Summer 2021

Here’s a big dump of recent tattoos.  Blogger doesn’t care much to upload the photos in order, so it’ll bop around a bit…

Filling in some spaces on someone who’s determined!

This is the first tattoo we did on this arm that you’ll see more of as this post goes on, we’re nearly done the arm by now.  

You’ll see a bunch of photos of this suit we’ve been working on for the last six years or so.  Some snakes for the collar.  The clouds and geometry are a cover up of some script.  

DND inspiration for an old client.  Mean looking!

On my sister!

Part of a pair of shoulder pieces.    

A spontaneous chest piece for someone I’ve been tattooing right from day one.  

This is my favourite geometric tattoo I’ve ever done for sure.  A water inspired Cairotype pattern for a great client.

This one was about seven years old when I got this photo the other day, I was so excited about this one when I first did it, and I still am, I’m happy with this one.

Dune. 

Willow boughs.  I really like this theme

Here’s a close-up of my sister’s Mandala, probably the tightest linework I’ve ever put on anyone.

One of the sides of Gage’s bodysuit, he did this one and the other each in one day, three weeks apart… Legend.

The sleeve cuff for Gage’s right arm. 

The Cap of that right sleeve.  

Some years back, I started painting flash based on life drawings and memory, rather than from photographs.  It was a huge turning point in my career.  All of a sudden people were actually asking to have the flash tattooed on them, after many years of putting out a few sheets of designs a year and almost never tattooing them…. The wild rose was one of the first designs I studied and painted in that way, and it has become a cornerstone of my visual language.

When people ask me what my favourite thing is to tattoo, I always answer like this:  

Images that are ambiguous, and nostalgic.  Things that make you feel some type of way, without having a set meaning.  A tattoo’s ability to be interpreted many ways, and to have it’s meaning change throughout one’s life is a valuable one.

The healed outer part of this Nautical sleeve.

The Whole of Gage’s front.  Doing the storm over a mountain range is something I’d been wanting to do for some time, and having a client who was down to do it is amazing!

The other side of the Cairotype geometric pattern you saw earlier.

This little design is definitely in my best-of category, I’ve tattooed variations of it quite a few times.  THis one is on an old skater homie of mine.  

Another geometric project I’m really happy with, we’ve still got some more work to do on it, but it’s coming along.

This Nautilus is the inner arm of that nautical sleeve.

The old Neck!

 Thanks for checking out my work.  If you’d like to be tattooed, you can find me at Main Street Tattoo Collective in Winnipeg.  Email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com for info.