Summer - 2013

Well, as always it's been a while since I posted.  Here are some new photos of what I've been up to.


Holdin' onto these quite a bit.

An older one - healed.

Some asparagus.   Stuff like this is my bread and butter.

Some beehives, These were real fun ones.

Do you ever think about... like... Hexagons?

Another real fun one.  Hand poked circle.

A nice big outline.  One of a couple larger tattoos I've started lately.

I got to polish up this one, one of my favorite tattoos ever. 

It felt cool to do this one, a big ole heart and a pair of lungs. 

Sometimes I feel like I'm getting away with a lot these days.  Line-blasted tree.  When I was really young, I had a wonderful artist friend take me to a windrow of willows and ask me to draw them.  That was the day I learned about "shorthand" drawing. 





I was happy with how this olive branch turned out.

Cover-up patch.

Just for fun patch.  With another cover up to the right.

A three quarter sleeve I've been working on.  I'm happy to have something large to show people.




Roses are good.



Some details of the four circles piece. 

And beautifull Avery!

Thanks for looking, Bram

from: Collin B.


to: tiangotlost@gmail.com 

date: Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:55 AM 

subject: What does this mean?



My friend asked me to find out what she's had tattooed on her shoulder since her teens.



Can you translate it or identify it as junk?

大過 [たいか] serious error; gross mistake

from: jessi j. 

to: "tiangotlost@gmail.com" 

date: Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:47 PM 



Hi Tian, I have always wondered what this tattoo really says. 



It's supposed to be the initials "S M S". 



Something tells me that it does not. Id love it if you could clear this up for me finally!







Another sucker of the gibberish font.

from: John M. 

to: tiangotlost@gmail.com 

date: Sun, May 19, 2013 at 8:04 PM 

subject: Tattoo translate 



No idea what I even had done 15 years ago. Honestly no clue any help? 



I think was meant to be my initials. 



J A M. 



Thanks again and I enjoy your blog. Thanks for all the translations.







Another sucker of the gibberish font.

from: Lan S.

to: "tiangotlost@gmail.com"

date: Sun, May 5, 2013 at 8:15 PM

subject: Awesome Tattoo



This guy told me his tattoo (老彼了我孩）means I'm always looking after my boys.















































What is this hodgepodge of "old, that, me/my, child"?!

A tiger!

As always, thanks for looking. Here are some new Tattoos.

I was happy with this one.

You might've seen this already. Cosmic whale.

It's always nice to do some tattoos by hand. Without the aid of electricity.

Ukranian Pattern.

Another one you might've seen already. New photo though.

from: JP

to: "tiangotlost@gmail.com"

date: Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:23 AM

subject: Chinese character tattoo translation



Hi Tian,

This is intended to say "passion". Can you tell me how it actually translates?



Thanks

JP

情绪 does not mean "passion", rather "mood, moodness".



Both 情 and 绪 have been split into two separate radicals.