Bram AdeyTattoos

Hi, welcome back to the blog. I hope the New Year feels as good to you as it does for me. Things still feel hard, especially with tattooing being slow, and having the studio and all my coworkers to care for, but this new year I feel a sense of calm about the state of things, and I'm excited to be in a moment of focus.

As always, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com for tattoo bookings.

This client and I have been working together for ten years or more, and so when they asked for a set of knucles a year or two ago, it was a no-brainer. "kindness" knuckle tattoos for a wonderful old client.

Red Squirrel

Great Grey Owl

These two tattoos, the Great Grey and the Red Squirrel, were both chosen from my books of flash by a new client of mine. If you'd like to see all my available designs, look back in this blog's history for a post called "Flash Portfolio - Winter 2024 - 25" to see a lot of what is currently available.

Another from my flash designs, A horseshoe and wild clover.

This client is very near to having two full sleeves after ten years of consistent tattooing. She has come in a couple times a year or so, and I'm so happy and proud of the tattoos we've made together.

Very proud to have made this beautiful dagger and laurel-bough chest tattoo. Chests are such an honour and responsability to tattoo. You only get one.

We made this Apple a while back. The Laurel-bough, Dagger and Apple all have that great esoteric, heavy feel to them while still feeling open-ended, allusory rather than explicit.

A super-powered one!

A cute little whale piece for a mum in my community.

When bookings really slowed down, It was really hard mentally at first, and I shelved these paintings I had started for a while. But the last couple weeks I've been back on my routine and it feels nice to see the paintings come-to-being.

In addition to pre-made flash designs, I do lots of custom work, and rarely turn an idea down, so don't be shy, drop me a line!

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One thing that has been a positive about tattooing slowing down a bit is that I've had to take a bit of time as the owner of Ritual Winnipeg (tattoo studio) to begin to develop a bit of a visual identity for the studio distinct of my own art/tattoo identity. My breakthrough: colour! All these colour photos are from around the studio these last couple weeks.

This is Ezra, working on a beautiful floral forearm.

@doxthrasher

They love geese!

Behold: My Stuff

I was hopeful that getting my apprentice Myes started on fake skin would be a smart thing to do, but as might be expected, it's usefulness is very limited... @ladymyes

Ezra's mind!

Myse's colours

@tammykimtattoo

@ladymyes

@ferdelanceee

@alyssamayart

@bramadey

I own and work at Ritual Winnipeg, 420-70 Arthur street in Winipeg, Manitoba. We are open Monday-Friday, 10-5. Stop by if you'd like to check out the studio and say hi (I'm in Tuesday-Friday).

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I think a big part of feeling so good right now has to do with reaching a nice focus-point in the work I'm doing and how to present it, this has always been important to me, whether it was zine, blog, or instagram.

I realized that this new digital camera i've been using is a synthesis between the point and shoot digital i used to blog with, and my film camera I would make zines with.

When I was first blogging in the mid-aughts, every post would have a photo of a piece of toast or a bowl of oats. These days, this is my absolute favourite break-fast, toast with nut butter and banana.