Hope's Redemption

So for those who follow me avidly, and don't worry if you don't, I understand because I probably don't follow you either. For those who do however, you will remember my cousin Hope whose foot I did back in November over the thanksgiving holiday. Well, Hope finally decided to finish her foot but shading in the flowers as well as cleaning um some lines. This process took a grand total of 11 minutes, and by the end Hope was itching for more. She wanted originally to get a scripture on her wrist, and not just the scripture and verse number, she wanted the whole thing. We went back and forth on this idea until I finally convinced her out of it and we went with her shoulder blade instead.
Once we decided on what and where, it was time to draw it out. Let me tell you something, when you're dealing with a number of words in the double digits, it's easy to miss a thing or two along the way. Good thing my other cousin Lacey(also got her foot done in November) posted a picture of the stencil and posted it on facebook because if she hadn't, poor hope would've had the word "stength" on her back rather than "strength". Thanks to the attentive facebook users out there we fixed the little mix-up and got the tattoo done without a snag.

Sunday sketch

So for a while I tried doing this thing called "Sunday Sketch" where I would take my most open day of the week to draw something and just blow off some steam. Lately though, it seems that my weekends have been more creative but in a different medium. Last week I did the marathon of tattoos at a friends house, tattooing her whole family. Today, I did my boy Tevon who has been a pretty loyal customer by getting a drawing I made for him exactly as it was drawn. I used to hate when friends would ask me to draw them a tattoo and the artist the have to do it changes the design completely. So I was stoked that he had my design on his arm and it was only right that I did his chest for him to add some closure. Along with tattooing him I also did some script on his friend as well as a impromptu chest plate on Tevons cousin from Kentucky. All in all it was quite an eventful day, starting at 10 and ending just before 6.

24

I remember when that show 24 was on air, I used to think, no way this can all happen in 24 hours. Now, I realize when you put your time towards a positive effort, 24 hours is more than enough time. This past weekend in a matter of 24 hours I managed to do 4 full tattoos, 3 of which were colored. It all started on monday when I tattooed my friend Ku'uipo who had been referred to me from my friend Jojo. From there, Ku'uipo referred her boyfriend Andrew to me. After seeing the two tattoos, Ku'uipo's family became interested in getting tattooed and contacted me about their ideas. Within the three day period of Thursday to Saturday, we conversated and came up with four unique tattoos for each of them. At the end of Sunday I was wiped out from tattooing 8 1/2 hours straight and 3 hours the night before. As tired as I was, it was all worth it and I would do it again in a heartbeat. Big mahalo to my new favorite household and hope to do it again soon.














-Keahi