Alyssa ice cream cone

Alyssa, my homie from back in Nelly's Trig class, has been my so called "go-to" friend when I ever wanted to talk about art or more recently, tattoos. She has a couple of tattoos herself and was nice enough to let me practice new tattooing techniques on her. Keep in mind, this design was totally spur of the moment after about an hour long session of catching up and trying to think of a design. Finally, from a design I had tucked a way in one of my sketchbooks, we decided to do this ice cream cone. This was my first experience with color and I think it went well regardless of the fact that I had to mix most of my colors. It was a fun session and hopefully we'll be have more spontaneous tattoos in the near future.

works in progress

Being a new tattoo artist, I knew it was crazy to expect that I'd be able to take on every tattoo with the ability as a veteran but I figured if I go a bit at a time, the pieces will get better as we go along and will show the progress i make with each new tattoo. Here are two projects I started, one on my friend Britney, and the other on my brother Isaac. These are the first attempts in their respective styles but will definitely not be the last. As an artist I try not to confine myself to specific styles but I will say that these two styles are my main focuses.  

Brits Back Piece


Isaacs Back Piece

Jennas Pueo

Just did this the other day on my good friend Jenna Pang-ching. Her aumakua are both the pueo(owl) and the puhi(eel). So to combine the two I put the features of the pueo along with its feathers and incorporated it into a design in the shape of the puhi's body. Both aumakua are protectors in the two realms in which they reside, the pueo in Wao ka lani(the sky) and the puhi in kai 'akea(the ocean). This tattoo will serve as protection as well as her own "808 iD" as she travels to Portland Oregon to attend College.

Papale Pulelehua

So I've been working on butterflies lately because I'm working on a tattoo for a friend. So when I finished all of the butterflies she asked for, I decided to make just one more while the idea was still fresh in my mind. So this is Papale Pulelehua or "Butterfly hat"...yeah that's all I can think of, oh well.