There have been a lot of changes to the shop in the last few months and we really want to share them with everyone!
We've done a lot of construction and the shop is a completely different shop...If you haven't been in since June then you definitely should stop by! You won't believe it... we tore down walls, put new walls up, new floor, tore a ceiling out! And we've got more changes coming soon...The layout is much more open and brighter now.
We decided to take the shop in a new direction and on top of the construction we decided to start having more guest artists. In the past few months we've had Krys Noseworthy from Newfoundland, Canada, Brian from Love Hate Tattoo in Rochester New York, Daniel Aranda from Australia, TJ Hernandez from Cicatrix Tattoo in Salt Lake City, Ryan Gregg from Lodi, California... and we've got Bill Falsetta from Name Brand Tattoo in Ann Arbor, Tony DeRigo from Chronic Tattoo in Cleveland and Tilt from Newlife in Champaign, Illinois.... yee haw!!
We've got 2 new artists at the shop, Eric Jacobsen and Cris Cleen. Two awesome dudes and amazing artists. Stop in and say hi.
We've also got a few conventions coming up... Jason, Jason, Aaron, and Iggy are all going to be tattooing at the San Jose convention Halloween weekend. You should definitely go check it out and get tattooed! The weekend of January 15th is the Austin convention and Holly, Jason Donahue and Aaron will all be tattooing there...giddyup!!
Lastly, we'd like to keep y'all updated on the tattoos we've been working on so we're going to be doing this weekly blog with photos of tattoos done during the week...
Here's a rad leaf Eric did this week. He specializes in realistic tattoos and he drew and tattooed this using leaves she brought in as reference.
This was a fun and awesome late night tattoo Iggy did on me. It's one of a couple official Idle Hand logos and Iggy also sports one on his neck!
This was done by our other new addition to the team, Cris Cleen. If you haven't seen his work you definitely need to check it out!
This was taken with my phone so it's not the best, clearest picture. I'm almost done with this Candyland tattoo on Miss Kate and it's been so much fun! She made me the cutest necklace with a little flower pot on it too that I'm pretty stoked to wear!
I also started this tattoo this week (and took this photo with my phone)...I have a few more hours of work to do on it so you'll be seeing a finished photo in the future... This was originally going to be placed on her back but her shoulder blades distorted the image so much we decided to go with the ribs...Not only is Natasha a really cool chick but she sat like a rock!
Hopefully you enjoy the photos and check back next week for another update!
xoxo
Holly
