"Red Haired little brown girl of wonders" and "Surf Fink in Quasimodo pose"

I paint a lot of women, usually I base them off real ones that bummed me out or girls out of vintage skin mag collections. Which is probably pretty sad if you analyze it, or I just like boobs and I'm a pervert, which is also sad.

This was supposed to be a tattoo on Sean Rennel's foot, he is Co Owner of Inkhouse in Irvine. I left the shop before I had a chance to tattoo it so I just painted it for him instead. Surf Fink is a Roth monster, he's one of my favorites because of that bizarre tube tongue so I paint him pretty frequently. I myself can't surf, but I do have that body. The "BWF" is Beowulf's old logo. Beowulf is a killer thrash band from Venice that was really cool before they made a pop punk album and ruined everything.

Biker skull for Adam

Adam Ciferri, visited our shop and gave me one of his tattoo machines. If you're unfamiliar with him, he's a dude that make tattoo machines that are phenomenal. I made this as a thank you to him. The paint is liquid gold and I made the mistake of licking my brushes as I worked which got me pretty fucking sick. Haha so don't do that.

Awesomeness

I didn't draw this or anything, but both these bands ruled. A lot.

Wizards and Genies

This is a little Rollo Banks wizard I did on my friend Art on 4:20, I did it exactly the way it appears on the sheet, line breaks and all

 This is a old Bob Roberts design, I thought I had killed this tattoo until I saw Ben Grillo had also done it a quarter of the size and better. Go to hell Ben.

Jack Rudy and Mike Malone redux

This is a rip of a Jack Rudy flash design, going through old flash you always find some random image that trips you out for some reason. 

 Rollo Banks aka Mike Malone, this was my take on another early 80's fineline flash image. These are always redrawn entirely and never direct copies so much as just tributes the best I can do them.

Eric Maaske and Classic Tattoo Fullerton

Eric Maaske, if you tattoo and you don't know who he is I probably wouldn't like you. Classic Tattoo is like stepping into a time machine. I worked there after Eric Maaske died which is something I appreciate but I sure wish I could have worked for that dude and seen how he tattooed. If you've ever seen a old Eric tattoo on somebody, it's a trip. Dope color and style that stands the test of time. This is a homage to one of his flash designs.

Traditional tattoos and painting, a hard nut to crack

Traditional is one of those styles that everyone has an idea how they think it should look and there's a lot of different ways you can approach it, but ultimately less is more. To this day I have yet to be really satisfied with anything traditional I have done. I mostly just try to bite Mike Malone.