This past weekend was so much fun! I took the crew down to
Tattoolapalooza in San Diego. I
started Friday off with a bang by tattooing a Bride of Frankenstein on
Scott's roommate. I had fun with this one and took the liberty of
adding some blood and spider webs in the hair. Halloween day was
great because I got to tattoo one of my favorite airbrush artists
Cory
Saint Clair. Cory sat for several hours as I meticulously
tattooed
a japanese hannya mask on his hand. All of his pain was well worth it
because I won 2nd place trophies for best hand and best small color
tattoo.
During the
tattooing, the E
nigma and Serena Rose performed a freak show for all to
see. Enigma turned out to be a really interesting and cool guy. In
between tattoos I got to wander around in my Popeye outfit and
network with many of the artists and check out their booths.
World
renowned tattoo machine builder, Dan Dringenberg showed up with an array
of beautiful tattoo machines. Man is his scroll filigree carving
getting good! Catfish Carl and Tommy Gun were on one side of us and
the guys from
Rat A Tatt Tatt Tattoo studio (Fullerton, Ca) were on the other.
When
Sunday rolled around both of my helpers/artists were no where to be
found. Michelle was getting her commemorative Jack O' Lantern tattoo
put on her ankle by none other than one of
Rat a Tatt Tatt's bad
ass artists Rob. Good Job man! As for Scott, he was off getting his
work photographed and showing off his incredible new saw-blade tattoo done by
Nathan Kostchecko. I'm coming to see you soon Nathan and congratulations on the win!
And
as for me, well I spent the night before trying to find a good picture
of Animal Chin from the Bones Brigade skate board movies to do on a
walk in customer Brent's inner arm. This was an extremely
challenging piece for me to do because my reference picture was so
small. Either way, I was excited because I got to use the new rotary
steampunk style tattoo machine I purchased from master rotary machine
builder and artist,
Ugly Bill. I think the piece came out so
great I had to give that machine another whirl and do a Popeye Jack O'
Lantern commemorative tattoo on myself. Yes... It really hurt!
All
in all we had an amazing weekend! Me and Michelle even stayed a few
extra days and went to Sea World to top it all off. I want to
personally thank the promoters Frank LaNatra and Mickey and all who helped make this an enjoyable time. See you guys in Florida!
Make sure you check out all of these artists work and look for us on the road this coming new year! Remember... Make sure to check back often to see when my new site will be up. It will be totally dedicated to Tattooing and all things related.
Jason Dunn
Ugly Bill is my artist, and i have to say his new rotary machines are awesome. i heal in what seems like half the time and besides the discomfort of getting the damn tattoo, the experience overall has gotten much better. I hope you really like it, i'm sure your clients will! I know this sounds a bit "late night infomercial" but, honestly, much better experiences with getting work done.
Posted by: Jorge | November 06, 2009 at 03:31 PM