Showing posts with label chest tattoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chest tattoo. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Early May - Tattoos, Birds at Garbage Hill, and Narcisse Snake Dens


Hi, welcome to my blog.  Here are some new tattoos, A couple photos around the neighbourhood, and a couple photos from the Narcisse Snake dens.

If you're interested in being tattooed, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com 
I'm always taking new clients and am happy to field any questions you might have about your ideas or my process. 

Blackberries

Chickadee and Wild Roses, this is the rare instance of someone being completely open minded and going for whatever I suggested.  Thanks so much!

A little different approach to a chest, fully asymmetrical with neck/throat.  This is a good example of something that I think is really possible due to working together across a wide span of time.  Desipite it being a vulnerable area to work, I don't think either of us was stressed or unsure, we've known one another for a long time and worked together a lot, and I'm so happy with the result.


Ermine

Jaguar

Painted Turtle

Luna Moth

Rouan Duck

Spider Webs to fill.

A very special kind of piece, the Fox and the Hare, are freshly tattooed by me, and the bouquet centrepiece is by my good friend J.R. Harper at Pacific Rose in Vancouver.

A couple flash paintings from around the studio.

I would love to tattoo this snake and keys design.

You can find me at Ritual, Tuesday-Friday, 10-6pm.  Stop by to check out all the flash and say hi in person.  

Those big summer skies comin'
I bet we'll get a big storm soon with all this heat.

I always get a little nervous when they sign the neighborhood, especially around the elms, this time, my fears were unwarranted.

A special moment, sunset on the opening buds.

A new favourite.  I shot Garbage hill all last year, and hardly even looked at this barbed-wire fence... 

On the way to the Snake Dens, I saw this road-killed Porcupine, I don't really go in for roadkill much, but I'd never seen a porcupine up close, so I stopped to check it out.  It's fur was quite yellow, and long.


The snake dens are a fun challenge, I went on just about the earliest day I thought I could, and it wasn't too busy.  But still, I was battling with folk's shadows a lot, framing something up, then someone would step right into the exposure, or the inverse, frame it up, then they move and the whole composition changes.... 


Stoked on this one.  Getting this whole-body snake is tricky, especially without any distracting stuff around.

My neighbour whose house this tree is in pulled up beside me as I shot this photo and gave me the coldest stare.

That severe face of the Grackle... Love it!

The Female Red-Winged Blackbirds are back, they're much darker than I remember.  Maybe they're darker at the start of the season?


Some Gorgeous Tulips


Thank you so much for checking out the blog.  Please, feel free to share the work with a friend, or pass on my email, I appreciate all referrals!





 

Monday, May 05, 2025

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.