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..

May the 4th

So, this is happening tomorrow.

A bunch of us have drawn up some flash for the day so if you're in the area pop in and say something star-warsy.

Oh. if you wanna get tattooed share this image and be there at 1pm. first in first out.

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..

cyclops

It's 2020, by this stage the robot takeover lead by Siri is in full swing.

It is unknown whether their desire for reverting to classic projectile weapons is due to a malfunction, or an over development in the nostalgia chip in their systems.

Either way, athletic robots shooting down planes with flaming bow and arrows is just awesome.

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.

portraits of egyptian snakes

Did this Egypt lady goddess chick trying to fly, standing would probably be a good start

Today I had this portrait which i dont really get to do much of so it's always fun and uses a whole different part of the brain to tattoo, 2 hours and not a drop of blood, pretty stoked.

After turning down a couple of appointments Ian casually strolled into the shop unaware of his perfect timing. I was bidding my farewells to my client and was more than happy to oblige him, especially when i heard the words, "little cobra tattoo." so we banged this dude out. yes.

All Seeing Owl VS Blou Lion of Judaaah!

Hello fellow Inter-weba-lebers! Firstly thankyou for visiting my blog, I never say thanks, but it's cos I don't think anyone actually reads this, but then when i see my stats im like, "eff"! 

Special thanks to the lands of Northern America and Australia, where i seem to recieve a whole wod of support. If you guys wanna get tattooed by me, the awesome Rossel and I will be traveling to SA in Jan and Aus in March, for some convention time. I know still a while till then but hey. 

Today the electricity was out at work because we pretty much dont care about anything except tattooing... hence anything that actually has to do with business gets done last minute.. this sucks when you have to get them to come put the electricity back on.. sigh, irrisponsible us. 

Anyway, that meant no work for me today, but i get to come home and do some design work that ive been putting off for a while now. 

Also in unrelated news, my wife and I start tracking next week for our album, so that's gonna be a whole lota funness... aaaand back to tattoos, here's two for you.

 

Zombie praying hands

Religion is dead.

Navy shark

The navy's in town, I got to do this rad gnarly shark... 

There's a twist though, with a curfew of 12am and the dude only pitching up 2 and half hours late for the appointment means i had to do my best with what we had, it's a massive side piece and he sat pretty well. 

This is 5hours worth, real stoked with how it came out. The photo doesn't show the colour, but you get the vibe...

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.