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Octopus Days

We had a nice time in Derby with our friends at Octopus Tattoo. I tattooed 3/4 of the Horton family so many thanks to you all for keeping me busy and out of trouble. First up is a shot of Daisy’s feet.

Then it was Mei-Lin getting a gypsy head.

 

The next morning Paul was in getting a pin-up.

Then on the Monday Daisy ‘The Brave” was in again getting her arm done with a selection of stuff.

Later in the week I had Sam come all the way from Aberdeen – the poor lad was pretty wiped out as he’d just come off night shift on the rigs offshore then travelled straight down to finish his sleeve. Well done mate and thank you.

And for another two days I had Izzy in – yet another trooper I can tell you. I loved doing these pieces as I feel they are representative of my own style.

 

 

Rain City

Well we had a great time while working in Rain City, Manchester. I did some fun tattoos and Kay did a Vintage Styling workshop for the Lindy Hop group.

The whole crew in this new studio were fantastic and very welcoming. The work coming out of here is also fantastic and if you are nearby (or even your not) it’s well worth seeking them out for a tattoo.

Thanks so much to all of you folks at Rain City and especially to Gre for your fantastic host skills and ,as ever, great company. Oh and thanks to Forbes for altering my laces and Kays soles……

I took it rather easy but here are a  few of the pieces I did there:

Demon Archer

We had a hard graft to cover over a load of old stuff on Oscar here – it worked pretty well and he’s as happy as can be. Well done mate.

I’ll Give You

A Celtic cross and you can do what you like with it said Bruce. This is what I did. Thanks for all the gig adventures over the last few years my friend.

Vulture Carrion King

Dots and black and grey…..

 

 

Dot Dot Dot

Sam had his leg finished – thanks Sam

Koi Waves Hannya Waves

We extended Adams Koi sleeve all the way down.

Sealife See Life

Jon came down and had me do this crustacean  on him we decided a scallop should also be added. I really had fun doing this. Thanks to Jon and Stu for the bottle o’rum too!

Phoenix and Hannya

Alex had an asian inspired phoenix with a modern Hannya on his leg sleeve. I don’t think he liked having his rhino skin like knee tattooed much!

Hope Skull and Anchor

I got in to small details on these….

Annoyingly there is still a bit of stencil left on the hat band…..grr!