Mid April - Early may 2025 - Tattoos and lots of birds...

 

Hi, welcome to the blog.  Thanks for stopping by!

Email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com for bookings.

I don't tire of making chest pieces like this.  I love these small-but-full sort of chest tattoos.  It feels in keeping with traditional western tattooing, to do a simple, one-session chest-piece.  I think it's perfect, not too big, but big enough to fill the space in an elegant way.

A little snake tattoo from a few years back.

I'm really happy with this Arctic Tern Tattoo that an old friend asked for, Stark and Simple.

This client wanted to add to their back tattoo with something a little more dynamic.

They wanted to make something big and were also happy to have some big open spaces. 

I love the way the composition turned out and the calm and curious energy between the Robin and the Butterfly.  The bumblebee was a last minute addition, but I think it works well. 

This one felt so of-the-moment.  Maple leaf tattoos for everyone!  They just emailed having seen a similar tattoo I made some years back on a friend and wanted to explore the theme, I was happy to oblige.  

Wild Roses

I have had occasion to explore this kind of placement a couple times recently, the other one isn't complete, but I think this is a really nice play on the arch over and under the knee sorts of placements we've seen a lot of these last few years. 

Like I mentioned earlier, Email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com for booking information.

You can find me at my studio, Ritual Winnipeg, Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm.

My love brough home some pussy willows, I love that.

I love any time I get to draw local plants and animals from life.  It's so revealing about the energy of the thing.  This part of the year is just starting, as the flowers bloom, i always get out to draw the wild roses, peonies, lilies and whatever else is blooming in the neighbourhood. 

Coffee... what can be said...

Spring coat weather seems to have come and gone already!

And with the Spring coat, it's off to Garbage Hill for me.  Incoming Blackbird photos...

The homie - Red Winged Blackbird

Not sure about this one?  King bird?

Not sure about this one either, help?

Bald Eagull

And Meanwhile, in the West-End:

I loved seeing the starlings through the winter

And a friend told me about how these are Juncos, and they're a sure sign of Spring.

A lion.

Little Downy Woodpecker.  Woodpeckers are kinda hard to photograph... 

A young raven maybe?

Actually one of my favourite photos I've shot in a while, I love Grackles, that eye....

The scrappiest little squirrel at Garbage hill.

I don't photograph dead stuff too often these days, but this is a Raven I saw...

I'm happy with this pretty pair of photos of this Robin, nothing too special, but crispy in the morning light.

Thanks again for looking, 'till next time.

Late-March, early-April - 2025 - Tattoos, The Studio, The Neighbourhood, and Ecuador

 

Hello, welcome back to the blog, enjoy some new photos of Tattoos, the studio, Around my neighborhood and even a few scanned negatives of my trip to Ecuador in 2006.

I'm always taking new clients and booking tattoos, so don't be shy, Email bram_adey@hotmail.com for tattoos. 

I couldnt be more pleased with how this chickadee tattoo from my book of flash fit in with my frient and apprentice Jade's tattoo of these lovely four pedal'd flowers.  Really shows how a community of tattooers can be working together to make some great compositions.

Another tattoo from my book of flash, Chipmunks, Squirrels, love that stuff.

I haven't made cards in a good long while, but I did, feels good.

A simple pair of plant tattoos, I think we were shooting for Aspen and Basswood when we made these, I could be mistaken, but either way, I think they're a classy pair.

Black capped chickadee tattoo.

This is such a funny, random tattoo, but this pair of bowling pins, I think, turned out real good... 

I am proud to have made this lovely back-piece of a loon swimming and flying some time back.  It's a real trip to be making bigger work like this.

I've been digging into swallowtails and goldenrod lately, sometimes both at the same time.  Please do email me if you're looking for a tattoo of either or both of these images or any other local flora and fauna, that's really where my heart's at, ya know?

Oh, and not to mention this owl design!  It's based on that taxidermy'd snowy owl in the manitoba museum, you know the one, you turn the corner and BAM! there is it, big full wings spread snowy owl leaping out at you.  Anyhow... if you're looking for an owl chest tattoo... I'm just an email away.

Thanks again for looking, my books are always open, and I'm always taking new clients, so don't be shy with your tattoo inquiries.  Email bram_adey@hotmail.com for tattoos. 

Tuesday-Friday you can find me at my studio, Ritual Winnipeg, in the exchange district from 10am-6pm.  Stop by to say hi, check out the space and peruse my extensive flash collection.

Ezra at work...

...doing wild Ezra things!

My Apprentice Myes has been getting busy tattooing, I'm super excited to watch her connect with all her clients.

The Cowboy.

Brit Cornel has been out for the last few weeks, I love their work, definitely check it out if you've neveer seen it. 

A great tattoo of Jeff Buckley by Dasha at House of Saturn... 

And Alyssa is settling in at the studio.  

Thanks to these and all the other great artists who i get to work with every day, thanks so much y'all!  check out the shop instagram to see everyone's work and to see who's guesting etc... 

Spring is in the air, and i'm pretty hyped to get out and do some wildlife photography.  It's funny, i was so inspired to shoot street stuff when the weather was so treacherously cold, but my interest has completely waned... and I only want to shoot tattoos and wildlife... funny how that goes.

Who wants the over-to-lip?

And this thing... Where are my tailslide-flip-out'ers?

Such a cool ledge.

Maybe the last good snow of the year, and it was an absolute doozy!

The Homies are back!

And these last few area some film scans of my time in Ecuador in 2006.

Thanks again for looking, and again, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com for tattoo bookings.