She’s recently done more work on it, and it’s absolutely stunning. I’ve posted on Mateo’s BME logo pubic scar previously, which has been getting augmented with a growing and glowing aura of dotwork ink geometry by Jodi Lyford of Chimera ( ) in Santa Cruz. Posted in modblog | Tagged dotwork-tattoos, flesh-removal, flesh-removal-scarification, geometric-tattoos, job, scar-and-tattoo-combos, skin-removal, tattoos | Leave a reply BME Pubic Piece Update To give you an idea of the sort of shop you’d be stepping into, here’s some work done by Fil, another one of the tattooists that call Broad Street Studio home - that’s Mike’s head top-right (you may recognize it, because Rob featured it back in 2010). If you’re a tattoo artist looking for work (or perhaps even a long-term working vacation in beautiful Bath), get in touch with Mike on Faceobook, or via their shop website. At first I’d assumed this was a tattoo on a fishing enthusiast, but it’s actually a flesh hook as Tam is part of the suspension community. Unlike most skin removal scars over tattoos, this is over a Japanese sleeve, rather than over blackwork, and the negative-space it creates interacts with the tattoo rather than standing solo. I got a message from Mike Hill at Broad Street Studio ( .uk) in Bath, Somerset, UK telling me that they’re looking for a new tattoo artist at their studio and asking me whether I’d be willing to post a job ad for him… I told him I couldn’t really do that, but if he could find something interesting for me to post, well, as they say, “one hand washes the other”… So he got me some pictures of a recent scar he did on Tam Smith. Posted in modblog | Tagged geometric-tattoos, multi-person-mod | 4 Replies Suspension Scar + Tattoo Job Offer Here are two pieces she’s done in Toronto, the one on the left being the one I got to see. I actually had a chance - by complete surprise - to see some of her fresh work in person because we hosted Russ Foxx‘s suspension event at our studio yesterday. Maika is actually in Toronto right now, doing a guest spot at Exotix, although her week is already full. I really like that each tattoo is great on its own, but when you bring them together they become so much more… this of course works as a great metaphor for love. It’s still in progress in these pictures, but already stands on its own. You may be reminded, as I was when I saw this, of some of the pieces done by Little Swastika, and Maika told me that she’s always found inspiration in his art, so when this couple came to her looking for a shared tattoo she jumped at the opportunity to adapt the style to her own portfolio. I love this double design running across a couple, done by Montreal’s Maika Houde (, also on Facebook and Instagram). Posted in modblog | Tagged dotwork-tattoos, geometric-tattoos, hand-poked, hand-poked-tattoos | 4 Replies Sacred Undulations When the tattoo is completed, he removes the needles from the bamboo chopstick, marks the date on it, blesses it with a swastika and an aum and gives it to the client as a souvenir of the experience.įerank is based at Northside Private Rooms (one of the rare studios that contains a dedicated hand area) in Newcastle Upone Tyne in England, and you can email him at or visit him on Facebook. I asked him what he uses for tools and while he points out that he “can make a tattoo with anything sharp” he usually uses pre-made needles (the same sort that would be put in a machine) strapped to a chopstick. Like most hand tattooists, Ferank is largely self-taught, doing much of his learning by tattooing his own skin. He says, “the freedom of working by hand has allowed me to tattoo and travel and connect with other handwork tattooists, who are still rare - I like this…” As you may have guessed Ferank is pure hand-poked all the way, only having used a machine a few times (and that was a long time ago). I like the 3D effect that makes it look like the design is cut right into the head, kind of a dotwork trompe l’oeil. Ferank Manseed, who has now been doing hand-poked tattoos for a decade ( “I don’t play with that modern machine nonsense!”) just finished the second session on this amazing swastika/asanoha scalp piece, which now has eleven hours of hand poking in it.
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