A post from the surface of the sun

Earlier today i was sitting in the office, sweating my ass off, thinking "it's too hot to blog!" and then i remembered that Allan is doing three tattoos today, a Sunday, and i decided to not be a dick and maybe just post a little something.
Work solidarity, you know?
Also, the shop is probably the coolest place in a city that's burning up.

Ok, news!

I'm still booking from Uncle Allan's waiting list, so be patient, i will post here when we're taking bookings and for which months.

Matthew is currently designing our new shop business card and it's looking rad so far, very excited to see it finished!
But in between his business card painting and bike riding, he does have time for tattoos, so email him to book in, there are plenty of openings coming up: matthewgordon@live.com.au.

Uncle Allan will be going to the London Convention in September, as usual, and also as usual, he'll be doing walk-ups only.
So the deal is the same as it has been for the last couple of years: come by the booth, pick some one-of-a-kind flash, get tattooed, be happy!
The Aussies will stay in Berlin this time, so if you're in Berlin and want to get tattooed at the studio last weekend of September, just get in touch with them.
I will however be bringing prints and stuff from everyone at the shop, so stop by the booth and see what we have.

We have a bunch of guest artists coming up, all of them pretty much around the same time, early October, and i will be doing separate posts on each of them in August. Yeah, that was a teaser, but i promise i'll let you know soon (hint: i already put two of them in the news section!)

If you have emailed me about merch and i haven't replied, i'm sorry, that whole part of the shop is still a mess, but i'll get on it and get back to everyone real soon, promise!

I recently realized that i haven't really posted that many photos from the new studio, and i wanna do something about that, so we're gonna try to take some decent pictures soon, so you all can see how pretty it looks (really, it's very pretty!)
But until then, here are a few shots from around the studio, as well as a few new Uncle Allan pieces, and Wendy's new awesome business cards!

 

How's that for a 36 degree Sunday update?!

Yeah, not actually that impressive, i know, but just let me think i'm being all productive, ok?

Work of my last 2 days. Made this on a swiss guy,
thank you very much! (Tribal not by me)

Shawn Hebrank tattoos like an old lady.

Rachel was very open with this tattoo,

and only requested a bird for a half sleeve.

We did this pheasant all in one session, 

and she did awesome.

I think it was maybe 5 hours total.

I appreciate everyone's patience lately, 

I've been working on changing a lot about the way I work,

and it's been a bumpy transition.

I'd like to focus on some larger pieces, 

illustrative styled and mostly nature themed,

either weird or creepy or beautiful or dark, 

or a combination of all four.

I'm straying away from the sillier, more cartoonish tattoos I used to do.

I'm not saying I'll never do those again,

but I'm hoping to do more work like this from now on.

Maybe I'm growing up a bit?

Now that I'm in my thirties i'm finally maturing a little?

We'll see.

Until then, 

if you'd like to chat about getting some work along these lines, 

please email me.

shawnhebrank@gmail.com

 

Ingredients like these.

My portfolio is getting revamped 

with lots of healed, semi-professional-ish photos. 

We have a little black curtain in the back room of the shop, 

a special angled light that reduces glare, 

and a camera that seems idiot proof. 

For real, check it out: 

Liz had some tattoos on her back already;
we let some stay,
and covered up some others,
and tried to make the most cohesive backpiece possible.
Everything now visible was done by me,
though some parts are years apart.
I'm super happy with how this piece turned out.
Big thanks to Liz for being such a trooper,
and giving me so much freedom with me tying everything together.

Fawns and birds and trees and ivy.
I love working on projects with ingredients like these.

Some Close Up from the knee!!

Last of the locusts.

I have an Etsy store, now, apparently.
Right now all that is up there is the 10 prints I found in a box
which came home with me from the Evain Tattoo Convention,
and I just forgot to unpack.
A few sold already,
so now there's only 7 left out of the edition of 58.

The info on the print, which you can go HERE to purchase:

"Paper is Hanemuhle Bugra Antique Rose. 6" x 12"
Signed, numbered, and packaged with chip board and a plastic sleeve. 
Printed at Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis with help from Meryl DePasquale.
Titled "No King" from this :
Proverbs 30:27... the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank."

3 tails.

Vanessa and I have been working on this piece for a while,
and even though we decided it's not quite done yet, 
it's healed and certainly done enough for a photo.
It's a 3-tailed kitsune (japanese fox),
and the falling blossoms are a tie-in with her cherry tree backpiece.
I am super impressed with how well she sat,
I know the ribs and sides aren't easy.