Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Kiyohime


Did this piece as an homage to one of my favorite japanese stories, enjoy.   


   "One day, a handsome visiting priest named Anchin 

fell in love with a beautiful woman named Kiyohime, but 

after a time he overcame his passions and refrained from 

further meetings. Kiyo became furious at the sudden 

change of heart and pursued him in rage. The priest and 

Kiyohime met at the edge of the Hidaka river, where the 

priest asked a boatman to help him to cross the river, 

but told him not to let her cross with his boat. When 

Kiyo saw that Anchin was escaping her, she jumped into 

the river and started to swim after him. While swimming

in the torrent of the Hidaka river, she transformed into a 

large serpent because of her rage. When Anchin saw her 

coming after him in the form of a huge serpent, he ran 

into the temple called Dōjō-ji. He asked the priests of 

Dōjōji for help and they hid him under the bell of temple. 

However, the serpent smelled him hiding inside the bell 

and started to coil around it. It banged the bell loudly 

several times with its tail, then gave a great belch of fire 

that melted the bell, killing the priest."


Via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyohime

Got to do this on a regular. had a blast working on it, but I wont see her for another nine months, seeing as how every time I tattoo her and her husband end up pregnant. Im thinking of using this as a selling point, maybe putting iton my card.

Friday, February 17, 2012



V-day piece. sorry about the glair, another phone pic. 


Random idea a friend and I came up with, which happened to end up tattooed on her arm.


Design I'm working on for my girl.


Tattoo this girl alot, great client, always gives me artistic freedom, and always sits well. Sorry about the glair, phone pic.

Fun cross tattoo, had a blast on it. Pain in the ass to align though. Client set like a trooper.


Copic koi on Arches paper.


Lemmy. Copics on strathmore paper. Its a cell phone pic, so ignore the angle.

Scarlet witch. Copics on strathmore paper.

Copic piece i did of The Pro, Superhero prostitute created by Garth Ennis. Love this book, check it out.