Last Week of September...

Well it is almost the end of September. Things are looking great, better sterilization tools have arrived. Considering a promotion or two, so if you have an idea, mail it to me inkhammer@gmail.com.

This design was as interesting as the person receiving it! She traveled the world, and seen more temples and ancient sites that I can name. Was a pleasure!

It is always good to work with someone who knows what she wants. Well she knows every intricate detail and expands with it as she gets the chance. Very interested to see where evolution is going to take this one.













This is a small peek at the back piece in progress. More colour, more detail and more details added as we go.

After years of marriage and still wanting your husbands name! Someone definitely did something right.

 If you know what the abbreviation is for, you will definitely understand.

For a brief time, I had a brief history of war. Not exactly what they describe in the movies.

Unfortunately this is the one tattoo design that I hope would not get more popular, but it seems lately I am doing it too often.

That's all for the week that I can actually upload, until next week!

Postmasburg Trip Report

Well our Postmasburg trip turned out to be much busier than originally thought. For the weekend we stayed at Duppie & Rynet Du Plessis. I would like to thank them for their hospitality and a place to sleep during the hectic weekend!

I started off with a design that he wanted, and we started just before midnight Friday evening, after about 5 to 6 gruelling hours this is what we ended up with after his 1st session. This is the man with more balls than anyone I previously encountered. He sat for the entire time, with hardly any breaks. His next session we will be getting his blacks blacker, and adding some colour.

 His wife decided on a small and elegant design, something I think fits her quite well.

 One of their friends showed up and wanted a small fairy. Took much longer than expected, but then again, with certain jobs you just have to be that extra bit more patient.

 Her 1st tattoo ever. She was nervous and expected way too much pain. After sitting for a few minutes she got comfy and all continued without a whimper.

 This is the 1st bit of work, for a larger piece that has been done, it took around 3 hours, and so far much more progress was made than what I expected was possible.

 This rugby player had his 1st done, after looking at the design for a while it starts to grow on you.

 Friends sometimes wear matching clothes, hair accessories or a variety of things. What do others have?

Matching tattoos.









If you look closely on the picture on the left, there is a tiger... Really, I promise.

The cover up is in progress and will take another sitting or two to be completed.

I would also like to thank Rynet & Duppie Du plessis for their much needed hospitality over the course of the weekend.

Trip Warmup!

A few warm up for tattoos for getting ready for the Posmasburg trip.

 All this happened just before I left.

A regular that just had her fix for a tattoo.

An official addiction if you look at it.

Husband of the regular for his fix ;)

After initially forgetting to take a picture we expanded a tad before taking a picture for the upload.

After his work on his arm and need of balance this is what happened.

All the way from Springbok for a quick random tattoo.

Possible Postmasburg?

Well it seems I might be off to Postmasburg this weekend, that is if all the arrangements and the planets align. So if you are in the area and interested, let me know.

I will have everything there that is possibly needed. So feel free to bring your custom designs.

September continues...

What a month, I finally received a little package with one new monster of a machine that will be doing it's rounds soon enough, Micky Rogers seems to be living up to it's name. So boring hardware aside, this month has a few things that happened, let''s take a look.

This woman came in for an elaborate back piece, we started throwing a few ideas around after a hour or two this is what we ended up with, still have a lot to cover though. She took it brilliantly done in about 90 minutes.

WIP: Backpiece #1

 This is a guy who had 3 stars done, on the smaller photo you see one star and one... comet maybe? Well the third looked almost like a circle. This is what happened after some free hand doodling.

The Evolution of Stars

 A woman from Cape Town came in, she was diagnosed with Cancer, and after her treatment she seems to be doing much better, well this mother of 2 had her cancer badge with as little as possible black done.

When I asked her how painful was it, she merely replied, " Cancer was worse.".

Kicking Cancer Ass

 Nothing says love like a name, some will say it jinx's a relationship, others say that is what marriage does, well no matter to back to turn back now.

Ode to his Fiancée 

The other side of the relationship, this could have gone much smoother if she came with a volume control. These screams are reserved for torture, and I am pretty sure it was everything but torture.

As much as humanly possible

 This is NORWAY!!! Not really, it is just Norwegian. Though I am not sure whether or not I can share the meaning,..

This is ....

September & Spring is here!

Sunday I started off with this design, I am still not sure if it is a dragon, serpent or demon. In this case it might be all of the above getting to grips with a crucifix. I especially love the wings, the only thing left to do now is the shading and some of the final touches.

PS: The light did not want to work in my favour as you can see.

Crucifix loving Reptile

On Friday, I had a brave and bold sister come in for a hand tattoo, unfortunately I once again had my memory fail on taking a photo. Today the other sister came in, also brave, but not quite as bold. She had a tattoo done on her wrist. Her decision on what she chose clearly made this sister the sadistic one. Yes that is 29 Stars you see there...

29 Stars