MERRY CHRISTMAS

Finally home with my family. Merry Christmas everyone. See you all next year! Now Im gonna have a well deserved vacation.

Grimm



ROLLIN'

It's been a hectic week. Sorry for not updating the blog, been sick and stressed out. Felt bad if the customers had to wait until next year to finish their tattoos, so the mask is on and the game is on!

I am leaving for Haugesund AKA Hell City in 6 hours to be with my family for the christmas. But first, this is what I've been doing lately;

Finished this cool and crazy colored own on Mari today. She wanted some unique colors on this design, and it was a lot of fun! 
It is on the side of her lower back. Eventually we will build more on it. Gonna be fun to do some more crazy stuff on the background and the other colorful creatures she wants!


Half heeled and half fresh in this pic. Better picture will come around when she is in the studio again and it's all healed up...


Yesterday Geggi was in. Not often I have the chance to do something on him because he lives far away, but it's always fun!  We of course continued on the japanese leg sleeve. Today we lined up a Geisha head with a katana through it.

So much fun!!! We also managed to do some colors on the sakuras and the background.. next time it will be loads of colors!!! And he also mentioned that he want's one of my black metal crazy rats on the other leg!! Stoked!

Even Candy girl came in to the studio to get some more color before Christmas.
The picture is just a little teaser of the sleeve. Will take a cool pic when I'm all done with the Epicness.

So, after all.. It's been a busy and productive week of sleeping, dragging myself to work, tattoo, draw and all other nice things I do everyday.

Hopefully I will get better soon. Now I'm off to Haugesund!
Gonna be good to see my family again. And get some nice home cooked christmas dinner!!!

So Merry Christmas to all of you!
See you next year!!!


Soundtrack of the day;
MAYHEM - Funeral fog

HELLDORADO

Still sick, but managed to get up and tattoo Mads today.

We touched up some stuff I did when I was an apprentice.. and I filled in his "bad ass leg" with a mini hanya mask! Fun! Would love to do more small japanese stuff!!!!
Not the best picture.. taken with my crappy mobile camera.. Will probably have a better one when it's all healed up and ready to shine! haha...

Other than that.. been very busy. This is just not the time to be sick..
Christmas soon, so I'm going home to my hometown the 22nd. Before that; one sleeve and two body suits has to be inked. So.. all booked up before christmas, but we do have gift cards at the studio, and then you will get 20% off! Good deal huh??

I will be back the 2nd of January. The studio opens again at 3rd. Starting to get very booked up in January, so if you wanna get some ink be fast!
ancientskintattoo@gmail.com


Me and Kaia will work in Steinkjer at studio XM3 from the 10th till' 16th of January. So if you live up in the north and wanna get tattooed, feel free to book also! Really looking forward to that week. Fun getting away from Oslo sometimes:)

Gonna be relaxing getting home and chill for a week now. Been a crazy year, and I have the feeling next year is gonna be insane! So many projects, travels and plans!

Here is a picture of Sveinung's leg I am doing right now. Bold lined old school japanese with a weird twist. Hopefully I will have time to book him in till' january again and get it done. Can't wait to take a picture of it and show you guys the whole thing!

Wish I could have projects like this every day!!!

We are also planning some cool weekends at the studio.. Pirate Saturdays!!!
As some know... I love pirates. Quentin, my boss is a pirate.. so.. what is better with a Saturday filled with Rum, pirate tattoos, pirate art and partying?
Nothing beats that.

Ship o hoy..
I'm going to bed.

Hopefully better tomorrow.


Live.Love.Tattoo



Soundtrack of the day:
CONCRETE BLONDE- Mexican Moon
(Really gets me through these days of sickness, and it makes me think of you.. yes you...)

SICK AND DESTROYED

It was so hard to get up this morning. Managed to get sick... So typical when you have so much to do. I am fully booked until the mid of January, so I can't really cancel anything now.

At least I had a fun piece to work at today. 

This is the second session on Daniel's phoenix. Still more to do, hopefully we will get it done next time in January.

Listening to Aerosmith and drinking tea, will try to get some sleep and hopefully get better till tomorrows customer!

Also, did some changes and updates to the "conventions" and "link" pages. Check em out if you care.

SKULLPTURES

Thank you kaia for getting thin one... Been wanting to make a fetus skull in color for a looooong time... of course she wanted some ornaments around, but think it looked really cool! One more session to go! fun!

FLOWERS ON THE WALL

ONLY DEATH IS REAL

Working on some new art!

Here is  little teaser;)

BLACKBIRD SINGING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT

Made this beautiful tattoo today on Heidi. A lot of fun! 

Tomorrow doing an owl! yeah! Lots of birds coming this week!

I love birds....

Check out the video of the session her: WILD BIRDS
Its in Norwegian, but cool video! Thank you Lene!

BERLIN TATTOO CONVENTION 2010

Me and Nick Morte from Lucky 7 tattoos in Oslo went to the Berlin convention this year, and it was crazy!

We arrived at wednesday, hooked up with Death Angel and Exodus for their show, drinking, hanging out and had a good time. It was cold. Tried to do some sightseeing, but the snow and wind made it kinda hard. hehe... At least we saw a little... 

The convention started at Friday.. it was huge! With new locations and a 20th anniversary, it was room for a lot of good artists from all over the world. Nice people, met so many artists I haven't seen for a long time....

Nick tattooed Gili Shani's neck. He is the photographer of Tatowier magazine... Looking forward to next issue!

Thank you Lucky 7 tattoos, Bob Tyrrell, Nick, Ed, Benjamin, Exodus, Death Angel and all the other great people who made this week a blast! Hopefully see you all next year or around the world very soon!!