Looking For a Tattooist in Coffs Harbour? Check out this slideshow by Ash Gravino. A photo collection of tattoo art, set to the song “All you know” written by Ash Gravino, performed by Horsley Drive

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backdrop by Ash and Megan Louise

The week leading up to the Sydney Tattoo Expo was hectic as usual…trying to get things organised during an already busy work schedule…shopping lists to make, supplies to get, drawings and stencils to finalise, not to mention working out how all of the stuff was going to fit in our cars for the 7 hour drive down south!

I shared a booth with the talented Megan Louise and we collaborated on a painting to hang in our booth. So to a soundtrack of Lou Reed on Vinyl and a couple of glasses of Red, we created our back drop using acrylic and posca on canvas. It was a large canvas so it had to be tied onto my roof racks. Wrapped in a “Dora the explorer” sleeping bag, and secured to the Holden with kayak tie downs, our artwork arrived in Sydney safely…

After the expo it was tied back on the car for the trip home. I was hoping to hang it on a wall at the Absolute Tattoo Studio in Woolgoolga, but it wasn’t meant to be… the loud flapping of the “Dora” sleeping bag on the roof of our car stopped suddenly, about 50 kilometres north of Sydney.The painting flew off our  car at 100 km/h , hit the car behind us, and was never  seen again… I said goodbye to the painting, at least i have the photos!

hello world
getting close to christmas…2010 has gone by so fast, has been a year full of good fun tattoo art! i am grateful to all the people who have chosen to come and see me for their skin art over the past year, and special thanks goes out to all those who have traveled long distances to get here!
I will be hopefully ready to post some new pics soon, i seem to be in the middle of a few cool tattoo projects at the moment, and am looking forward to finishing them soon. I am also looking forward to break after Christmas, including a quick trip to Melbourne!!!
but until then…Full steam ahead!

yeah i have been told, and i know that i am a bad blogger, i know i should write things more regularly…i just don’t seem to get around to it,
Well the shop here has been busy, especially for the quiet time of year! plenty of variety , although the “rose” has been the flower of the month for sure…not complaining at all.
Thanks heaps to all my clients who travel up from south, Good Times!

This a pic of my First Skate deck painting…done for the 2010 Sydney Tattoo Expo…

skatedeck for Sydney Tattoo expo 2010

long time between posts,partly because of being so busy tattooing, and partly because of Cyber laziness…have been doing some fun pieces of late,including the beginnings of a black n grey dragon back piece , that Remy flew up from Sydney to get two seven hour sessions in a row…not to mention some cool custom pin ups and Day of the dead faces…looking foreward to plenty more colour coming up….Also looking foreward to going up north to check out the new Absolute tattoo studio in Kingscliff in a few weeks….

had an awesome time down at the sydney tattoo expo…got the chance to do some cool pieces and see some great artwork being done. It was great to work along side the guys from Absolute Tattoo in Murwillumbah and to have a little fun with the crew from The Mark of the Gypsy…congrats to pearla from Voodoo on mondays Tatt of the day….and congrats Kaylah on being the toughest girl i’ve ever tattooed…

After the Surfers tattoo show, im looking foreward to the Sydney Expo even more…Just finished a painting on a skate deck for the show, i had no idea it would take me so long, but im pretty happy with the result…now just have to organise my appointments, and get some artwork done, should be sweet. See you there!

Had a great time up in Surfers Paradise at the surf n’ink expo…saw some awesome work by some international and Aussie Artists…looking foreward to trying some things i learned in the seminar by Mike Devries….

Cheers to Russ, Anth, and Nath for making it a fun weekend.

Definately busy here in woolgoolga, and although we are open more hours to cope with the flood of tourists, the locals and regular clients have taken full advantage of these extended hours….

Now i am eagerly looking foreward to travelling up to Surf Ink Tattoo convention in surfers paradise next weekend to check out  some art….learn some stuff at a seminar by Mike Devries on colour realism ,and to have some fun with a few of the guys from Mark of the Gypsy in sydney, and James from absolute!