trying not to fall behind..

Even though im happy to be not posting everyday anymore, i still need to try and post at least once a week. Hopefully in the near future the house will be recieving some long over due high speed internet and wireless router. then i can put together nice posts from home on my days off :)

but until then this is what ya get i suppse :)



this last saturday was my first offical 'snow day' working 50 ish miles from my home, and more or less being my own boss being able to call 'snow day' is a definit perk.

the weather man said 'maybe some flurries' that translated into roughly 10 inches of snow and 30 plus mph winds. it was outstanding! ive seen alot of snow, for example last xmas when it snowed nearly 27 inches in under two days, but ive never seen it drift like this.

down town had drifts five feet tall blocking entire side streets off. it was awesome, i wish i had a snow mobile haha.



so what to do with an off day? my mom also ended up with the day off so we headed to the grocery store for baking supplies and of course fried chicken supplies.




charles was there stocking his meat dept. later on he came by in a 4x4 truck and we drove around town threw all the snow. it was so bad that trying to move it before it ended was pointless. the city plowed 4 blocks of one street. stoped to look back and it looked like they hadnt even done it! needless to say it was a challenge even finding the road! we crossed some areas that had 3 feet of snow on the road!



any how, when we got all we needed we headed back to the house and this is how much snow had accumulated on the hood of my car in the 25 minutes we were inside!



once home EYE didnt have any idea were to start!



my dad said " EYE might have an idea..."



mom replied "EYE know! banana bread!



i started in on mixing it all up. im used to cooking not baking so all the measureing was kinda weird to me but alas i forged forward.



minced up some walnuts and decided to actualy make muffins, banana nut muffins. sooo tasty :)



then onto these sorta sugar cookies. they turned out nice and soft not all crunchy, and we put a ton of orange rind into them so they taste like citrus/sugar cookies. so so good :)



had to make peanut butter, chocolate star cookies. my personal favorite winter time treat :)



ohhhh yeeeaah :)

any how we actualy made another couple dozen cookies that are a craisen/ orange cookie. but they needed to sit in the fridge for 3 hours before segmenting them out and baking so i spaced out on taking a pic of them. sorry :P



of course a day kicking around the house my dad found about 30 more 'lost' match box and hot wheels cars. thinking its time to move the track we set up previously to a bigger/warmer spot of the house and see how these new ones run the circut.



and heres a sneak peak of two 3/4 sleeves im working on. im working on roughly 4-6 big tattoos that id realy like to show off, but instead of my habit of tons of progress photos im attempting to wait until they are done and finished to show. but i promise theyll be workth the wait... hopefully lol.

well shoot.

got all ready for my big appointment for the day and got stood up :(



oh well, guess ill take the time and make a post of portland stuff im excited to show/do with sarah in march :)

in no particular order:

trains :) yeah i know, public transportation sooo exciting right? well i like trains so yes. so exciting!




the farmers market, ive heard about it and i love them in general. but ive yet to visit portlands.



the victory bar, full of super tastey quasi fancy food



voodoo donuts and all the other cool stuff down town



the speak easy, kinda seedy in a good way and tastey turkey sandwiches



the sling shot lounge, not all that exciting but i hear the burgers are good and its preety cool to see all the tattoo related photos up on the wall at such a large scale



powell books, im going to spend sooo much cash.... if i can save it up. haha also no photo but def hitting up counter media as well



i will uphold this idea



ground kontrol! wear i will try my luck at being better at awesome vintage video games.



food trucks! i may spend even more money there haha



probably wont ride it or stop to see it, but this gondala type thing goes from the parking ramp to the hospital. guess they ran out of parking room and thought this was a good way to go.



random suuuuuuuper wide portland pix, sorry for that







i honestly have no idea what this is, but i see it in photos all the time and it seems like something i need to have seen at least once?



and the giant rose test gardens, this ones a maybe. ive never been there let alone in march. but im betting there wont be anything bloming there. this is always why ive left out the japanese and chineses gardens that i have also never seen the inside of.



another never been, the coast!



we probably wont do a bunch of those, but it'd be cool if we did. a bunch of them are pretty close to each other so i guess we'll see what our $ situation and my work schedule while im there looks like. either way it should be loads of fun!

evidently 14 days makes a habit....

or so im told.

browsing http://www.rebel8.com/blog/ before heading home for the night.

were i stole all these photos from. lol.

in japan there is a shortage of dog leashes and just to much ice cream. gotta do what you gota do i suppose.



not realy a bike nerd or anything but im definatly digging this one. could stand to have some racks for my junk on it, but cool enough with out. shoot id be happy just to hang it on my wall, haha. some guys in portland put this one together for mike giant.



and speaking of the giant, here is a studio shot of him. im a nerd about peoples studios/ work spaces so i figured id post it :)



see ya later im headed home :)

ok, ok, its true

im food powered. its a little bit of math but if you can hang with me ill try to explane.

1. get some good referance



2. add a smoked pulled pork sandwich the size of your head, and a side of red potato salad.



3. result, a first rough draft line drawing!



4. reward yourself with some crab wontons with blackberry sauce!



repeat and watch the progress before your eyes!

And so it begins...

And in 1,2,3 I go from barely dust to just barely 4 inches!

Almost December

So many stinkin blogs. Im looking forward to posting once a week not once a day.
Watched jurasic park, the walking dead, Sherlock Holmes and now 'dragon wars'.

Other the. That just sat around drawing and eatin turkey sandwiches all day. Lol
I'd like another day off but my buddie driving up tomorrow has a hard time getting any other day off so I guess I'll be at the shop tomorrow for a few hours to start his dr teeth tattoo.

Other then that just thinking about saving up a fund for my next trip to Powell books haha.

But there's only so many hours in the day.

So much to do, not enough brain to do it.

One of the down sides of putting so much thought and time into my tattoos is trying to find the time and brain to do it.

Figuring out your own individual work flow helps a lot in keeping the work load manageable. If I had to start a sleeve everyday I'd probably have a melt down.

Giving myself time between projects keeps it manageable, and with color studies and all the prep you don't really need to think about it past the first sitting making it a lot less stessing to tattoo. You can just put your head down a d work, focusing just on technique alone. It's a whole lot of work but in the end it makes things easier and your end result better.

I can see why some people work in one set style and genre. Though for me I think it'd feel repetitive I can see the advantages.

Right now I'm currently working on prep work for the following:
A Japanese 3/4 sleeve of a snake and flowers
A bio mech full sleeve
A eroupean/ sculpture/ Victorian referenced full sleeve
A dr. Teeth and the electric mayhem half sleeve
A good/ evil /zombie bible referenced half sleeve
A fancy elaborate lettering half a forearm

And that's just stuff I'm trying to conquer right now. That's easily 4-5 totally different styles or influences to draw pieces I love from.

My brain just may melt

Sleepy sleepy

So tired.
This is some of my drawings for work from the last 2 weeks. Some are pieces in progress some are waiting to be started. All of them drained me. I put a lot of thought into my tattoos and I still thunk it's not enough.

A jackal? It's a jackal! A jackal?!

This is the only picture I took all day!

Had a wonderful thanksgiving. I'm super thankful for my families health, the people that I've been lucky enough to have in my life, and the opportunities afforded to me.

I'm sure Sarahs blog will have more photos and cover the gaps in the day that my naps covered, you can find her blog on the side bar as 'sarah baker doing crafty things' if I recall correctly.

She and my mom made some amazing pumpkin cinnamon rolls from tashas page, also on the side bar I think labeled 'flour mayhem'

So. Dang. Good.

Other then that just a chill day with Sarah, my parents, my sister & her bf, soooo much food and a roaring fire.

All this tasty food made me wish Ian could be here to enjoy it. I thought about leaving some at his headstone but between him loving the earth & prolly wouldn't want even a napkin floating around and the thought that he wouldn't want any of that love filled food to go to 'waist'  I decided to just keep him in mind/ heart instead.

I had a pretty negative energy filled week and I really need to pull myself back on track. It's so easy to Lise focus and let the non sense cloud your thoughts.

Any how, I'm off to more family, food & fire.

Be excellent to one another ;)

Pre turkey day :)

I didn't even have to use my AK, today was a good day :)







BBQ, star treck, my girl, good times :)

Almost turkey day :)

The heat works again
The Internet does not
Sarah is here :)

Internet famous!

Went and saw some friends in Lincoln today, I'm super exhausted now after 400 miles of driving today.

I saw bea, bob, breen, Casey, matt and raina. That's bob above becoming Internet famous while eating a burrito. You can see me devouring mine zombie like over on bea/zombea's tumblr over on the side bar.

Time for bed!

This music award show is aw.... Wait for it

Ful! Awful. Good god no wonder I don't listen to the radio. This shits awful, and to top it 90% of the 'performers' are dancing around out of breath to a shitty recording of there song. Ugh fail