Tattoos by Bram Adey: New tattoos, Our wild Kin, and some street photographs.

Hi, thanks for checking out my blog. If you're new to my work, my name is Bram Adey, and I'm a Winnipeg Tattoo Artist with sixteen years experience. I make traditional black and grey tattoos with clean/solid black linework and smooth black and grey shading. I am a formally trained tattooer who is glad to do most any type of tattoo. In my personal work, I love exploring themes of nature; birds, floral tattoos, snakes and landscapes; and esoterica including fire, water, geometric tattoos, ladders, snakes etc...

You can visit this post from a few months back to see a full tattoo portfolio:

Full Tattoo Portfolio

You can find me at:

Ritual Winnipeg Tattoo Studio

420 - 70 Arthur street, WPG, MB

Tuesday - Friday

11am - 6pm

https://ritualwinnipeg.com/

Esoteric Hand Tattoo - Water Overflowing Dish - Abundance

Esoteric Hand Tattoo - Bowl Containing Fire - Passion

I was so happy to complete this pair of hand tattoos with these esoteric designs from my flash collection. I meant these designs to signify Abundance and Passion, the dish being a symbol for the body, and the water a symbol of bodily needs, and the fire a symbol of intellectual passion. Thanks S for getting this great pair!

That same client also has this backpiece from me, I'm also so proud of this one and grateful for the opportunity.

Cossack Mamay and Chestnut boughs - Back Tattoo

Strawberry tattoo - Ankle

Loon Tattoo - Bicep

Fox Mother and Kit Tattoo - Stomach

Evening Primrose Tattoo - Bicep

Thistle Tattoo - Back of Arm

Wheat Tattoo - Edge of forearm

Stellated Icosahedron and Raspberry - Forearm Tattoo

Wild Raspberry and Ornamental Gears - Forearm Tattoo

Spider Web Elbow Tattoo

Those last three images, the Raspberry and geometry, gears, wild roses and spider web tattoos, are all part of this old client of mine's sleeves. She has been getting tattooed since the late 90's/early 2000's and therefore had a whole bunch of different styles of work and after filling most of the larger areas, we decided to fil the gaps with pine boughs, wild roses, and spider webs. I'm really excited for the opportunity and with the results. Pulling together sleeves after so many years of getting tattooed feels really good.

Cedar and Goose Hand Tattoos

Ginko Tattoo - Chin

Chipmunk Tattoo - Bicep

Raspberry Tattoo - Bicep

Maidenhair Fern Tattoo - Bicep

Upper Arm Tattoos - Fern, Moth, Moss

Upper Arm Tattoos - Fern, Moss, Juniper

Wizard's Beard Moss Tattoo - Upper Arm

Juniper Tattoo - Back of Arm

Finger tattoos - Stick n poke

Horseshoe, Shining sun, Deadly, Twin Peaks

Plus, Setting Sun, Maraige, "Pa"

Finger Tattoos - Stick n Poke

Diamond, Cherish Freedom, wedding ring, Crescent Moon

Frying pan (?), Winter, Home (?), Minus

The Full set, plus tops of hands by my friend and former Apprentice, J.R.Harper at Pacific Rose Tattoo In Vancouver.

Another full set of stick n poke knuckle tattoos. It was a real hand-tattoo heavy week last week! I'm not going to remember all the flowers, we did those some time back, but I'll try!

Jasmine, Rose, Lily, Sunflower

Blue Jay, Falcon, Woodpecker, Robin

Owl Thumb Tattoo - Stick n Poke

Thanks for checking out my tattoos, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com for winnipeg tattoo bookings and inquiries.

In my personal work, I'm starting out on a big body of work focusing on Manitoba flora/fauna/fungi and geology, with a working title of "Our Wild Kin". It is my hope to make this a 48 sheet set, an ambitious project, but not un-doable! My Hope is to make something similar to a natural history book, but have it include a little of everything, not just birds or flowers or trees, but a little of everything, all the major species.

The longer I've worked in the tattoo industry, the more and more every year, I desire to leave behind a legacy of flash that future tattooers might look back to and tattoo from or at least derive inspiration from. So i'd like to make a set that I can tattoo from until I'm old, and maybe train someone up tattooing, and maybe, just maybe, there will be younger tattooers in the future that look at this set as something of historical relevance to them.

Here's a little preview of where I'm at with it. I'm just in the begining stages of discovering what it's going to look/feel like... If there are species/specimens that you'd like to see included in a set like this, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com to let me know.

After J.H. Flock

I'm thinking to make the set in a very classic style, 11x14 sheets with 3-6 designs each from palm to hand-sized. The set is very much designed to be walk-in tattoos, something expansive and accessable enough that anyone from around here, or even a visitor, might be able to choose something deeply meaningful from.

A big part of wanting to endeavor to this project is my love of books of natural history, expecially early to mid/late 20th century books. When I first saw this Animals of Manitoba" book put out by the Manitoba Museum in the 70's, I knew the time had come, I have to make my contribution!