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

 

Early December 2024 - Tattoos, Around the studio, and the winter setting in in Winnipeg.

Hi, Welcome to the Blog.  I'm excited to be all booked out 'till the end of the year.  If you'd like to book a tattoo in the new year, drop me a line at bram_adey@hotmail.com as usual.

Starting things off with a nice large chrysanthemum shoulder cap.  I really enjoyed working on this one, they had a few tattoos around to work with, and I feel like the final product finished off the upper arm really well.

A little pair of geese, I'm happy with how these turned out.

Here's one of the more striking tattoos Ive done in recent memory, for my Aunt with alopecia, a nice pair of head tattoos.  The lady's slipper we did four years ago or so, and the orchids, just last week.  An honour and a priviledge!

Added these cricket bats to an new client's growing collection.

I'm stoked on this wolf inspired by a video game from last week, simple, and I didn't do much altering of the image, but I like the result.

And I was really excited to make this big pair of crows design on an old client last week.  This is the kind of design you can find in my book of larger one-off available designs if you ask to see it, or look back at my "available designs" post.  I love these designs with a little story playing out, that grasshopper and fly one from my last post has a similar vibe.

And a couple healed ones on an old client:

That's all for new tattoos for this post, like i was saying earlier, if you'd like to book an appoitment, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com to get the ball rolling.   

The following are some photos from around my studio, Ritual Winnipeg, of my wonderful workmates and our creative lives together!  Starting with this picturesque stack of smaller designs that my apprentice Myes is preparing for a larger "porkchop"sheet.  She's doing great and will be starting to tattoos friends and well-wishers soon.  Look her up on instagram, "Lady Myes"

I made this otter on one of my coworker Ky's old clients.  The skull and mushrooms were made by them, they go by "Boreal Cowboy" on instagram.

These paper cranes are made by Ezra, and i'm so grateful to have them decorating the studio, they bring so much colour and spirit to the place.  Thanks Ez! To see their tattoos, look up "Dox Thrasher" on instagram, wonderful.

Here are a couple photos of recent flash sheets of mine on the walls:

Some of Ky's things:

And a part of my more private wall:

All these photos Have been from around my Tattoo Studio: Ritual Winnipeg.  The studio is on the fourth floor of 70 Arthur Street, unit number 420.  We are open to the public Monday to Friday, 10-5.  Please do stop by and say hi, and check out our portfolios.  The studio is probably a little intimidating to visit for the uninitiated, but don't let that scare you, stop by, we're all nice and would love to see you!

The rest of these are just photos from life, enjoy!

On the block:

When I was looking for spaces for Ritual, I really wanted this one, but i just couldn't write a business plan that worked for it... Now it's a wierd church... sadness...

My favourite tree on the block, the cottonwood at the end of the alley.  Between Home and Arlington, portage end of the Portage to St. Mathews block.

On the yellowhead highway, blowing ice crystals, powerful sundogs, a tree falling in the forest, making a sound, only for me.

My elder son and I visited Saskatoon, it was very cold, the river wasn't frozen, steaming in the cold.

We exit onto the Yellowhead, it's already dark, my heart pounds.

"Thank God"

Safely back home.

I haven't had much occasion to photograph blue jays yet, so I was stoked these two were kickin' it in my back yard last weekend.

Dog walk photos:

Sick-ass Miata:

This is a photograph of "Cold"

Dust

Bless your heart you made it to the end and you're reading words!

love, Bram