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Love!

Here are some pictures that Adion snapped when he was in the studio.  See, I have a serious AND a smiley side!

A favourite again;

Lots of fun jobs this past few days. Here they are;

Jack,  the young photografer was back for a this little piece on his arm.

A portrait of Sally the dog.

Started on Sofies arm, a reflection of time and how to do the most of it and try to live in  the present. Yoou get one chance. This gal had skint thicker than leather! Thanx Sofie for your patience!

The Fool!

The beginning of the butterfly shoulder. Old tribal and swirls. More colour and background!

Bo´s angel, one more sitting! A great guy, he loved rock and seemed to have a good outlook on life.

The optician asked me how I could see before, and I dont know. Cause it´s a new world that has opened up before me, and plus I dont have the pounding headache anymore.

Ok, I was not by any means blind, but let´s say that things are clearer. And I can see the signs when I am driving……thats go0d. And I can watch TV without closing one eye……thats good. And I can also see all haters and full-of-them selfes-people. And thats good, so I can avoid them.

Here they are. (try not too see the bad hair day and the wierd face i am making)

Dennis inner arm, we are continuing on the same theme, black and grey with RED. Such fun work!

And here is his chili skull again, healed up;

Colour in Josefines hand and cherryblossoms, it looks stunning on her.

(the lovely fingertattoo´s not mine. I love that little flie!)

on the calf,

In progress……… a great project, diving into 50´s science fiction! More too come.

Here Is the tree of life, healed up and colorful! Brandon and his fiance Alexandra are the best couple I have ever seen. Tight, in love and adorable. You can SEE the love between them.

Alexandras lower tribal cover-up is also finished. She is always in such pain, but the toughest ever, determened to make it!

Gossip; Rings has been seen and wedding is on next year! i hope we will finish Alexandras back so she can show it off in her w-dress…

Alexandras before;

After;

My motto this year has been “Everything Passes”. It has kept me swimming through a personal hell containing separation, guilt, moving three times in 8 months, sleeping with one eye open, and feeling like a bomb ready too explode. Everything Passes. Indeed. After a year I can say that it does. I finally feel back on track, I just need too worry about giving myself a break sometimes.

Messed it up a little, but the meaning is there;

A lot of good things has also happened too me this year,  the saying above is soo ironic and bittersweet. in a way all things must pass, but all good things, I hope will leave room for more good things.

Positivity, love and inspiration.

Well, I am very impressed I must say! Malin sat like a rock through  this. Turned out cool on her beautiful back. Her sister sat with her, I love hearing sisters babbling away, it reminds me of my own sisters.all three of them!

Joanna, a real cookie started this piece today! I really do love the traditional style, it´s playful and a lot of fun!

What is allude, as they say in litterature. Well, it´s when you use another artists art in any form and interpetrate it your own way. You can do it on purpose or your subconcious does it for you. It´s a form of inpiration, and all I see and experience can pop  up in the work I do. It´s impossible for me too not be inspired by things that I see that are beautiful or has meening.

soooooo , hence my LAUGH when I finished this the other day and all of a sudden, from my mental library this CD-cover of Prince´s  Diamonds & Pearls pops up!!!! Hihihihii!!!!!

Prince´s….

I must add, that Prince is my biggest idol and has been since I was a kid, I had a crush on him in my teens, but then I realized that he is very short, too short for me………so I decided that the music would be enough. But nowdays I´ll take that back…..I have lived long enough too knpw that it´s not a man´s height that makes the man. Prince, I´m all yours!

Oh, and the painting is called Tricky Licky.

In progress;

The lowest butterfly is not mine, it was made a long time ago in Thailand. Fix and add……fix and add! Here it is;

Michaels back after the second sitting. Can´t wait too contiue on this!

Maja´s first tattoo, and what is better than the childrens names?!

Joakims Buddah; more colour next time.

TattooWorldLive was at TattooExpo in Malmö this weekend. It was good fun, lots of people, good friends, bad friends, new friends old friends, and most important;  our wonderful customers of course!

I had a chance too look around and see all the fantastic work of various artists. I´m inspired now!

Me and Alex and Mårten worked in the booth.   Alex made a backpiece on Niklas, two days, 18 hours and won best of show!

On the friday I tattooed Bjarki, he sat as a rock I felt very slow, but we came a bit on the way of finishing the geisha arm.

Saturday I fionished Brandons tree of life, but did not manage too snap a good photo….pictures later!

On sunday I finished Jocke´s pirate pin-up, here she is!

and here we are….

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii its so hard!

Niklas in his spa-robe. Rock`n roll!

Mackan in beer-mood.

Well that sums it all up, it was a good weekend!

….some recent work!

Making progress on Martins grafitti arm! Such fun work, loving every bit of it. And since my machine has been pimped up I am discovering more and more.

Imo´s ankle, such a small ankle!!! We made some matching cherryblossoms, cause she has a similar tattoo on her other ankle. She was in pain, but made it through.

And Sara´s back;

Alexandras tribal got some new life; next time COLOUR

All tattoo´s are special, but this went a little bit further on the special scale. It´s on the back of the arm of a very nice young woman, and the meaning will stay between her and me ; ) Dark emotions and discovering them is an adventure….!

In progress…

big is beautiful! Truly a pleasure to start on Michaels back. More to come soon.

Laura with the jungle background – sorry about the baaaaaaaad photo.

The blog has been down for a few days on and off, but here is some recent jobs!

I will be working at TattooExpo Malmö, 2nd – 4th oktober at Amiralen in Malmö. Come on in and get tattooed and look at fantastic artists and enjoy the atmosphere!

Mias “henna” inspired tattoo. Loving it!

Indian feathers on a very nice woman!

Little traditional butterfly. This lady´s first one.

We made soft piones and the babyname behind the old butterflies, wich i also

touched up a little bit.

Josefine´s sleeve that we “pulled” down to the wrist, Tony Paukku made her sleeve some years ago. We finished it off with amore traditional pione, to match her fingertattoo´s. Next time shading and colour!

Did not manage too get a decent photo of Dennis Mexican skull with chili´s….but here it is, a truly fun job!

Recent jobs!

Alexandra has the smallest feet i have ever seen!

…added text to Jockes rose…. and then made this hot mama the same day.

and then I realized that Sara a cutie earlier this week, had the smallest arm I have ever seen! I love my job!

I moved too my new BIG flat this weekend, and when I woke up this morning i had a STIFF neck, I could barerely drive too work, and I had a posture  like Quasimodo. So I figured it was not a good idéa too tattoo today. I dont think I would have been able too. What to do? Well, it feels horrible too rebook an appointment.

So I am posting some silly drawing, cause I have nothing better too do, resting feeling all stiff.

Started on Johans arm today, and the first woman is Medusa… ice cold loook that turnes you too stone….(underneath a old tiger).

I wanted a hand instead of the snake,  but I guess I have too learn like cool stuff like snakes and skulls and death-things. Johan wanted a snake, and snake he got!

The colours are brighter in real life. A relly fun job!

My version of Lara Croft, next time a litte fog and smoke behind her!

Brandons backpiece…tree of life. LOTS of colour next time!

and started on a cover up of an old tribal sun….a pretty simple idéa will look stunning with all colour and swirls. Nice talking too Sofia aswell.

Ingrid who I made an owl on a few months ago – she has a fascination with Twin peaks – fire walk with me – cute!

We finished the pionees behind the old dragon…

started on an arm I have been looking forward to….the graffiti arm!

continued on Niklas arm…..a geish…gotta sneak my women in there!

and then Wait and Bleed, a nice little piece;

So, we had the opening of the studio, Tattoo World Live this friday! Nice food, wine, people and Bonafide, a crazy-good rock band rocked the house!  i tried too be a rockstar aswell and checked into a hotel, but did´nt trash anything, just went to bed around midninght after looking for the minibar in the room, which they did´nt have (!). So without a “bedtime” whisky I went to bed, and woke up fresh for my skeleton-piece, “social distortion”.

In fact my cusomer was more hangover than me or anyone else I ever seen, but he made it through and this is the result;good on ya, Sammie!

My day was fantastic cause one of my customers came to the studio with flowers, beautiful lilys and a bottle of wine to THANK ME (!) for her tattoo!!! This totallt made my day, and I feel humbled by the fact that she did this for me. Wow, THANK YOU Maria!

Then I met two nice people and made two tattoos, and it was great fun.

I am starting to think that I am getting slower and slower when I work….hmmm I guess its just a feeling, tattooing takes time, but is it because its getting harder and harder….hmmm. Maybe I need faster machines, or a faster brain.

Tomorrow is the big opening of the studio!!!!

Fredrik´s first, and he was calmer than a sea after a storm. im impressed. Here it is;

A “bake in” /cover up of Marias tribal sun!

hmm did not manage to get a good photo….but here she is!

A lot of women lately, but I never get tired of them! Not like men. Here is Cecilias arm, an ongoing project.

My sisters friend from Skövde came down and he got this tattoo with his kids names, and a place for one more….. nice thought, too leave space for something new in your life, whatever it may be. His first tattoo ! He is 2 meters tall so it was a pretty big piece. Big back= big tattoo!

And here I am all sweaty in the studio…. (notice the porno-pink gloves, hihi)

Had to take a photo of the oval in its nice frame aswell….”opiumsmoking pirate woman”

I had too put the oval painting with it´s frame – paintings look so much cooler with a frame! Anyway, it is hanging at my chair in the new studio.

next sitting we will add colour!