Work of my last 2 days. Made this on a swiss guy,
thank you very much! (Tribal not by me)

Shawn Hebrank tattoos like an old lady.

Rachel was very open with this tattoo,

and only requested a bird for a half sleeve.

We did this pheasant all in one session, 

and she did awesome.

I think it was maybe 5 hours total.

I appreciate everyone's patience lately, 

I've been working on changing a lot about the way I work,

and it's been a bumpy transition.

I'd like to focus on some larger pieces, 

illustrative styled and mostly nature themed,

either weird or creepy or beautiful or dark, 

or a combination of all four.

I'm straying away from the sillier, more cartoonish tattoos I used to do.

I'm not saying I'll never do those again,

but I'm hoping to do more work like this from now on.

Maybe I'm growing up a bit?

Now that I'm in my thirties i'm finally maturing a little?

We'll see.

Until then, 

if you'd like to chat about getting some work along these lines, 

please email me.

shawnhebrank@gmail.com

 

Ingredients like these.

My portfolio is getting revamped 

with lots of healed, semi-professional-ish photos. 

We have a little black curtain in the back room of the shop, 

a special angled light that reduces glare, 

and a camera that seems idiot proof. 

For real, check it out: 

Liz had some tattoos on her back already;
we let some stay,
and covered up some others,
and tried to make the most cohesive backpiece possible.
Everything now visible was done by me,
though some parts are years apart.
I'm super happy with how this piece turned out.
Big thanks to Liz for being such a trooper,
and giving me so much freedom with me tying everything together.

Fawns and birds and trees and ivy.
I love working on projects with ingredients like these.

Some Close Up from the knee!!

Last of the locusts.

I have an Etsy store, now, apparently.
Right now all that is up there is the 10 prints I found in a box
which came home with me from the Evain Tattoo Convention,
and I just forgot to unpack.
A few sold already,
so now there's only 7 left out of the edition of 58.

The info on the print, which you can go HERE to purchase:

"Paper is Hanemuhle Bugra Antique Rose. 6" x 12"
Signed, numbered, and packaged with chip board and a plastic sleeve. 
Printed at Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis with help from Meryl DePasquale.
Titled "No King" from this :
Proverbs 30:27... the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank."