Fishhook Beach Scenes

Today I tattooed an entire family with traditional beach tattoos.  It was really fun and we worked late into the day.  Here are six of them...

Then I got a late night walk-in for another beach scene!  Today was really fantastic.

Mahalo.

Tiki

The client picked this right off my fun wall, and I had a really good time working on this.

Mahalo.

Polynesian & Baby Turtle

Today was a fucking great day.  I tattooed all day non stop for 13 hours.  This is the best life, and these two tattoos are my favorites of the day.

Mahalo.

Fishhook

This was a fun walk-in.

Mahalo.

Maui Beach Hibiscus

I dig working on American traditional tattoos.  This was really fun.

Mahalo.

Script

This was a fast walk-in.

Mahalo.

Firefighters Carabiner

Last October we had a brush fire right behind our neighborhood.  The fire was directly across the street and with the high winds some of the sparks flew into our neighborhood and started small fires all over.  The area was evacuated for a day and we felt like we barely got out in time.  I ran home from work, ran into a friend and his girl on the road who raced me back the rest of the way so we could get the dogs out just before they closed off the neighborhood.  There was so much smoke that I couldn’t see through the house it was so thick.  The fire department really saved the neighborhood, so Athena and I dropped off some stuff to the fire department as a mahalo for saving the neighborhood.  The client is a fireman and he wanted this tattoo to be one of the lessons he earned on the job.  I tattooed his carabiner with the acronym SSFK slow and steady fast kills. This is the final session on this forearm band.  It was a really cool tattoo to work on, and the clients a cool sci fi geeks at heart.  

Mahalo to the Maui Fire Department.

Fleur De Lis

This was fun.

Mahalo.

Memorial

My friends son passed away from heart problems tied to his disability.  It is beyond tragic, and I loved that kid.  This is a duck from the book that my friend read to him often.

Mahalo Lyric, you taught me some cool stuff in the very short time I knew you.

Orchid Fish

This was fun and strange, an orchid flower with fish bones as the stem.  Athena called it “flish” for the fun of it.  Today was a crazy busy day, and this is no favorite tattoo of the day.

Mahalo.