CLAE WELCH

Its fall in Portland, and prolly one of the most beautiful ever.

Sean had this on his hand, I think we were going to black-hand him or something…
This was our result, I think its going to have a little of that old one come through.
Mostly it was a success.

UH….. I’m not sure what this is…Down the rabbit hole.

Through the years, I have seen some amazing tattoos completed by Clae. But it’s the ones that are created with meaning that resonate with me the most.

Currently, there are two tattoos that have made an impression on me. The color palette so vibrate, unique and non-traditional; and speaks to what I call being “Clae-afied.”

The first is a tattoo on our friend Connor. It is to celebrate the birth of his daughter ISABEL ROSE LAMB. A sweet piece for a darling Isabel.

The other, is a tattoo on Abe. He came to Clae with a “no holds barred” standard. Abe was about to move away from Portland, and Clae thought it would be great to send him away with a memorial piece. It started with Clae drawing the initial elements on with a yellow skin pen, and as time went on using a darker pen to finalize it’s composition and overall design. And that’s not even the best part, the magic actually happens when it comes time for color.

SEE IT PAYS TO TRUST YOUR ARTIST!!!

I am proud to announce Craig will be working at Historic, full time, starting February 1st 2K9.
Check out his master tattooery and incredible prowess just to the right in my pages section of this blog.

***CRAIG WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE AND ACCEPTING
NEW CUSTOMERS STARTING THIS NOVEMBER***

He will be at the studio for three guest spots between now and February,
call me to book some time with him. 503-236-3440

……HISTORIC TATTOO KREW……..

Here I think we missed one, this is one of my favorites I’m working on…
I’ll have finished photos up in a couple months.
Thanks Russ.

Having been in the shop on a daily basis over the past months, I’ve seen a lot of huge, awesome tattooin’ going on. Super Quality like the man in black used to say. Or, as we’ve come to call it ‘round here—hella fuckin’ balls to the wall awesome.

Right now, in my humble-but-over-educated estimation, there are two pieces running neck and neck for most wicked hella fuckin’ balls to the wall awesome tattoos. Before getting to those pieces, lets consider what it means to be hella fuckin’ balls to the wall awesome. To be appropriately hella fuckin’ balls to the wall awesome, a tattoo has to be several things at once:
a) it has to be wicked big.
b) it has to be totally gnarly.
c) it has to be something I am jealous about not having.
And finally,
d) it has to, in general, be totally badass.

Now, to the contenders…

Exhibit #1 is Isaac’s leg sleeve of Persius beheading Medusa.

For one, this tattoo is HUGE. Secondly, the tattoo is cool as shit. My favorite parts so far are the blood , the head and the floppy tits of Medusa’s body. She aint no fine-ass Greek bombshell boys and girls. I quietly seethe about not having this tattoo and I can’t wait to see it finished.

Exhibit #2 is equally hella fuckin’ balls to the wall awesome! This one is Shane’s sleeve of some poor thang stabbing herself in the heart. She’s also got a string of something—guts, tentacles, whatever—I think it looks like a string of shirt buttons all around her.

The thing that makes this tattoo hella fuckin’ balls to the wall awesome is the burly/beautiful face on Shane’s hand. Not only is it a sweet-ass tattoo, but it looks phenomenal on the hand itself!

It looked badass in black, and is now totally gnarly and wicked cool. How many of us have the stones to have beauty’s death inscribed on our hand? This is another that I’m super jealous of.

In other news, I really like the way this AK themed piece turned out. A to the motherfuckin’ K homeboooooiiiyyyyy!

Portland RULES!

Oh yea, This is about to happen!

Glad to be home. Seattle was great, but now I get some time to enjoy my summer.

FLOWERS from my garden.

That’s North.

This is my hot wifey Melissa, and her over the shoulder! …ready for Hollywood…