go bananas

hmm, so, i am still working on the Valentines flash. hope to get them coloured in by the end of the day. i sheet down, 1 to go. we'll see.

anyways, here's a piece i did last week. Fun 1-shot on a lady who works in a pub up the road... it was her first tattoo, and she sat real well. trooper.

also met up with my good friend Lara and the phenomenal photographic wizard Al Overdrive after his shoot for Biohazard, and went to a swanky cocktail bar where i ordered a vanilla daiquiri that almost knocked my socks off... and lara chose these which were AMAZING

in other news, it's been snowing like the before model from a head and shoulders advert.

yesterday after trying to convince milo that snow is fun (he wasn't having any of it)

i baked an awesome (if i may say so myself) vegan banana cake...

twas really really tasty...

in other news, like all good things, the snow turned to shit pretty quick.

did gimme an excuse to wear my old man socks over my trousers which is never a bad thing though...

right better stop procrastinating and get back to this flash... coz lemme tell ya, it feels more like a decade...less like a flash...

chilli n chilly

so! just found out it has snowed in the Sahara. don't believe me? google it. yup. crazy. england is pretty damn cold too. 1 degree right now in london, and i hear it could drop to minus 10. need to dig out them long johns of mine i reckon.

anyway, to fight the cold, i decided to make some chilli sauce on tuesday...

it's hot. n good. 

i went to an art history talk this week about Suicide in Medieval Art, which was amazing...

here are some shoddy photos i took...

the speaker was utterly adorable. 

it all reminded me of something i heard on the radio the other day about weird coincidences... which went something like this....

so a lovestuck girl killed herself over a boy who broke her heart...

the boys brother shot him, and then proceeded to shoot himself.

little did he know the shot at his brother only grazed his head, and didn't kill him. 

the bullet got lodged in a tree by their house.

some 20 years later, the tree had grown to a huge beast of a tree, and the surviving brother decided to tear it down.

being lazy, he decided to blow it up with dynamite as opposed to sawing it down.

tree blew up, bullet flew out, hit him in the head and killed him.

bam.

i also found some massive gigantic weird pencils in a thrift store...

i tell ya, they made people think i was some sort of photoshop aficionado after seeing this photo on Facebook....

alas, i am a mere mortal, and an aficionado of nothing.

anyways, been working on a special set of flash for valentines week, which be very reasonably priced up. here's a snippet...

done all the lining, but still gotta colour it all (i keep trying to convince myself i don't need to colour them, but i guess i kinda do....)

anyways, eyes peeled people, and if u like what u see, book in sharpish. i think i'll be doing this offer on the friday after valentines day, as V Day falls on a tuesday which is my day off.

boom.

Brighton n Back

So, back from Brighton. Was a good ol' weekend. Had a few nice pieces booked in, first of which was a swallow and anchor on a neck of all places. Great way to start! not really. Luckily i had my headlamp, so i could see what i was doing. She sat really well too. champ.

T'was a lifesaver.

Anyways, the next day i had Lulu in for some octopodes...

was super duper fun to do. Had a smile on my face the whole time.

Also had a cute little walk in at the end of the day Sun... which was nice, as i had someone flake on me just before she came along.

In other news, after a lot of 'umming' and 'ahhing' I entered my backpiece for "best large colour"...

and won.

The trophy is fucking RAD... and i might cry when Jay comes to collect it, coz it's the coolest thing ever. i have grown quite attached to those little guys...

ah well, i treated myself to a kickass deck from a cool stall with very friendly men and cool hats.

So anyways, i'm the only one back at work, as the refurb aint finished, so i'm tattooing out of a little corner surrounded by mayhem. My customer was travelling from Sweden, so she couldn't reschedule, and it was a fun piece to do anyways....

tonight i'm off for another art history talk in the pub, this time the theme is "suicide in medieval art".

should be enlightening.

peaked

so, today the shop is going through a total revamp, as tomorrow we head to the brighton convention, and while we r away, Flamin 8 is having some refurb done. very exciting. also means we've been getting rid of a whole bunch of stock. it's like christmas for me, who is a partial hoarder... partial recycling enthusiast. there's been a bunch of stuff we almost chucked away that i had to salvage, coz somewhere, someone i know will most likely want it. now i just have to find somewhere to keep the stuff until these people ever come collect it. hmm. anyways, i'll sweep that under the rug for now.

even made a pretty shitty hat half decent, with some cutting, gluing, sewing, it went from left to right. much cuter...

yup. 

anyways, better start packing all my gear away...

so til next time... here's a fun walk in i did yesterday...

The Big Cheese off...

So, exciting times on the book of face...

Myself and 4 other very special people (as in special good, not special "special") have started the soon to be worldwide phenomenon that is...

drum roll...........

THE BIG CHEESE OFF!

That's right folks, we are competing for the best cheese on toast. Serious business, i tell ya! It's a closed group, but i thought i would share a screen shot to prove how true my story is....

titillating stuff.... 

just entered mine, so fingers crossed.

here it is in all it's glory...

t'was so good. 

right, i am currently halfway through a few designs for the brighton convention, and half way through 

painstakingly trying to upload cd's to the computer, then my iPod... (this very computer i am typing so gently on at present has no conception of how much i want to smash it's face in for wiping my i pod the other day....)

later, i swim. haven't been swimming in ages. if this is my last post for a while, assume i drowned.

that is all.

aloha

so, super fun piece i just did. have been looking forward to this since he came in. very laid back, didn't bring any reference, and just wanted an old school hula girl, but not the sailor jerry one. so thats what i drew, and here it is.

in other news, i went round Spitalfields yesterday with Rory, which was fun. Haven't been round that area in the daytime for quite some time. Maybe the Russian prison exhibition i went to when i first moved back... anyways, it's been a while, and change is as good as a holiday.

Trawled around a few markets, bought hats and knitwear, and some new glasses frames (i lost my favourite pair on Saturday :( which is devastating to say the least.)

Rory has the patience of a saint, as i pretty much felt the need to walk around every stall. 

Got some cool photos out and about too... 

yes yes. all in all a splendid day really.

after which we went for food, i had roast chicken and found the most insane bone during the mean. i think the chicken was trying to kill me. 

true story.

after dinner we went for a pint at the fairly extortionate Dirty Dicks, missed an amazing old man photo op (Oh! rory... here's the link!), but this text message cheered me up a little! haha

amazing.

cookie cutter fun

so, today i had a super fun 1-shot in, but more on that right after i post about my apocalyptic cookies that i baked for a certain someone's birthday....

hee hee. 

anyways, back to work....

here's one i made earlier...

(5 hours and a kick in the boob later)

click to enlarge peeps.

so in other news, the Brighton convention is fast approaching. i aint fully booked, i have some space sunday and saturday, so do please get in touch if u wanna get a little somethin' somthin'.

good stuff. 

right i'm off. getting dinner cooked for me, and got a party to go to later on... til next time.