whats new?

eh not a whole lot. shops been busy, i've been tire, and the ground has been white!

actually pretty happy about the white, id be getting tired off all the dead tan and brown colors :S

but as thats been happening ive been trying to send photos to photobucket regularly so when its time to make a post ive got at least something to mindlessly put up ;)



been painting a bunch...



Rancor!



hot rod!

i think ive been averaging three at a time? either way feels good to be busy :)



started this as well, check the link to the right "tattoos i do" for more on all that :)



and a little teaser to get you to go over there if you hadnt already clicked ;)



i also went to omaha



to see her :)




we went ice skating :) ill post video eventually :)

update......i guess.

figure i should be posting something. i've been back painting 2 or 3 hours a day again after I got my new awesome itouch and realizing i could just be facetime talking to Sarah while being productive instead of just staring blankly at a constantly refreshed facebook news feed talking to her on the chat.

that being said, i have been taking more video than photos in an attempt to build up some stock so i can start editing videos together :) im way stoked on that.

any how heres some stuff to look at



skull, tattoo ink on water color paper. pretty small-ish, 6x 15?



I hung 5 calendars around my parents phone when my Dad was out of the house and Mom was at work, haha.



finally got to use this reference.



seriously running out of places to put these paintings.



tacos with butch! ok cam was there too



they left with these!



i got this!



stevens stomach family crest tattoo is soooooo close to done.



finally ate at the Irish Pub, this burger was described as being the size of a leprechauns head



did this stuff all in one day



started this, currently working on 3 paintings :)



husker million dollar bill chocolate, with trains plains and automobiles



yumm yumm



reference for andys hawk



and hopefully our final drawing :)

new blog :)

So after deciding that I much prefer not only the ease of updating a 'blog' type web page, but also the way it looks and read I finally started a "tattoo page" for me at tattoosbytimm.blogspot.com :)

There isnt a whole lot on it right now but i will be uploading photos as the week goes on, im looking forward to tweaking it into what i want it to look like and to keeping it updated with all the fun stuff going on at the shop :)

yikes....

So i seem to have forgoten to blog the last two days. I'd say I'm sorry but I'm not. I spent blogging time laying around on the couch with Sarah watching movies instead. time well spent? i think so :) Any how, what happened the last few days?



i started this neato dragon tattoo



ate this awesome ham centered dinner with my family minus jon and his kin



Kris came up with the great idea of pumpkin pie+ whipped cream+ puppy chow. yum! only thing it needs is a little chocolate syrup on top :)



then it was onto turkey day with the whole family!

i was to busy stuffing my face and playing with my super cute niece to bother with more photos ha.



then we headed out to show jon the 46, we decided we may as well shoot some guns with matt while we were there :)



Sarah taking care of business with a little 22 pistol



moving onto something a little bigger!



a ruger gp 100 .357, blued of course ;)



knocking them down :)

Im sure sarah will have more/better photos but thats all ive got :) I had a wonderful day and am entirely grateful for everything I've been blessed with.

go check out Sarahs blog for more, im off to help bake before heading to some midnight shopping and the Husker game tomorrow!

maybe ill take some video to pot on tomorrows blog :)





hopefully this wont feel like a license plate i want to tear in half after the game haha, saw this in a parking lot wednesday

these blogs have sucked

sorry, i feel like i should be putting something more 'together' up for posts this months. I'll try tomorrow but no promises, i can't believe how different this month is from last year this month. Or at least it seems that way... maybe ill go read old blogs to confirm ha.

anyhow...



stopped to get some oil for the honda after stopping to find out that the rear axel perches for the 46' had been welded on last night and found this!

the car has obviously been hit...numerous times, nothing on the front end lines up anymore sheetmetal wise so when i parked a little close to the curb this morning and backed up off it everything shifted and the zip tye that was holding this parking light in place popped and let the light dangle. i used some bailing wire and put it back. eh' its a thousand dollar car that gets 35-55 mpg. im not complaining with the commute ive got.



started on the stencil/drawing for todays tattoo.



noticed this burl wood looking rinse cup mid tattoo....



crummy pic of finished tattoo, been doing a lot of tattoos on the tops of forearms lately. turns out, almost always hard to get a non crap photo.

oh well



finished up the night wrenching on the stock rear end for the 46 removing the radius rods for a guy in california, everything unbolted very easy but the driverside just didnt want to pop lose :( poured some kroil on it and will try to get it tomorrow night i guess.

http://www.vice.com/tattoo-age/freddy-corbin-part-3#ooid=xsZGYwMzozfu1Wmhj-bZozwhYX25__Lf

watched part three of freddy corbin on tattoo age as linked above and called it a night :)

its beginning to look alot like....

People decorating a couple months to early, eeeevery where you goooo.



across the street from the gas station while i fueled up tonight.



thankfully there was this ridiculous camaro with a blown injected bbc, full cage and 13 ish inch wide tires fueling up next to me. It not only made me forget about the christmas lights and that it was this dark at like 5 pm, but it also reminded me why i love living in iowa because that car is totaly street legal haha :)



before all that i worked on Stevens stomach/ torso some more starting to tie the halfs together today.



you can start to see it coming together now as one larger piece. its also starting to be more noticable that this in fact the most ridiculous family crest tattoo I've ever done.



one more sitting and the new stuff aught to be all colored in, then we'll bring the bottom half and fill in the center!



also, got this phone pic of my possibly finished dash that i will possibly have in my hands monday!

and results

welp, this is what happened today.

and thats how things get done....

So as is typical had a pretty chill tuesday. My friend Danny is getting tattooed tomorrow and after not having seen him for a looooong time we hung out for a minute this afternoon and pounded out some details for his tattoo.

so I figured id spend the afternoon working on that and taking photos along the way.



of course i had to fuel up, today i had some texas style chili from the house of Q. it was spicey! and very filling. should of had them put it on a bun its so thick but other then that perfect :)



alright so on the left you see our rough sketch i scribbled while talking about ideas, as well as a little reference for the refined version.



flash forward we have a line drawing!



a quick sharpie trace onto some water color paper for further development. This is going to be a very black heavy tattoo as ive realy been into that lately and as such i need to think about shading and layout a bit more than if i were using color. i can make a dark blue right next toa dark orange and be fine but when its all black... well its all .



and here it is water colored. i dont like it after all :P



i cut it up and grabed the bits i liked and photo copied bits and pieces out of my sketch book and after some re aranging and messing around came up with something i liked more. im still going to do some tweaking in the morning so it includes the apple but i think im going to be much happier with this version. i guess stay tuned tomorrow to find out how i think it turned out.

home for some spaghetti i headed out to the ford for the evening, its about 29 degrees out but i havnt got alot of time for the car right now so any little time i can sneak in is worth taking.



one of tonights quick projects was to cut out the old U bolts that previously held in the rear spring. you can sorta see here how the clearance is to tight to just pull them out with out taking the body off.



a 4 inch grinder with a cut off wheel and the two bolts look like this now



beefy!



warm blooded. all i need is 1000 wts of work lights and a wool hat and im good to go. i can see my breath when i work but im actually pretty comfy out there most nights.



this fender support was project two. its only on the drivers side and i think serves as more of a mud flap to sheild the gas filler neck than to support anything. either way it was in my way when installing the rear spring mounting bracket on that side so it got bent out of the way for the time being. tonight i took the cut off wheel to it to cut it out of the way and get rid of the ugly bent up sections. i got about half of it cut before the grinder was to big to reach the rest so thursday ill hopefully have a minute and use the smaller air powered speedy cutter to get the rest out.

i think that ill get the majority of it out of the way and then start re working it to look nice. guess we'll see how it goes! im sure ill keep you posted ;)