Picture From A Collector

A collector of my artwork sent me this pic of my painting in his office space.  

Mahalo.

Maui Gothic

Athena and I are having the time of our lives.  Business is good, painting ideas are flowing, her dog training business, Such Good Dogs, is thriving.  We are happier then we have ever been.

Soon we will show you all what we have been up to, although I bet it will take a few more years before we are really ready to share it all.

Mahalo from us both

Shoot First Star Wars Tattoo

I have said it many times, Star Wars is my all time favorite entertainment franchise of all time.

I made this Han Solo blaster tattoo today.  Super fun!

Mahalo

New Tattoo

My friend Gak from Japan gave me a new tattoo today.  I asked for a hand holding a tattoo machine, he made me a dragon hand holding one.  It looks amazing.

Mahalo Gak.

Skull N Crossbones

Quick walk in today.  I have not had time to blog lately.  I enjoy my blog but I have just been crazy busy getting set up here in Maui.  There is so much work to do for the future and I have very little free time for anything other then working towards my goal, but it will all be worth it in 5 years.  Everything I am doing now is going to make the quality of our lives better by 2019 or so.  I am exhausted and I spend every spare moment working towards tomorrow.  I have done this before and I know it works, so here is to the future and how freaking cool it is going to be.

Mahalo.

Baby Green Sea Turtle

This was fun to tattoo.

Mahalo.

Ram Skull

A mix of sigil work and Neo Traditional.
This client wanted a Neo Traditional ram skull with sigils and a book on fire.

This was fun.

Divinity School

Divinity School.

This has been quite the adventure.  I moved my family to Maui Hawaii on a promise of ownership and a better quality of life.  Maui is the island of runaway adults that fit into a few categories.  We find ourselves flowing into the category of simply being in love with the Pacific Ocean here.  We dive, surf, fish, snorkel, and enjoy as much of the ocean we can as often as we can.

I do not think I can remember a time where I worked as hard as I am these days.  I know that everything I am doing now will secure my entire future; that is if it all works out remotely close to my plan.  A plan is something we all have, but it is more like a vision or a vision board.  Those bordering self help creations of our dreams, our inner self vomited into a collage that’s glued together  with regret and hopelessness.  A vision of your future self is pure vanity.   I call all of that bullshit.  Be, it is that easy.  I find just being here right now today in this moment as I am the only way.

The stress-less plan, the unconstrained plan, the only plan that works is not really a plan at all.  Just figure it out as you go, do what works and stop doing what does not.  So here we are, we jumped to Maui with a promise, and so far it is absolutely working in our favor.

We are still in the beginning of this new adventure, and I am really excited to see where we are in 5 years.  I like our plan to be as flexible as possible, as adaptable as possible, and as easy going as we can be.  So far working hard and being open to anything has been serving us very well.

Aloha

Flash

I made this one just for fun.

Not awesome but it took 20 min and was fun.

Stick Figure

I have very little time to post these days.  This was just too fun not to, and it is by far the most complicated tattoo produced by anyone this year.

Mahalo.