Monday, July 19, 2010

Couple of little bits

Last week Dean, who had the realistic looking angel squaring off with a devil decided he wanted to extend the scene up his arm so had a good session on that, got the main bits of line work down plus managed to shade in a bit of this guy...


Looking forward to getting the rest of it finished off, got another angel and maybe another devil to go yet.

On Saturday I had My friend Tom and his lovely new wife Dani in to get matching wedding rings, so managed to lay down a nice traditional design for them and hear about the wonders of married life.


"I know alot of fancy dancers,

people who can glide you on a floor.
They move so smooth but have no answers."

- Cat Stevens, Hard Headed Woman

A couple rolls of black and white film came back from the shop. One roll was accidentally shot twice. The first exposures were taken around the tattoo shop, riding bikes in the park, of still lives around the house etc... The second layer of exposures, I was really trying hard to shoot good photos of Brothers playing at The Rocker. I'm stoked on what came out.


Shop reunion.


Dexter's first day riding without training wheels!


Brothers setting up.


Jimbo and Elliot.


Jimbo and D'Man, full-shred.



Definitely some of my favourite people. Drex looks Stee in this one.


This is the kind of image i would normally hold onto forever and only show my own prints, because it is SO art. The landscape is a photo of a sleve that Iko is working on, the lamp is like a sun sitting on a ghostly world, the crescent of a rising moon drifting there. The couple sitting in the middle.... man... art...


One mind.




The cover of Jimbo's biography.


They played heavy, their control over a space like an adaptive thing. Brothers, you guys are killing it, really doing something great.



Me tattooing shot by Iko. This is like hella-lo-fi meets digi-smoothness. The client has a D9 tripoded taking time lapse video while we've got a beat to hell FM3 with 3200 and a fifty on guessed settings.


Stoked on this one.


"Iko Drawing" is like the new "Oatmeal" photo on Wreck Blog.


Avery, almost walking.


Frame one.


The grinch, tattooed by me.


Stepped out, in the pouring rain.


Ulmus americana.



Poppies.


Monday, July 12, 2010

I don't wan't to live in no jailhouse.

*ART ADVERTISEMENT


* I finished my show at the Black Sheep! The work will be up until late-August (breakfast and lunch hours) at 540 Ellice avenue. Please stop by for some healthy grubbin' and scope my art, tell your wealthy friends.

The work includes:

- 15(ish) new illustrations, pen and ink on paper, small to medium sized stuff
- 2 bigger pieces, ink on paper and graphite on paper
- Show catalogs, xerox edition of 25, sewn at the spine.

The catalogs are ten dollars a piece, and the work varies in price from fifty to three hundred dollars.

Got back a couple rolls from the wedding, and around the shop.


Shalynn in the evening.


Saturday morning coffee with Mom and Steve... it's the best.


Bill Acheson, helping set up the altar that Shal and I were married upon a couple weeks ago!




The bonfire at the wedding was one of the amazing parts.


Yeah!


*Then, back to the shop!


*TATTOO ADVERTISEMENT



CORNER TATTOO
563 Portage ave.

775 - 6582

Monday: Drop-in consultations and touch-ups by Bram and Iko; piercings by Lunchbox.

Tuesday - Saturday: Tattoos by Bram and Iko; piercings by Lunchbox.


This is Corner Tattoo, where I spend my days.


Lunchbox, she LOVES to pierce people. She is nice, and would enjoy piercing you.


Iko paintin'.


*Me drawin'.

*Photo by Iko.



Shalynn made this pretty little pizza.


Brothers at The Rocker.

Quick update

Did a bit more work on Jamie's arm, really happy with the way it's turning out so just posting a couple newer pics.