Pin-up tattoo by Reed

Did this pin-up on Danica it is the second of a entire sleeve of pin-ups we are working on.. This tattoo shown is in the healing stage.. Im always stoked to see Danica She is always happy and always brings a slice o pizza to keep me well fed.. She also knows more about building cars than most so called gearheads!!

Tattoo by Reed

Did this cool Grim reaper on Evan, Who really sat like a king man!! This tattoo took about 12 hours to complete but the payout was spectacular. Super dense and vibrant colors, tons of detail.. This is the kind of stuff i dig to do!!

TATTOOS BY BRIAN

This tattoo is also in progress but very close to being finished completing her entire upper torso. Angela has been a great customer and an even better friend.

in progress by Brian

This was the start of my sweethearts warbler and magnolia tattoo, photos of the completed piece are on the way.

Tattoo by reed

This design is from a old sheet of flash by Iggy Vans. I belive he drew this flash up while he was working at Everlasting when it was located under a house. Iggy is a very good old friend of mine from back in the Older days of tattooing.. We worked together about 18 years ago for quite a few years. He is now working in the city (S.F.) at Idle hand on Lower Haight. Together we amassed quite a collection of good times and crazy stories!!  I am always stoked to get to do a piece from his flash set and have done quite a few over the years!

Tattoo in progress by Reed

Working on this on my work mate Jennifer.. Cool piece on a cool girl!

Tattoos in progress by Brian

Here is another example of new work in progress, this is for my co-worker Andy paying  homage to upstate New York.

Tattoos by Brian

This is an example of some new work I am doing for Hannah. A hybrid animal mash up inspired by childhood events that leave their mark. This was the first session lasting one hour forty five minutes. Stay tuned for follow up sessions.

Tiki tattoo by Reed

I did this Tiki on my good buddy Bobby. We are gonna add a witch doctor on the other side and tie it all together with some tiki huts, volcanos and other island related stuff. This here is the type of stuff i love to do.

parrot tattoo by Reed

This was quite a fun tattoo to do. It took about 12 hrs to complete in several different sittings. we still have one more sitting to get in there and tighten some stuff up.

Alameda tattoo begins

All right people, here is the first installation (of many) into this here blog site thingy..
I will first start by saying its been 20 years of tattooing in the East Bay for me and the time has come for me to open up a shop with my good friend Brian Hutflies.

Our journey this far has been a very time consuming task indeed.. It took nine months from the start to finish and thousands of dollars to finally get thru the city and get the keys into our gruby little mitt's.. But we did it and now the fun begins.. We are at 650 Haight street, the cross is Webster and we are right where we wanted to be, just a little bit off of the main st.  We are hoping to be open around mid April or May..  The space is small.. REAL small but in reality, all we need is a space to create killer art and tattoos with minimal things going on around us for distractions.. Its more of a studio really and that's all we need... We have trimmed all the fat and all that's left is art and tattoo's..  No piercings, no stuff for sale, just art.

The picture above was taken after the public hearing at city hall.. (Brian is on the left with his daughter and myself Reed on the right) Complaints were filed at city hall by people that did not want to see us open a tattoo studio in their city and in fact tattooing has been illegal in the city of Alameda since 1974 so unless you were grandfathered in, you are out of luck.  Opening a tattoo shop in Alameda just, was not going to happen.. As someone that worked in city hall said, it was "going to be an up hill battle".. Well we have never been afraid of a battle so we started making phone calls and finally after a few days contacted a woman named Kathy Moerhing, who ran the Webster street business association and was instrumental in us get thru city hall and all of the hoops we had to jump through (thanks Kathy!).. Hey it didn't hurt at all, that I tattooed her about ten years ago either! Thanks to Brian Stanke and Andrew Thomas at city hall as well!!
Lastly I would like to thank ALL of the many people that wrote city hall for us, without you none of this would have been possible!!!  Like I said it took 9 long months a few head aches, dozens of letters, lots of research, ALOT of freinds and some cold hard cash to get this ball rolling. so lets move on and do this thing!!   Please stop by the studio check us out and set up an appointment!!
Cheeers!!! Reed

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