A Study in Pen Art

Studies in Pen Art (7.5 MB PDF)

For some reason, I've always loved this booklet by W.E. Dennis. It's been available online for awhile, but never quite accessible enough for me to utilize. So I spent some time with it: cleaned up the scans, adjusted rotations, resized …

Merry Christmas!

From me to you, a lovely rendition of a - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis.

Jack Skellington

This lady loved the Nightmare arm piece I'm working on, and wanted to get a big Jack flesh rip. How cool is that? We were going to add a ton more gore, but she decided against it at the last minute.

This was done with a 7 round liner and an 11 mag.

It's amazing to …

Clifford the big red dog

I did two of these, and this is the second one. My wife and her brother lost their father, Clifford. He always wanted a tattoo of Clifford the big red dog, so it was fitting for me to tattoo them with it upon his death.

I've put off tattooing Ashlee, because I'm a …

An early Christmas gift

I've got something I'd like to give to some of you, and it's lovely. If you're a professional tattoo artist and you use Photoshop, I've compiled a load of stock imagery I use for walk-ins. I'd love to share it with you.

Just e-mail me at dutchpink@gmail.com.

The …

Personal

There has been a death in my family, so I'll return to posting next week.

More photos added to the gallery

It took awhile, but I just finished updating the tattoo gallery.

I tried to write some good commentary. And I posted a couple of links to outlines and a sketch of the underwater tattoo.

Enjoy!

A Chinese dragon

The client found a dragon he liked from the internet. Lately this is happening more often than not. So I took the dragon and kept the shape, but altered the face and legs. You know, a little here and a little there.

It was his first tattoo and he sat like a champ. …

John Dyer Baizley

Here's a large outline I worked on today. I used a 7 round and stretched the heck out of parts of it. It's a beautiful piece done for Kylesa by John Dyer Baizley.

The final product will be fully colored, but we won't work on it for at least a few months. The eyes are …