work on for free, after all, blood is thicker than ink! haha





and finally, the star crossed website has been totally revamped! REVAMPED i tell ya! we even have guestbook now (fancy!) go friggin' sign it y'all! u might need to delete starcrossedtattoo.com from ur cache, coz websites and technology remember stuff, so check out the new, fancy ass, awesomeness that is www.starcrossedtattoo.com ! woo hoo!

painting tattoos of tattoo paintings

So today was fun. did a one shot half sleeve on a tattoo virgin (good going by the way!). its based on a HUGE painting he was given, we thought we'd have to miss loads off seeing as him arms weren't too big, but as it worked up, i pretty much squeezed it all in.

Heres a couple of shots of it:

monkeys and machines = perfect day

so yesterday ruled! i got up soooooper early (9am......i cant remember the last time i was awake before midday!) to rush to the studio coz there was a tattooer travelling from spain and i was not gonna let him leave without doing a piece on me!



(thanks i LOVE IT!) (i'm hoping someone can translate that for him) he spoke barely any english, but we managed. so i got a kick ass monkey hand with a rose n stuff. Loving it! so 4 hrs later, i tattoo my customers for the rest of the day, and i did another mammoth godzilla of a piece! sat through it like a trooper.



and heres a piece i did the day before. "Ashes" and "Dust" for those of you who dont read german!
OOoohh....and i almost forgot! I got a brand spankin new tattoo machine yesterday too! Life is good i tell ya! Woop woop and all that jazz.



Tomorrow, a half sleeve and a design i have been meaning to finish since the dawn of man. (sorry ! you know who u r)

The men in my life rock!

Quick post before i start my next tattoo, a few good hours work on an elbow....ouch!
On a lighter note, Buster makes a kickass cowboy!

The Dearest

So yesterday I managed to squeeze 2 of the guys from "The Dearest" in for tattoos. They are a band from Canada who are at the tail end of their tour. Then, as standard......off to AMAZONIA!
Here's the pics of their tattoos.....





And here's a puppy portrait i did today. SO CUTE!



I'm so relieved tomorrow is my day off! It's been so hectic at work, I feel like I need a week off!

yesterday came suddenly...

so here's the mammoth piece that kept me workin til the wee hours....



and here's my favorite from today...



apologies i didnt crop them, quick post on the ferry home again!

Sugar Spice n' Everything nice!

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what followed fell like mercury to hell

so yesterday was quite possibly the busiest we have ever been. from the moment i got to the studio, til about 12am i was tattooing solid.....like crazy solid.....like oh my god i need a cigarette but there is no time and i'm gonna kill someone solid.

so i knew i was fully booked, but then i got a walk in first thing, so i squeezed her in, then what i thought was one booking was 2, then i had to squeeze another guy in who was leaving the next day, and in total i did 7 pieces, not like teeny tiny pieces, like proper tattoos. i was so happy to go home, and i would have posted this last night, but i couldnt get an internet connection, so here i am posting it today on my way to work, where once again i'm fully booked, but today will be an easy day in comparison.

anyways, what i really came online to do is to post the finished pic of the piece i did at the skin n inks closing party.....so here it is. really i should post 2 pics so u can see all the sides, but i couldn't get an amazing photo, and by the time i was done, i didn't really wanna sit around any longer. so heres the best pic i got. enjoy!

I'm no abacus but you can count on me!

So I finally designed a piece for skin n inks, and Danny loves everything to do with anything and everything nautical, so this piece had his name written all over it. I ended up doing a 3 hr job on his forearm at Cliq, and was pretty happy to be done in time to get a few drinks down too.

Obviously workin outta the shop can be kinda akward, but the conditions we were in were better than many, i'm just glad i thought to bring a fan coz the lights were crazy hot, and i honestly felt like i was gonna end up in a puddle on the floor.

The auction seemed to go well to. One of my canvases was included in the live bidding (the rest are getting auctioned off via e mail), and sold for $11,000, which all goes to the Kely Support Group.

Heres a couple of pics from the night (thanks Jeff and Ross!)

Dior Dahhhhhling

So spent my entire day off doing make up for a Dior photoshoot with HK actress, Karena Lam. The job was meant to be 2 hours, but low and behold.....6 hrs later, we just about scraped something together! It was all a bit crazy, and we actually got a lot done, considering the time. We did "tattoos" (not real....) on the lovely lady, 2 full sleeves, hand tats, and a full chest piece.
Looking forward to seeing the prints, as I couldnt hang around and watch the shoot, as I had dinner plans with firends, that i was 3 hours late for (sorry guys, the food was AWESOME though!)
I must say Ms Lam sat super still for 6 hours, and was a great sport, I just hope she could wash it all off ok! (japan?!) anyways, tomorrow is the closing party at Cliq for Skin n Inks, and I'll be tattooing there, so its all go. Wish me luck!
Until then...........

what a day!

so today..... besides tattooing my arse off, being sick as a dog, and getting rained on...... MY F@#CKING mobile phone got stolen.....IN MY STUDIO! I dont know what kinda a**hole thinks its ok to waltz in asking me how i'm gonna fix his piece of shit tattoo he got in thailand, wastes my time over a consultation, then f*#ks off with my phone. Now trust me, its annoying enough when your phone gets nicked, but this is my WORK phone. this is the number EVERYONE calls on. So now, I'm gonna have to drag my ill as hell ass outta bed about 3 hours early tomorrow, just to go get a new SIM card, and buy the sorriest piece of shit phone i can find, to replace my old one. So "mr crap calf piece japanese space themed tattoo that looks like it was done by a blind chimpanzee with no opposable thumbs" if i ever see your ugly face in my shop again, expect to get a new hole ripped open and your head shoved up it.

among other things....here's how i spent the rest of the day

got a couple of tattoo designs done, and 2 paintings finished. FINALLY!



not sure what to do with these, maybe t shirts, or new shop signs.....hmmmmm. i'm thinkin t shirts for the geisha at least.



anyways.... too much thinking, i'm off to Ned Kelly's for dinner, some rag time jazz and drinks. night night.

lost but not forgotten

so i was diggin' about the computer and found this pic of a tiger i did a few weeks back. we managed to get it all done in like......a 5 hour sitting. god know's how, and i'd rather have had more time on this one (bit of a mad rush towards the end! i'm sure he felt it.), but he was visiting HK. Just realised i never posted this pic, so here's a putty cat on a rock.



had a cancellation (well.....they rescheduled for another day)today, so my last few hours at work got freed up. i'm pretty happy about it coz i got a lot of artwork to work on, so i should be able to get some of that outta the way. for anyone waiting on designs, i'm sorry i'm really backlogged. i'm fully booked for the next 2 weeks, and have barely any time to get designs done, so once again "i'm sorry"! should get some done in the next few days, among other stuff i'm working on.... and hopefully some new pics to post soon too!