Knowing that you lied, straight faced while I cried...

...still I'd look to find a reason to believe.

Thanks for stopping in to my blog, here are some new tattoos, a few photos from around the studio, and some street photography to wrap it up.

I've been making a fair amount of chest tattoos lately, and I'm super hyped on the opportunity and the results i've been getting.  Chests are, in my opinion, about the most powerful and elegant tattoos one can wear, and it feels dope to be entrusted to do them.

Symmetrical Cedar bough chest tattoo - Winter 2025

American Bittern 

Canadian Goose

I love this grasshopper tattoo - that is all...

@boreal.cowboy_ on Instagram

And the homie Ky added this spiky floral tattoo to the back side to round out this forearm.

Wisteria

My favourite crow tattoo to date for sure! On a great old client, thanks Artemis!

My books are open, and if you'd like to come for a tattoo or a consultation, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com . 

@ladymyes on Instagram

This is Myes, my apprentice.  I'm excited to see her begin to make tattoos the last couple weeks.  Learning to tattoo is definitely a humbling experience, especialy for someone like her who is so cautious as her.  She focuses on fineline tradition tattoos in a European, turn of the century style.

The Future looks bright for this one!

Thanks for looking, you can find me at my studio:

Ritual Winnipeg

Tuesday-Friday, 10-6

420 - 70 Arthur Street

Winnipeg, Manitoba.

We've been open for a year and a half now, and it's really a dream come true.  The studio is big and bright, absolutely full of original art, and we have a big crew of all kinds of different people.  

Ritual is mainly about trying to elevate the standard of care in tattooing in Winnipeg.  I've worked really hard to try to put into place processes by which people can begin to expect client-centred care, and a true informed-consent model in a tattoo studio in this city.

@ruthtattoos on Instagram

This month we have Ruth coming on to join us.  They have been tattooing for three years, and do mainly colourful neo-traditional work.

@alyssamayart on Instagram

Alyssa has been with us for a few months now and it's been nice having someone who is a little more like I was when I was young in my career, exploring all types of styles and images.

@yourbuddyholly_ on Instagram

This beautiful piece by Holly came through my room the other day too.  Holly is going to be working flash-only a couple days a week at the studio for the next little while, keep your eye on her Instagram profile for booking information.

I'm still having a great time shooting with my new camera, here are some photographs from around my neighborhood and my daily commute.

The starlings were on the block for that really rough cold-snap we had last week.

Someone on Insta asked what I shoot these nature photos with, It's my Nikon zf with a Tamron 500mm Reflex lens.

I'm pretty much sick of this lens by now, cause it's just pretty soft all around, so I think I'm gonna invest in a 600 come spring, but I'm sure I'll miss how compact the reflex lens is.

My kid Sam shot this one with the new Nikkor Z 50mm f1.4

I've never had a new lens, much less an autofocus lens, it's been fun checking it out.  It looks so much like the Ai-s 50mm f1.4, but close focuses just a little closer, so I took the plunge, cause I wanted a native autofocus lens for video stuff... 

This is the close-focus on that 50.

Spring is comin!

And this one shows the vignetting on that 50 pretty well.

Thank you so much for looking,

-Bram

 

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