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.

February 2025 - Tattoos old and new, and some studio shots.

 

Hi, Welcome to my blog.  If you're new here, my name is Bram, and I'm a tattooer based in Winnipeg, MB, Canada.  I specialize in Traditional black and grey tattoos.  You can find me at my studio, Ritual Winnipeg, 420 - 70 Arthur Street, Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm.

Here are some tattoos of mine I made or saw across the last couple weeks:

Healed swallow and wild rose tattoos, part of a large collection of work by me across the last six years or so.

Big custom chest tattoo of deer antlers.

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Tattoo, recently healed.

Black Capped Chickadee on a pine bough tattoo, a couple years healed.

Rose and butterflies forearm tattoo, four years healed or so.

Cherry Blossom tattoo. 

A healed Parrot tattoo.  I held onto a big book for years just waiting for someone to ask for a parrot tattoo 'casue this drawing was in it.   I'm glad i held onto it!

A fresh tattoo of Bunchberries.  I'm so glad to have these in my repretoire.  Bunchberries are the low growing plants you see along hiking paths with either these four petaled flowers surrounded by six-fold leaves, or they've got red berries instead of the flowers.

Big Custom Eel chest tattoo.  It's nice to have been around long enough to have clients like this that I tattooed ten years ago come back and get a big amazing tattoo like this all these years later.

"The Thinning of the veils" Flash piece.

The Peony, Bee, and these Cherry Blossom Tattoos are on a wonderful new client of mine, Bless your soul Rob!

If you'd like to come get tattooed, or bounce an idea off me, shoot me an email at bram_adey@hotmail.com

I'm always taking new clients and my books are always open, I'm happy to do all sorts of black and grey tattoos.

It always starts like this:  nut butter and honey toast and a coffee, 5am.

Then it gets messy!

I love doing custom work, plants/animals/objects of all types, flames/water/clouds

A custom orchid design.

And I have tons of available designs, if you look back in my posts you'll find one called "Available Designs" and it'll have tons of designs and design ideas for your perusal.

Some flash designs of wolves.

I own a studio called Ritual Winnipeg, you can find me there Tuesday-Friday

We're in this lovely building in Winnipeg's historic Exchange District.

My Apprentice Myes's artwork.

My Current Flash wall.

We've got all the creature comforts!

All around it's pretty lovely.

There are six of us at the studio these days, we're all mostly on instagram, check us out at @ritual_winnipeg

@zefvun 

@ladymyes

@boreal.cowboy_

@bramadey

@doxthrasher

@alyssamayart

Thanks so much for taking the time to check out the blog!

-Bram