Today I finished up a sleeve which consisted of covering up tribal, a tiger and a dragon. This was easiest the biggest cover up I have done so it was nice to let the design breathe a little more on the bottom of the arm with the addition of some goldfish and a ranchu.
There are photos of the cover up in progress on the cover up page if you would like to see what was there before.
After thinking about doing some artwork for a new set of business cards, then looking at my dog Henry, then thinking about some artwork for my new business cards I came up with this after a few hours with some acrylic and watercolours.
My Smurf and my Swallow Tattoo have been featured in this months copy of Skin Shots Magazine.
I got to do a couple of nice session pieces this week. The first piece was a continuation into a full sleeve of the massive tribal cover up I completed a little while ago. So it was filled with goldfish.
The other piece was a gamer sleeve , which included Sonic, Mario, Pokemon, Bubble bobble, Frogger and Tetris. This is right up my street tattoo wise. I cant wait to crack on with getting this coloured.
Multi award winning Patrick McFarlane who works across Europe will be doing another guest spot at Northern Soul Tattoo again in August. He will be working 2nd – 5th August 2011 and we are now taking bookings for him. Check out his work, bookings will go fast so get yourself down to the studio and get booked in.
Here is one of his pieces that was done at a previous guest spot at Northern Soul tattoo.
Portrait by Patrick McFarlane
I got to finish this sleeve this week. Really enjoyed working on it as I have always loved Egyptian art since my grandad bought me home an Egyptian leather writing case with hieroglyphics on it when I was little. Cheers to Wayne for sitting like a trooper.
I would just like to say a massive thank you to everyone who came to see us at Liverpool Tattoo Convention last weekend. It was great to see some old friends and meeting some new friends
Here is a selection of photos from it for your viewing pleasure.
Due to the fact that there as nothing better on telly the other night I ended up watching a program on BBC4 about DNA and how they are experimenting with it. This included how they has found the individual gene for developing the eye. So they then got the eye gene from a red eyed mouse and injected it into the embryo of a fruit fly. The outcome was terrifying.
This fruit fly has 8 red eyes all over its body some fly shaped eyes, some mouse eyes. IT COULD SEE OUT OF ALL OF THEM.
So with that in mind I painted this. Its 6″x4″ in acrylic and is available for sale or trade. Enjoy!
We will be working at Liverpool Tattoo Convention next weekend, so the studio will be closed on Saturday 14th May. I will be around the studio for a couple of hours on the Friday but then I will be setting up our booths in the afternoon. We will be open again on the Tuesday as per usual.
If you are coming to the show come and find us and say hi and buy a tshirt or some artwork that will be available.
So I managed to get some time off a couple of weeks ago to go down to Birmingham to get a tattoo from Rachel McCarthy from Modern Body Art, Birmingham. I had a really good day and managed to get a very nice tattoo to go with it. I have always loved this very old tattoo design of Pharaohs Horses and Rachel did me proud with her take on it. If you are in the area get yourself down the studio as its very welcoming and has some top artists working there or check them out at a convention near you.
BY RACHEL MCCARTHY, MODERN BODY ART, BIRMINGHAM
Got to finish this, this week. Really enjoyed doing this one
Worked on a new little painting last night that is acrylic and watercolour 6″ x 4″. It is available for sale or trade. If anyone would like this done as a tattoo I will do it for a good price
So after a few sessions I have managed to finish working on the cover up that contained tribal, a tiger and a dragon. The flowers are healed.
Sharron Caudill, Owner & Tattoo Artist at Keep The Faith Tattoo, Liverpool 