Scottish Tattoo Convention Preparedness Week

The Scottish Tattoo Convention is this weekend and I am getting pretty excited, I have a wee bit of merch this year, I managed to have stickers printed and prints from one of my paintings for sale. The stickers came in yesterday on regular paper sized sheets so I had a fun night of cutting those wee guys out over and over and over. The painting I managed to sort out on Monday, but if I were more on the ball, I might have had a bit less of a frantic week this past week. I had been thinking about doing a painting for the convention since about November, but I only actually started painting it around the 14th of March, I know I am pretty good at procrastination right! But it worked out, I finished my painting and found a printers in Edinburgh to make me prints, so look out convention here I come!

We bit of my progress shots of the painting slowly but surely coming together.

Also a wee bit excited that I sad I would post and look at me here I am posting!

January Recap

Well 2016 is blazing by isn't it? This whole past year has been a bit of a whirlwind, I don't know if it has been the 52 weeks of 6-7 day weeks but I am now really starting to get into my stride with this tattooing business. Starting this month, March, is it already March, I will be taking a few more days off from the part time job and getting a day or two more a month in the studio or just for drawing time. Which might mean more consistency here. So I'm excited about that, and I got to do some amazingly fun tattoos in January and up to this point. 

But we will make the rest of this post about January.

A great friend of mine came over and I got to tattoo her, how crazy is that, I have no idea when we will see each other again, she just moved to Australia as well so it made it all doubly special. And I got to do my first proper over up from Claire who decided to trust me with that, it was a lot of fun. Not to mention a whole bunch of friends who got tatted this month, the ghost, skull, raven, BB8, and Baba Yaga's house are all on friends, and I can't thank them all enough for trusting me to put something on them forever.

Lots of exciting things happening this month so I will get into that more in the coming posts. 

More Tattoo Time

Whoop, I had a busy week last week, I felt like I was tattooing left right and centre! Though I guess it was mostly legs, but it was such a fun week, With Kris on holiday and Dominika and Joe unwell, Saturday I had the whole shop to myself which was fun and unnerving at times, depending when and what type of customers came in. But when Kat came in for her ship we just locked the doors as that was definitely going to be way easier than worrying about anyone coming in. The day before I Did Steven's Ghostbusters tattoo and finally finished off Dixon's smashing blouse we started ages ago! But we've now started another one so hopefully I can get him in next week to finish the pig off as well.

A couple weeks ago now as well Ross who got the pterodactyl (pteranadon) came in to get an old star filled in so I took the opportunity to snap a wee mostly healed photo of it from him as well.

More Work

So Last week I was moving along nicely, I did three tattoos that week. So a big thanks again to Beth, Ross and Stu, without willing friends and friends of friends none of this would be possible. All three of these were great fun, the most challenging I think was Beth's Non Compliant but I am really happy with how it has come out. I had a lot of fun with all three of these.

Tattooing Update

I have been a wee bit of a busy bee, or possibly slow to update, we will call it a mix of both. But I have been doing some tattoos recently so my apprenticeship moves ever forward. Thanks to some of my lovely friends I have been able to make good progress in the past couple weeks and I am now up to my 10th tattoo, so thank you everyone who has helped me so far! I really appreciate it.

Work In Progress

Back to work on the fun stuff again, so these are my 3rd and 4th tattoos, Joe at first wanted me to do his elbow, which was super scary, but Kris said no, as the skin is odd and I wouldn't be ready for it, not to mention, Joe has some extensive elbow skin, so we settled for the ankle-y calf region, which suits me just fine. And Dixon wanted his Critikill he had done some time ago covered with my smashing blouse painting. So they both need finishing, but it has been a lot of fun so far.

And the sketches for the rooster 

Wee Goldfish for Stephen

Gah, I'm behind again I have a bunch of news, but I am going to try to keep this orderly and not make a massive post, so hopefully expect a few posts in the coming week.

 So first things first, I did my second tattoo! Stephen kindly volunteered for it which was quite nerve racking as he has some amazing tattoos, but it was a lot of fun, I especially enjoyed doing the colouring as I didn't do that on the one I did on myself. I am really proud of how it turned out all together though. Hopefully more to come soon!

I am hopefully going to keep adding to this stencil wall and fill it up!

So second one so far, just need to find my rose stencil and pop it up there,

All drawn in the one day as well, were trying to work out something Japanese for Stephen to go with his theme.