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Sunday, June 9, 2013

More Tommy Montoya Portraits on Kate!

Last year, I met Kate in Penn Station and, what luck! She had some amazing work by acclaimed artist Tommy Montoya (known to many via NY Ink). See those portraits here.

Much to my surprise, I ran into Kate a year later, just last week, on the subway platform in my neighborhood out in Brooklyn. Initially, I couldn't place her - it is easier to remember people when I see them around the same location, and here we were, a year and a borough apart!

Nonetheless, she was generous yet again, and shared her two latest Tommy Montoya portraits of Marlon Brando (top) and Frank Sinatra (bottom) from the 1955 film Guys and Dolls:

I'm guessing this was the source photograph from which Montoya worked:

It's always amazing to see work from a great artist like Montoya, and I thank Kate for once again sharing her tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

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Saturday, June 8, 2013

New Tattoos by Matt Decker and a Custom Bike Helmut!

Matt Decker painted a custom helmut for the release of the Manifesto / Oaklandish bike collaboration.

With warm weather in full swing the shop has been filling up and Matt Decker has a few new pieces to show off.

Custom Bike Helmut, Painted by Matt Decker

Story Book Half Sleeve, Multi View Tattoo by Matt Decker

Storybook Half Sleeve, Multi View Tattoo by Matt Decker

Paisley side piece Tattoo by Matt Decker

Snake Thigh Piece, Tattoo by Matt Decker

Spine Script Piece, Tattoo by Matt Decker

Tattoo by Matt Decker

Outline done and color soon to follow

Tattoo by Matt Decker

Tattoo By Matt Decker

A Fat Finch, Tattoo by Matt Decker

Tattoo by Matt Decker

Ganesh, Tattoo by Matt Decker

Tattoo by Matt Decker

Matt Decker Tattooing his Father-in-Law

16x20 Acrylic on board.

16x20 Acrylic on board. Yep. This one is for sale.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Nebula

Newest abstract. I was going for a nebulas look in this one. 16x20 on Illustration board.

Tony S

Amy Honors Her Grandmother with a Brandon Maldonado Design (via Zac Brown)

Last month, Tattoosday reader Amy was the lucky winner in our Brooklyn Tattoo t-shirt giveaway.

We struck up a transcontinental conversation, and she offered to share some of her work with us, in what we call a little "tattoorism."

Let's take a look:

She credited the work to Tony Carey at Hold Fast Tattoo in Prescott, Arizona.

Amy explained, "it's based on the original artwork of Brandon Maldonado's "Our Lady of Merciful Fate" which was featured on the Zac Brown Band's album Uncaged."

via brandonmaldonado.com

She added, "I was looking for something to honor my grandmother and I had been wanting a day of the dead tattoo ... when I saw this album cover I fell in love with Brandon's art."

Thanks to Amy for being a top-notch Tattoosday reader and generously sharing her ink with us here on the site!

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Black Cat, Original art for sale.

This 20x30 painting is for sale. This is not a print. It is ORIGINAL art.

A Trio of Roses on Anna, in Memory of Amada, by Nikko Hurtado

The Monday after the New York City Tattoo convention last month, I was a bit sad, because I knew that finding quality tattoo work like that which I saw at Roseland Ballroom was going to be a lot more challenging.

I was mulling this over while standing outside of my local laundromat in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, when I noticed a woman in front of Starbucks, across the street. She had an armful of black-and-gray ink, so I wandered over to introduce myself, and wow, was I in for a treat.

The woman's name was Anna, and she had lived in Los Angeles, where she had been tattooed by the amazingly talented Nikko Hurtado. In addition to some portraits, he had also inked these roses on her upper arm:

Amada, which means dearly loved, was Anna's grandmother, who loved roses, and who passed away around the time that she got the tattoo. There are three of the flowers, because that is Anna's lucky number.

As mentioned above, these were done by Nikko Hurtado, who works out of Black Anchor Collective in Hesperia, California. Just look at this detail in the work:

Thanks to Anna for sharing these lovely roses with us here on Tattoosday!