yeah yeah yeah i know… “you said you were gonna update more often and blah blah blah”… i know what i said! haha… sorry… been busy tattooing and planning all the traveling i have to do this year… got a PA convention coming up… a trip to Montreal for a guest spot… POLAND!!!! for the convention in Krakow… a guest spot with Todd Noble and Lil’ Chico in Maryland… and that’s all before August… that is a LOT! man i am gonna be one jet-lagged giant… so anyway, here are a few snaps from the past week that i thought i would share with you!

this is a skull wearing a spartan warriors helmet that i started on a guys wrist… he had originally a spartan shield on his wrist but it was small and not to his liking so we covered it up with this beast! it will be colored in more than this i just wanted to add some of the blood so it would look killer (no pun intended)… i didn’t get a “before” picture but you’ll notice the shading is darker on the lower cheek part of the shield and that’s where most of the outline of the other shield was… definitely a fun one!

got some shading done on the mummy girl… next time we are adding the pillars behind her and doing the inside of her arm with some hieroglyphics and what not… gonna be pretty awesome!

here we have the symbol of Baphomet and a stone 666 and a spiderweb i did on an old client of mine that found his way back to me… we’re gonna add a few more things and color some things and work on the existing work that i started about 4 years back… should be awesome to see it all finally come together… great guy, too. we definitely have similar interests and a lot to talk about so that makes the time fly by…

here is a bride and groom thigh piece i started a few days ago… as you can see it’s done in the Dia de los Muertos style… it’s the whole top of the thigh and even part of her knee… that knee business wasn’t so good but she sat well through the rest… there’s a rosary kind of flowing itself through the piece as well with a little crucifix that has a skellie on it at the end. you’ll see more when i get better pictures… we’re shading it soon so stay tuned…

hung some more art in the studio…

added some more creepies…

and i made this… it’s a shadowbox arrangement that i title “Wish You Were Here”… it’s an Ouija board set that i got at an antique shop in town that i put in a shadow box… went and bought some crushed red velvet, black lace, black ribbon, silk roses and baby’s breath… some pins, a glue fun, and 6 hours later we have this piece… i am pretty proud of my first crafty installment… i hope you like it!

well i am off to draw for the next week’s shenanigans…

HS,

TURK

yeah… sorry about that… coming home from PA was a clusterfuck due to weather issues and i ended up sitting in Newark, NJ for about 7 hours waiting for a flight… man that was miserable… when i did get home i got some Santana’s since there is no such thing as good mexican food in PA, like, at ALL… after a giant california burrito i went to bed and the next day unpacked all my goodies and had to draw a ton of stuff for the upcoming week… still jetlagged i got all my art done and was ready for the week… my band Crushed On You had a show in Riverside, CA. we played well but i was SOOOOO tired… Anyway enough rambling… here are a ton of pics spanning the last few days of my time in PA all the way to today…

this is a piece of the ghost of a fisherman coming out of a jack-o-lantern that i did on Scott Bramble when i was doing a spot at his shop, Mercury Tattoo… there isn’t really any cool folk-tale or anything like that… Scott just loves jack-o-lanterns and fishing… so he came up with this idea and this is what i gave him… it was a ton of fun and i am glad to be finished with it!

here’s a close-up of the old mans face and the hat with all the lures and what not… fun stuff indeed!

this piece i had a ton of fun with! the head i based on one of my favorite artists, Charles Dana Gibson, and the dress is kind of a mix of 3 or 4 victorian dresses i liked the most during my research… the piece is the whole front of the forearm and there is more to be added… as you can see her heart is ripped out… there’s gonna be a tree behind it that has her heart hanging from a branch and dripping blood on to her parasol… i thought i had a better shot of the whole front so you could see the dress but when i looked at it on my laptop it’s blurry as hell… so this is all you get…

here’s a snap from a lower half sleever i started a while ago… this session we colored in all the water which took all the blue in the world according to my client, hahahaha… it really was a shit ton of blue…

a close-up snap of the sunken ship and its mast with tattered said and what not…

one of the sharks on the water… there will be one session left on this one… i’ll post pics of it as soon as i get it all done…

my cats were super excited when their daddy got home… the orange one is twinkie and suki is already nestled up in my coat… i was super happy to see them and apparently they were super happy to see me too!

one of the drawings i did when i got back… awesome egyptian pin-up/mummy scene…

and the start of the piece… minus the upper background… we’re gonna add that later.

another drawing i did when i got back…

and the resulting tattoo… a one-and-done on the inside of the arm… lot of fun, and a cool guy too… that’s always a plus!

a big sleever drawing i had to do… there’s an existing piece on the upper arm so it’s kind of like a full sleeve but a 3/4 sleeve at the same time? hard to explain… you’ll see more when i work on the piece more…

some of the line-work from that sleeve…

here is the checkered rose i showed a few posts back… which is also a cover-up… but if you can’t see it then i am not gonna tell! hahaha definitely tricky having to do it in checkers like that… but it came out pretty well i think…

here’s a day of the dead piece i drew a while back but didn’t start until just a few days ago… it’s on the right side of the right calf… just line and shade in this run… i think we’ll color it in a few weeks if i remember correctly… definitely a fun one… trying to do all these day of the dead requests different every time is harder than it sounds, hahaha

part of a drawing i was working on… it’s done, but i am linign and shading it on sunday so i won’t show you the whole thing until i start it… just thought you might like a taste…

my view from the chair… got tattooed by my good buddy, Adam Hathorn, the other day… got a sweet tattoo of a zombie nazi with a dagger in it’s head… part of Adam’s 300 CLUB… 300 tattoos for 300 bucks! all individually numbered and unique! if you are interested in getting on you can catch him at my old alma matter, GURU TATTOO or on his own website which is HERE… he’s amazing, the 300 CLUB is amazing… GURU is amazing… it’s a win win win!!

part of a sleeve drawing i did the other day… again, i’ll show more when i start it… which is tomorrow, hahahaha

and finally we have this awesome anti-edge tattoo i did on a friend of mine… this piece is a severed straight edge hand clutching a bottle with banners that read “true til friday”… all the straight edge tattoos usually read “true til death” but we both agree that we are only straight edge until the weekend comes, hahaha… this was a one-and-done tattoo that took about 3 hours… tons of funs!

that’s all i got… i promise not to make it so long between posts… i just had a ton to catch up on art-wise and work and about 50 emails and blah blah blah… keep coming back, and i will keep posting pics…

HS,

turk