Monday, December 19, 2011

SCRAPPY UNO! GODOY MACHINES PROFESSIONAL.


TRYING TO BRING SCRAPPY TO FUNHOUSE!

Scrappy Uno is DAVID GARCIA, Mexico's premier portrait / black n grey tattoo artist. We have been going to Mexico for conventions for the last 10 years and at most of these conventions, one name keeps winning repeatedly in the black and grey and realism competitions - "Scrappy".

We award a machine to the winner of the best realism events at the conventions we attend and as Scrappy kept on winning year after year, convention after convention, so we decided one day to just hand him the machine because he "would have won anyway".. and he did. Since then he has been sponsored by Godoy Machines.


We are proud to manufacture and promote the "Scrappy" model machine.

FOR LEFT OR RIGHT HANDED TATTOO ARTISTS, THE SCRAPPY MODEL FEATURES:
STAINLESS STEEL DUAL TOP AND MILD STEEL BOTTOM SUBFRAMES ARE SUPPORTED BY HIGH SENSITIVITY EASY SATURATION SQUARE SUPPORT COILS. (Patent pending). THIS MACHINE'S COILS, SPRING GAUGES AND COMPONENTS COMBINE TO PRODUCE INCREMENTALLY SENSITIVE RESPONSE. THE SCRAPPY UNO IS A TRULY VERSATILE MACHINE, UNIVERSALLY TUNED TO HANDLE THE REQUIREMENTS OF ANY TECHNIQUE.
Scrappy has appeared in several magazines and television programs world wide.
These are only a few of the awards he has won.
Below is a gallery of some of his work. Perfectly even and smooth subtle grey washes require skill and understanding of technique as well as a well tuned machine. The understanding of machine components and function will facilitate this type of trajectory.







HOW DO YOU COMPARE? DO YOU WANT TO REFINE YOUR SKILL? DO YOU WANT UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY HOW TO REACH THIS LEVEL, IN TATTOOING AND IN MACHINE UNDERSTANDING? OR WOULD YOU RATHER RECOGNIZE YOURSELF AS MEDIOCRE... YOU GET BACK WHAT YOU PUT IN.

BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION.





Thursday, December 15, 2011

JUAN IS NO LONGER AT THE SHOP... THIS IS THE LATEST.

Mexican / global tattooist Juan "Super" Arreguin is one of our crew, no matter where he is. He has left to open his own shop in Leon, Guanajuato Mexico. We're all proud of his achievents and contributions and are grateful for the time he spent with us.

He is recognized for his artistic and loyal contribution to the progression of the art wherever he may tattoo, and now, right here, with his own model machines by Godoy Machines. Pictured above are a pair of his "Fly" and "Super Fly" model machines.


The Juan Arreguin "Fly" Model. A pair of 6 layer high saturation coils. Unequaled in incremental sensitivity, no other round coil assembly can compare. The magnetic field generated by specific wire layers and gauges are sequentially integrated in this coil assembly to combine with distinct spring gauges and tensions plus armature bar mass and weight to produce the highest variety of incrementally sensitive variations in force. A true masterpiece.


The Juan Arreguin - "Super Fly" model. A steel frame with our patented square coil assembly. Our patented square electromagnetic coil assembly boosts magnetic field mils by invoking an exact combination of material and a specially designed coil core mass. Spring material, gauges and tension combined with frame specifications to dictate fluid movement, variable velocity and incrementally sensitive force There are several special NEW and innovative features on this machine, NOT found on any other machine in the industry which enable maximum sensitivity at lower voltage. From a light and sensitive feel to punchy and more forceful, all under 4V.


Juan's work is easily identifiable and un mistakable. All the elements of light, shade and contrast can be seen. As well as fine lines...


The SUPER FLY MACHINE is able to subtly blend and fade as well as solidly line and evenly color with just a slight turn of the potentiometer.


This is proof that good work does not just happen by chance or luck or just on the artist's ability. A well tuned professional machine, built by professionals that understand these techniques (because they apply them themselves on a daily basis, just like you do) , can make any artistic goals a stress free reality.

Cover ups...

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To full chests...


CHRISTMAS IS COMING... GIFT CERTIFICATES ARE GOING FAST!!!

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Back in Paradise

 This walked into the shop the other day... his first tattoo. He wanted something for his wife and he brought in an image and this is what we came up with. He sat well for it and it was a good end to a very busy day here in Waikiki.
Some letters and a date on the chest for him and his new wife...

The day before I left town my client stopped in to start another design, this time with tribal and stone. When I get home we can get this done.
Another small walkin before I left town.















This was a fun one. She came into the shop at NKO before I left town and wanted a shield with symbols in it representing important things in her life. This is what we came up with.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

I TOLD you we would do T SHIRTS!

Yes, I completed all the art back in March. And then we were slammed for the duration of the summer. We get a bit of a breather as the holidays jump on everyone, & I finished the files & shot them out to the printers. We have two designs,... the kamikaze grrl committing seppuku is a six color print on the back, with the Seppuku cartuche on the front. We have them in heavyweight cotton t shirts, & also a limited number of Dickies work shirts, in M-L-XL-XXL. $20 & $40 respectively.



We also have shirts for the ladies, a three color print on the front, on American Apparel baby dolls. We have S-M-L-XL, at $20.



We also have art prints. Johnny ran six prints of the paintings he's done this year: The Pirate Queen (painting done for the cover of Skin & Ink magazine), Steamed Punk Grrl, Zombiegina, Beautiful Music, Infinite Geisha, and Death's Bed. These prints are 13" x 19", some on white, some on off white water color paper, $20.

Matt has a run of art prints based on the skull studies he's done this year. Also, a number of original oil paintings. https://www.facebook.com/?sk=lf#!/media/set/?set=a.179688725399409.39027.100000748482809&type=1

I will update this entry later today. For now, you can stop by the shop & see the art for yourself, or contact us via our website. Thanks for everyone's support!

Monday, November 28, 2011

only 3 days away

This was my deer skull that I started yesterday. We went into the shading in the skull for the time being, and outlined the antlers. I had fun with this one, its my biggest tattoo I've done to date, and I can't wait to shade in the antlers. It'll be cool to see how this heals....
This was done last wednesday....on my bestest friend Lauren. She's been wanting this tattoo for years, she's been waiting for me to tattoo her since I started apprenticing years back at the other shop, however it was well worth the wait. Although the foot was pretty painful for her, she sat through the whole thing. Kudos to Lauren!!!!! xoxox
close up
Walkin done at No Ka Oi last week. She wanted just an outline at first but I think a little shading and the blue really brought it out.














Cool walkin from today at No Ka Oi. She was super nice, from out of town, and this was her first one. Again, she just wanted linework originally, but after some careful persuading we added some shading just to give it at least some depth. Tattoos that are just outline always look unfinished to me (there are exceptions to this of course) So after this was done she was super stoked on it, as was I. I hope to see her back in the future to possibly add more to it.


So the countdown begins. I leave Friday morning. I'm almost done packing, have to get my bike all packed up so I can ride around the island, and getting all my other stuff in order. I can't wait to get out of here for a little while. It'll be nice to be away from everything and come back refreshed. Its kind of funny....I had literally just mentioned going back to Hawaii to my boss a few weeks ago, and then I get the call to go out there. Funny how things pan out.

Until next time....

Monday, November 21, 2011

Hawaii bound!

So it looks like I'm heading back out to Hawaii to guest spot at Skin Deep again. I leave Dec 2 and I come back to Philly sometime early Jan....very excited, yet very stressed out. Unfortunately we lost a very important man named Mike Brown, who has been tattooing for well over 30 years. Super nice guy, honest, funny and a pleasure to be around despite the fact that he can be cranky :) He let me tattoo him the last time I went out there, it was one of the first roses I ever did. He had an impact on me and I'll never forget him ...... here's to you Mike!

And now back to business..... since I'm leaving town in 2 weeks, I'm scrambling to get shit done and do as many tattoos as I can. Here's what I've been up to....

This was a sweet walkin that came in today... super nice guy that has a love for Sailor Jerry designs. He brought this one in, and we got it all done....after I get back we plan on doing more with his arm and adding all the stars and dots to go with it. Definitely fun one to do, my first Peacock!



Finally got to finish this one last week... Jon is letting me do some fun stuff on him lately! He let me design this lettering and do it however I wanted... so we finally finished it after the outline healed.... here's what we got so far...

The next one we started is a rose near his elbow... it's a crappy pic so when it's all done I'll be sure to post it.
Steve came back last week also to finish the poly segment that we started... we were finally able to get rid of that line that divided the spearheads... going to see how it heals up and hopefully I can get a nice touchup session in with him so I can get some good photos of this. I want to be able to put this in my book for Hawaii so I can get more experience with Poly designs.
The lovely Rose came back to NJ last week to get a few letters added to her IRS shield. After we were thinking about it, we should have just put the initials in the center of the shield, but at that time she was unsure about putting his name in there considering the shield was his....Anyway I got to see the tattoo up close and healed up, overall was happy with how the color healed, touched up a few tiny spots....the outline needed some work, I wasn't too stoked on how they seemed to blow out a little after it healed. I'm just being critical. Going to watch myself on that one.
A BIG kudos to Parker for letting me do this boxing cock on him!!! I got to play around with weird color combos and deal with working with really stretchy skin since he's lost so much weight over the years. This second session went way better, I got to see how his skin worked and had less trouble streching. I hope to see this healed great so I can get to the purple behind the head again... I want to blend it out more I think. Also it'll be good to see a pic without the blood :)
This was a walkin about a week and a half ago. A challenging design that definitely made me sweat a little, however it was a good challenge. I guess you could say it's good practice/warm-up for my upcoming trip to Hawaii...lots of tribal-type designs.

Well that's all for now, got a busy week coming up! I'll post more when time allows....

ALOHA