Hi

I had the misfortune of visiting this dump on my tour of America.

It was donwtown Chicago so i had to drag my arse to find it when I wnt in there must have been 5 artists sat around doing sweet FA.

Did any of them greet me?

Nope.

I had to walk over and ask for their portfolio’s – he was tutting and sighing about getting his arse off the…[Read more]

Hi

I know the artists you mean and they do some great work prob the best in the headingley area.

Here is a few samples of tattooed roses

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fZk222Kx1ls/SKFI2Tb0cAI/AAAAAAAAAVE/JbyE4YZNAyE/s400/tatooed_women_033.jpg (old schoolish style)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3058/2296857560_a86a647b8f.jpg (modern)

The thing…[Read more]

Hi

Have you read my piece on prejudice and hand tattooing?

I can assure you that after many interviews with employers and people with hand tattoos unless you are self employed or working within the manual work industry the majority of employers simply won’t employ you.

It all goes back to the issue of customers=money.

If the customer has a…[Read more]

Hi and welcome

Can I ask which artist it is? – I am also from Leeds.

The tattoo will look very nice I would possibly go for a bit darker shading on the roses but again it will look a nice tattoo.

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Matthew

Hi and welcome to the forum.
What do you have planned next as your tattoo?

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Matthew

Hi and welcome to the forum

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Matthew

Tbh.

I am at a complete loss here.

How is that you can have one individual who walks in and says yep I will have that one with no idea what it says and it is on for life?

THEN

You get an ‘artist’ who doesn’t know which way round the stencil transfer actually goes. The damn thing is in front of them how hard can it be??

To be blunt the mind…[Read more]

Some very nice ink.

Who was the artist.

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Matthew

Hi and welcome

Looking forward to sharing your ink

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Matthew

Hi and welcome to the forum.

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Matthew

Hi and welcome

Nice ideas for the ink.

I also write quite a bit in a few genres incl fantasy – do you have any test samples up online i would love to read them.

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Matthew

How long was the sitting a couple of hours?
Which artist are you using?

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Matthew

Hi Sian

For us to help you need to be more specific.

There are thousands of tattoo ideas but first of all you have to decide on the following;

Style: Fantasy, Biomech, Portrait, Floral , Old School, Animal, Religious, or Text?

Black and shade or Colour

Size you say small but how small?

The smaller they are the harder they become for fine…[Read more]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

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Matthew

Hi

I am UK born and currently living.

My wife is from Israel but we travel quite a bit – done most of Europe Israel, Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Saudi, Korea, Thailand and States tour and I am hoping to do Hong Kong, China and Japan as my next set of places to see.

This will prob be in the next 18-24 mths.

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Matthew

Hi

It would make a nice tattoo kind of reminds me of the British artist Banksy who does similar sorts of pieces.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/indoors/index2.html

Here are a few that may…[Read more]

Hi

There are several Japanese themes actually

There is the cherry tree and blossoms that symbolises the passage of life and rebirth

The koi which is endurance and success when faced with hardship

You could have a floating candle on a small pool of water with lotus blossoms.

Could go for a text design of ‘Hope never dies.’

Place really…[Read more]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

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Matthew

Hi and welcome.

Don’t worry too much art is something that should be shared and I enjoy seeing new artists all the time.

We pay for our work and as long as you are not ripping off the orig artists work with somebody else I cannot see the reason for complaint.

The bow sounds a great idea.

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Matthew

Hi and welcome

I love the ink you have actually although the new backpiece will be very sweet design once it is done.

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Matthew