and fun!! This summer has been great!! SO much going on...but having the time to get away for a few days was priceless. Hoping to do it again in October!! Made my reservations for Morimoto's for my birthday!!! SOOOO looking forward to that, I may pee a lil when we're served.
My Shige print arrived and is proudly displayed in the studio. I was so thrilled that it came on fabric!! It's BEAUTIFUL!!!! I never imagined it would have been printed on fabric, what an amazing idea. If I knew how to sew I would buy a couple more and make myself a pair of pants.
I've been sanding and staining a skate board deck, using a dark walnut stain, it's coming out really well, I'm stoked to put on my design. Hopefully by this weekend it'll be dry and I can start drawing. I want to order a few more decks to do a series of vaginal paintings. Yeah I know I'm odd.
A couple Monday's ago went to visit Anya and we worked more on my leg, maybe one or two more session and it'll be finished. Then it's onto my other concepts for my other leg. In a couple weeks I start her belly dancer!!! We're doing that on her upper thigh, I may have to re size it, she's such a lil thing I may have drawn it larger than the area I have, oh well we'll see. I love being able to get work from an artist a really respect. She doesn't have any of that Kat Von "duck face" wanna-be attitude, which is so refreshing right now in the industry. It seems like every artist I come across wants to be a rock star and not an artist. They're more focused on themselves and not their clients, which is blowing up in their faces! I get new clients every day who tell me they're sick of those "ego emo artsy" types. Clients are real people, and they're looking for real people to do their work not the drama they see on TV.
Here's a beautiful boy who came to me from all the way in Montana, we had an all day 7.5 hour session. What a lot of work for both of us, we were exhausted by the end of it all. He hitched hiked from the Harrisburg International Airport, now that's determinatin!! He's going to be sending me some healed pictures soon.I have been doing a ton of Koi pieces this summer, I'm going to change my name to "The Koi Lady" LMAO I love doing them, so I'm not complaining at all, it's just funny that as it stands right now I'm working on 6 different Koi pieces. Wacky! It must be out in the universe that it's the summer of Koi.
I'm also working on a lot of Hannya, in fact I just got a request for a Hannya and Koi leg sleeve. :D
Well my peeps, loved ones and interested parties, I gotta set up for my day, working on a pre-rennensance portrait style tattoo of baby Jesus and his momma half sleeve. Then later tonight starting a bio-mech man!!
PEACE, LOVE, & MOTHER FUCKIN' TATTOOS!!!!!
