it's like a zoo up in here!

ok haven't had much work-wise to blog....but feel like i should at least blog something. so yesterday was an animal filled day of tattooing. (i always find it weird how stuff gets booked in in themes, like one day i'll just do script.....and one day i just do flowers, and one day....animals. i don't even think i do it subconsciously..... i think it's just..... weird.)

so 1st up is a fun little piece i squeezed in for a girl just visiting who was super keen, and it's for a good reason, so i couldn't say no!



was hard to get a good pics of either piece, right on the shoulder blade, but these'll do...



2nd up is kevin's second shark tattoo. his 1st one healed up really well, softened up perfectly.....and although i don't do a lot of stuff like this, change is good. This one was more difficult than his 1st, as we had no concrete refrence, just bits and bobs from various photos, but we managed.

Anyways, today was my day off, and it was nice just to veg out. it's been 3 months solid that we've had house guests..... first it was michelle, then pieman, then andy, then joe! it's been awesome having them, but it takes it's toll on your flat! so got a bit of cleaning done too.

Back at work tomorrow (oh, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROSS!) it's 2:30am so it counts.....and then we are closed til sunday for easter, so it'll be real nice to have 2 days off in a row!

anyways, here's the new business card design.... wont see these for a while though coz i just found a massive stack of old
ones! typical!

Pretty little place

So yesterday we decided to take the day off work and head off to Macau (where Joe was flying back to Singapore from). Got up crazy early, but it was good coz we had a lot of time to spend wandering about.

I have insane amounts of pics, so i'm pretty sure i'll be posting them for days to come.... but here's a few for now to tide y'all over...













Been really busy at work, and i'm even having to work Ross' Birthday on thurs, but fri we are OFF and there'll be a night of drunken hooliganism i'm sure. Good times....

stick a wick in it.

So quick post about me and Joe's day trip to the Peak....

we met some pretty cool people up there.....







this was AWESOME.... click the pic to read it. news travels slow.....



that's money in my hand......

payback's a bitch

So i got a bloody no show, which means i have time to blog.

Figured i'd post my new tattoo....my god did i suffer. to be honest, after the lines i was ready to tap out, but i knew joe really wanted to finish it....so i stuck with it. all in all it was about 6 and a half hours, but i did take about 6 smoke breaks, so tattoo time was a few less i'd imagine.



thank god for lollypops and madball.... thats all i can say!



close up of the head on my head....



when joe comes back, we might add some background and slime n stuff..... and i might add some background to his ladies.....

it's funny... i say "when he comes back" coz he was supposed to be on a flight this morning to singapore. well....that didnt happen. last night got a bit messy and he figured going all the way to the airport was.... well.... too much like hard work. so we got him for 2 extra days!

In other news, we did a little more work on Sams flamin' heart chestpiece, but no really worth blogging about, and i got to do this cut and paste Mike Giant skull. (he had an image of the top of the skull from a painting on a lady, so i used some other mike giant skulls to work the lower jaw into it). Came out pretty sweet (although it was so so so tempting to shade it.......) and it was fun doing super chunky lines. Might get to do another Giant piece on his other leg if all goes well.....



Ross is singing with Sushi Robot tonight at Grappa's.... so gonna head down there in a minute. Maybe see some of y'all there!

no pain no gain

So yesterdays tattoo kept me working til 4am, hence the lack of the blog. Anyways, i'm much less tired now, (it's 3am the next morning) so figured i'd blog the piece on Joe.

He tried to play it cool for the cameras......



but ended up showing his true colours. poor guy, really suffered, but sat through it all!







So here it is, Miss Anna Tomic and Miss Ally Wrong... get it? anna tomic ally wrong.....



Anyways, all's fair in love n war, and Joe'll be inflicting pain.... a lot of pain on me tomorrow.... hopefully have pics to post these next few days (although i doubt i'm gonna be sitting through a 1 shot....so it might just be linework.) i apologize in advance.

In other news, Ocean Park seems to change their closing times at their own whim, so we ended up on the peak tram, which is almost a roller coaster..... bot not quite....

We did have an awesome day, and lots of pics taken..... so some of that goodness soon too!

Flamin' galah!

if it's printed....it's true. yup.

check this out y'all!

EXCITING!

taco joe ho ho and a bottle of rum...

so not got any tattoo pics to post. seems like all i've been doing recently is script, script and some more.....you guessed it! script.

so i'm afraid all i got are pics from us on the town....yup....more of the same i'm afraid!

i'll be tattooing joe this week and he'll be tattooing me, so will have some pics to post by the end of the week. I PROMISE! in fact, i've already drawn joe's piece, but i'm not really in a sharing mood....so y'all will have to wait!

what better way to start a night out than hanging out with Melvis?!



Jeff from Amazonia has gone and got himself a perm....so we had hours of fun playing that classic game of "dress the guy with the fro"



joe likes keytars..... a lot....



from here you can quite clearly see the downward spiral we rode til we couldn't be bothered to even take pics....

Year of the tiger magazine

So while Joe was way way way up in sky flying along, bored, he picked up the in flight magazine... only to find an article on none other than me. WEIRD! i had no idea.... luckily he's a thieving little so and so and he brought me a copy.
(click the images to enlarge)


my lovely hands gracing the inside of the cover....

it's a small world after all....

so we bumped into the awesome Lina and Job on their way back from guesting at Chapel in Melbourne. I was gutted i didn't know they would be here coz i'd a killed to get a piece by Lina, but alas..... we made the most of the time we had!