so it’s been a while, again… haha. i haven’t updated since Belgium so there is a lot to cover in this post. my girlfriend and i went to Ireland for the holidays and that was amazing! we started in Galway, then Killarney, then we stopped in Cork, and Waterford, and ended in Dublin for a few days and had our new years countdown in an Irish pub with a traditional folk band playing! it was amazing but it was COOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLD!! hahahaha. i ate tons of traditional Irish breakfasts and stews and had plenty of Guinness and Beamish and Murphys and only a little bit of Jameson because i’m not too much for whiskey… shit makes me crazy. it was definitely a bummer coming home after being in such a beautiful country where everyone says hello when they walk past you and there’s trees and waterfalls and castles and what not… but i love me some USA and i missed my kitties and my own bed… so alas, we returned.
coming home, i had a lot of work to jump right back into and was a little bit behind in some art but i put my nose to the grindstone and got it all caught up… drew out a huge backpiece and a bunch of smaller pieces (not small small but like, half sleeves, chest panels, stuff like that) and tattooed a bunch this month!
so here are the photo’s…
airplane food on transatlantic flights is so good! they give you all kinds of goodness!
um…. this is the first graffiti we came across in Ireland… so… yes?
on christmas day in Galway… an amazing cathedral…
mmmmmm…. Irish breakfast…. potatoes, tomatoes, eggs back bacon, sausage, black pudding, toast, and beans…. what i meant to say was, HEAVEN!
a beautiful shot of the streets in Killarney…
Crystal and i on my birthday at a pub in Killarney… shit was awesome! an old guy sang me a song on told me i looked like a lumberjack!! how do you put a bow on that?
bangers and mash!
the Muckross House… so damn beautiful… it was closed inside but just walking the grounds was amazing!
this is the Torc waterfall… it was so amazing and beautiful but it started raining really bad so we couldn’t finish the rest of the hike… but we took the trail from the Muckross house to here and that was amazing all its own…
Blarney Castle… and yes, we kissed the Blarney Stone…
a cool shot of a cathedral in county Cork.
went and visited the Guinness factory… as you can see, it was fantastic…
St. Patricks Cathedral…
and here i am TRASHED on new years eve with two guys (their girlfriends are off camera) from Norway… Guinness all up in my mustache hahaha… these guys were hilarious! if i can find out how to upload the videos we took during these shenanigans i will most certainly share them!! Crystal took this shot and i don’t even remember it… i was 4rnkh… those of you who received texts from me that night already knew that, haha…
the trip was amazing!
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now here’s some tattoos!!!!
zombie stoner jesus!!! hahaha… total hesher! his brains are exposed at the top with the three nails of crucifixion stabbed in there and blood and flies and all kinds of blasphemous goodness…
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here’s a floral cover-up on an upper right shoulder blade… underneath was a tattoo of a bi-plane… came out pretty good.
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this is arabic for INFIDEL… did this on a retired troop who had a few tours over in the middle east and came home with a few bullet holes and lived to talk about it…
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here’s a rad semi-color tattoo i did in one shot on a forearm… a skull as an art supply holder with some paint tubes at the base…
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a cool shot of me lining out a backpiece…
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and here is the backpiece… a samurai splitting into a demon gorilla samurai that stole his scroll. there’s a temple behind it and as you can see there is a pretty wicked cover-up to be done at the bottom… i don’t know why you would cover such a sweet tramp stamp, but oh well…
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here’s an awesome zombie wolf head i did that will be part of an even bigger lower half sleeve… this is just the lines and shading, obviously… color pics and additional pieces are a few weeks out…
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here’s some birds i did on a chest panel… again, just lines and shading for now, but the piece looks pretty awesome so far!!
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here’s the finished product of a rib piece i have been working on for a long time now… the guy lives in SF so sessions on it are few and far between… glad to finally get this one done and looking forward to the next piece!
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a rad tribute piece on my buddy Sam… he got it for his great uncle that always had a drink, loved to golf, had a cadillac, and always slipped him a $10 bill when he would come visit… color to come in a few weeks…
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here are Gabe Ruediger’s shorts that he’ll be wearing during UFC 126… notice the LHBLK logo?!? oh yeah he’s reppin the studio and after the fight he’s getting a sleeve done and many more to come! don’t judge me by what he already has, we couldn’t tattoo him before the fight due to training, so what you see now is NOT my work… any of the fights after will be mine! good luck Gabe!! you can see his website HERE.
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The only other thing worth mentioning right now is that i will be leaving tomorrow morning for Pennsylvania to work with Scott Bramble and Scott Althen at Mercury Tattoo in Glenside! I will be there for a week so hit them up if you are in the area and looking to get some tattoos! not too sure how booked up i am but if you call Mercury they can fill you in on how booked my trip is. hope to see you there!!
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also, i will be in Edinburgh Scotland on the 26th and 27th of March for the Scottish Tattoo Convention 2011! i might be working a few days at a shop there after the show so if i am already booked at the show, i could possibly get you in there… please email me directly about that… not facebook… i don’t check that often enough… email me at Turk@LHBLK.com
here’s Scotland show’s poster…
hope to see you there!!
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stay tuned for another update after my freezing ass trip to PA!
TURK
