Thursday, February 16, 2012
catching up ... an explanation ...
huuuuuuuuhhhh....catching up.... first off... i would like to thank everyone who has been getting tattoos from me ,sending people my way , or planning on getting tattoos from me... you are a huge blessing.... tax season is in full effect (thank god for that)..... and this year has been one of the busiest coupled with t-minus less than 3 months before baby time i have been extremely busy..... my nights are spent at baby classes and or working on getting my house ready for the baby .... lots of hard work and its pretty slow moving.... if i owe you a phone call, package, letter, visit, or email i am sorry.... i havent forgotten about you i have just had my nose to the grind stone non stop ....im not trying to be distant i have just been trying to keep my head above water.... thanks everyone for your patience i am literally busy from the time i wake up until the time i go to sleep... its quite taxing but im excited for the future.....
so a few other things are different this year to.... im only doing walk ins on a first come first serve basis.... with baby on the way and so much other things going on i cant take appointments... im not sure how much i will be out when the baby arrives and its so much easier to just show up and do what i have in front of me than to make plans for the future.... drawings that need to be done i just draw on the spot...ive had a great time only doing walk ins and i have tried my hardest to get everyone tattooed that day that comes in..... thanks everyone for your patience you rule.... heres a few photos as of lately...
sj design
malone design... one session
malone dragon
nick rodin flash
cover up
lettuce
Friday, February 3, 2012
on flash....
it always bums me out when i hear people talk about how they would never get something "off the wall" at a tattoo shop.... for whatever reason it has fallen out of vogue to pick something at a tattoo shop.......this saddens me.... please allow me to offer these arguments....
a. flash in a reputable tattoo shop is designed for tattoos- many images that the general public find on google are not very tattoo worthy.... sure they can be tattooed but what will they look like in 10 years? small spaces will close subtleties will disappear... to many lines will grow together... since it is a tattoo and it is permanent it is wise to plan for the future... an experience tattooer will not put an image on you they know will look bad down the road... unfortunatly many unexperienced tattooers or fly by nighters dont know or care what will become of your tattoo over the span of your life... and unfortunately google does not have a app for weeding out bad tattoo designs... yet anyway...ha
b. good tattoo designs have stood the test of time- images that have been handed down generation to generation have been added to,changed and made better.... bad designs have been weeded out...many designs in my shop have been drawn and redrawn by many generations of tattooers... they have seen what these tattoos look like with years in the skin, altered what they needed to alter and left what works... when you get a traditional tattoo from good flash you have recieved decades of artists experience in refining those images... not only for aesthetics but also to make them last and look good for that much longer....
c. originality- the same people that say " i could never pick something off the wall because some one already has that design " are the same people that bring me in something off google... i hate to break it to those people but if you found it on google i assure you others did to ... whatever you want to get tattooed i assure you someone has it already tattooed on them somewhere...i think its bad to do what others do but i also think its bad to not do what others do....do what YOU want and like... to be burdened by others activities is a life long curse... be your own person make your own desisions ...
lately i have been redrawing some of my favorite tattoo designs.... trying to fill the shop with designs that have stood the test of time ... keeping tradition but also presenting them how i think they should be presented....and i will be a monkeys uncle if i dont think these arent some of the best tattoo designs you will ever find ...my 16 years experience (which is less than most but more than some ) tells me these designs will last and look awesome for a lifetime... i love these new old sheets and i hope you do to...please consider these thoughts when choosing your next tattoo ... and thank you for taking the time to read this ... a picture is worth a thousand words...
xoxo,matt
a. flash in a reputable tattoo shop is designed for tattoos- many images that the general public find on google are not very tattoo worthy.... sure they can be tattooed but what will they look like in 10 years? small spaces will close subtleties will disappear... to many lines will grow together... since it is a tattoo and it is permanent it is wise to plan for the future... an experience tattooer will not put an image on you they know will look bad down the road... unfortunatly many unexperienced tattooers or fly by nighters dont know or care what will become of your tattoo over the span of your life... and unfortunately google does not have a app for weeding out bad tattoo designs... yet anyway...ha
b. good tattoo designs have stood the test of time- images that have been handed down generation to generation have been added to,changed and made better.... bad designs have been weeded out...many designs in my shop have been drawn and redrawn by many generations of tattooers... they have seen what these tattoos look like with years in the skin, altered what they needed to alter and left what works... when you get a traditional tattoo from good flash you have recieved decades of artists experience in refining those images... not only for aesthetics but also to make them last and look good for that much longer....
c. originality- the same people that say " i could never pick something off the wall because some one already has that design " are the same people that bring me in something off google... i hate to break it to those people but if you found it on google i assure you others did to ... whatever you want to get tattooed i assure you someone has it already tattooed on them somewhere...i think its bad to do what others do but i also think its bad to not do what others do....do what YOU want and like... to be burdened by others activities is a life long curse... be your own person make your own desisions ...
lately i have been redrawing some of my favorite tattoo designs.... trying to fill the shop with designs that have stood the test of time ... keeping tradition but also presenting them how i think they should be presented....and i will be a monkeys uncle if i dont think these arent some of the best tattoo designs you will ever find ...my 16 years experience (which is less than most but more than some ) tells me these designs will last and look awesome for a lifetime... i love these new old sheets and i hope you do to...please consider these thoughts when choosing your next tattoo ... and thank you for taking the time to read this ... a picture is worth a thousand words...
xoxo,matt
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