May the 4th

 Well, Star Wars day came and went. and it was pretty rad. Did free tattoos all day, we did about 10 each..

The pigs win in the end.

Mau.
Hello.. dunno if I mentioned it before, but I'm on instagram.. @richphipson
Alot of these images are taken from there.. Got back recently from Beijing. Had an awesome time there getting more than my fair share of tradition. Was good to break it all with an awesome chinese hardcore show on one of our last nights there.

Tibetan Foo.

Beijing HXC "It Never Happened"

Had a no show which meant i got to do a frikken tiny little Angry Bird filla on DannyK. 

 progress.

 and today.


oh also, the title is an Angry Birds reference. Thats your reward for getting this far!

Best feather tattoo EVER!

Well helloooo. Wanna increase views to your blog? label a post with "Feather Tattoo"..

So firstly, why the crud am I writing here after i've said that I would no longer be here doing exactly that. You see while I am fully aware that I have way more web presence than necessary, I am still on this journey figuring out what works best for me, so to try and make it more clear, if anyone cares, its like this...

this is a blog. I write and post crap that I might care about and you more than likely don't.
www.richphipson.com, my tumblr is more of a recent portfolio place. (without the crap that you probably dont care about)
facebook is for even more crap that has nothing to do with you
and instagram is a visual diary of stuff that i think youll find interesting.
oh.. twitter is basically just my instagram links..
also. this blog still gets way too many views so i might as well write something for people to look at.

If you got here by searching for 'Feather Tattoo' (which is 80%) of the people that come here. I only have 1 picture of a little 'feather tattoo'. If you got here my searching for 'Jesus tattoo' I only have one of those too, and hes got awesome lazer beams shooting out his eyes, so probably not what you were looking for.

im not even gonna go back and read what ive just written, here are some pictures from the last two months..

Nkosi Sikelel

Tomorrow we leave for Kamberg pretty excited about disappearing further down the Jackal hole for a few days. When I get back I'll be doing a couple more tattoos before leaving SA, for now here's something of what I've been up to the past week.

Heart of Gold

Martin came back for another, getting a parrot chillin with some gold.

Not much else to say that anyone would care about, so here's the tattoo.

Air at War

Been working on these massive hybrid Aves/Mammalia on Alex for a bit now. It's a 'Rowl' and a 'Hobbylope' I guess.

Crash

Al came in again after getting this about 3 weeks ago, he leaves to head back to Aus on sunday. So we did this dude on him before he leaves. Was really really fun. Loved drawing this. 

Can't say for sure what's going on here, he looks worried and there's a bunch of nuts n bolts flying of in an explosion...

Churchill Tribute

Tattooed a friend and crazy WWII fan. Filmed it for fun too.

 

Lookey.

too tired to type. here's a picture.

Don't kill yourself. pls.

Tattooed Ian from HK band DIV again, this is what we did.. 

still got a couple more gaps in his sleeve to fill up.

You shoulda seen the other guy.

 

Guy came in wanting a similar design to something that Julia had drawn.

brutality.

dear danny

 

Deer skull on Dannys inner thigh. thats it.

Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die.

 

Started on Ian's sleeve yesterday and really had to push myself toward keeping it simple. Had so much fun doing it. Still freak out that people want me to tattoo them. 

Thanks for reading, looking and especially those who get tattooed by me.

fARTHK

Went to the ARTHK event last week. Was pretty mayhem, waaaay too much to look at that's for sure. Left with a bit of a headache.

It was awesome to see so many pieces that I had seen loads of times spread thru out the interwebs in person. It's kinda like tattoos, they always look better in real life, photos never do them justice. here are some pics of some of the art. Highlight for sure was getting to meet James Jean.

 

There's also quite a bit of stuff happening this friday with

poubelle  and  start from zero

and some other going ons that i'm too lazy to link too.

see you there!

Eurasian Hobby

Did this Eurasian Hobby on the Eurasian Alex.

 

Busy working on an owl on his other knee leg, but just couldn't wait to share this.