𝕿𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖆𝖏𝖊𝖘 𝕱𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖘 𝖄 𝕮𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖓𝖆𝖘

Progress on one of my best buds @jacob.mauro mostly freehanded cause I hate/suck at stenciling larger stuff. If you wanna get something huge and awesome let’s do it! I’d be stoked! 😊

I thought this tattoo ended up looking pretty sweet and the photo captured it well so I thought I’d share it! If you would like to get tattooed please call or email @welcometattoonc

Variation of some flash I have available! Always fun to make designs unique each time I tattoo them. Also I’ve been rolling around the idea of making myself available an extra day a week to do only flash or ideas that I’ve got in my head for an affordable price to be able to have a mutually beneficial experience with people who want to get some cool tattoos but may not have the budget to be able to afford to do it especially with how expensive life is right now. If that might be of interest to you please let me know in the comments!

I feel like these tattoos healed well. I don’t think I did all three at the same time? I can’t really remember. I could have asked but I think sometimes it’s good to not know things, you know what I mean? In this world of people asking Ai about every little thing, it’s good to wonder, be curious without needing an answer. They say curiosity killed the cat, but knowing will kill you. Or something, I’m not good at cliches and it would be kind of against the point for me to look it up.

This may be out of left field to some of you, but I absolutely love this type of work. It is an incredible amount of work and dedication on both Tattooer and client. And I appreciate the trust this person had in me. I sat for hours drawing on paper, and we even had a session free of charge where I drew for hours on him just to get the layout how I’d want it. This tattoo was completely drawn on and was an incredible challenge. We are both thrilled with the outcome and I hope your eyes appreciate it as well. If you desire this type of work I am more than game! Please contact @welcometattoonc to book! 🙏

150 a pop, pretty good deal… Who remembers Misery Signals? They popped in my head randomly bulldozing through the constant 90s R&B that exists in my mind. Happy Birthday Welcome Tattoo glad you were born ❤️

I love filling in interesting gaps! It also helps when you get to do fun tattoos on really great people too. 🙏 always feeling extremely fortunate for all the people who have come into my life because of tattoo. Thank you thank you thank you, these words are not enough to describe the feeling of appreciation I have for you all.

I never posted a video of this guy. Here I am. I’m existing with my phone in my hand less every day. Today I’m calm and hopeful. For what I’m not sure, certainly not for a better past. Wouldn’t that be silly? I hope you take time today to marvel at a bird in flight. It’s an incredible sight.

Aight bro, who the hell didn’t put me on to Awich?! This came on my discover station and my head about came off my neck, she’s hard as nails Here’s the last tattoo I’m doing this year. I wish I was better at texting. Man I feel like slowly people have just stopped talking to me and I get it, how fun is it to constantly have to reach out to someone? I saw some video talking about how people get a really small hit of dopamine when they get texts and then some people feel dread. I’m one of the dread people. I think I’ve just spread myself so thin that even trying to get back to people who just want to check in on me feels like a lot. Maybe I’m just lazy, that’s how I feel. Can I be lazy and still be so damn busy though? I guess I wish I saw the homies more. I wish I could start doing the podcast with Sam again, miss that guy. Even if it was just the excuse to get to spend a couple hours with him every week. The end of the years got me reflecting. I wanna be a better friend than I was this year. I mean I feel like I’m a great friend, but communication is a huge part of that and I’m pretty bad at it. Well, I feel like I’m pretty good at communicating I’m just not good at doing it with my thumbs. I’m all over the place, my bad. Damn I gotta text Kevin back. Gonna do a sick tattoo on him, if I don’t fumble the bag and forget to text him haha. Got some meta glasses for Christmas. Thinking about a fun way to use them. Tattoo videos can be so boring. But maybe what’s boring to me is interesting to some. Could be fun to wear them, tattoo people and document the interaction. Might be a lot of pressure for the customer though…but I have had some incredible interactions with people because of tattoo. Might be fun to share them, or maybe they are so incredible because they are one off and only the two of us are experiencing it. I don’t know. I guess what I’m trying to say is this world’s a crazy place and there are so many things that I’m uncertain of but what I know I am certain of is I love you. I miss the homies. Hope everyone is doing well, if you aren’t and need someone to talk to I’m a great listener. ❤️

Because I only tattoo a couple times a week I’m able to give a lot more to each tattoo. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying my time tattooing. Not to say tattooing full time was bad or I disliked it I could just feel the valleys more frequently and more intensely. I think working a full time job as a fire fighter and having to work in a more structured setting really makes me appreciate the freedom tattoo has to offer. I feel more balanced than I ever have in my work life. As with anything perspective is key. I’m glad to have my feet on the ground. Love you all. Thank you for this life you’ve all contributed to. I mean that truly and with all my heart. ❤️

Just ran a call where I was getting an older gentleman up from the floor and I’m trying to sit him in a seat, he’s nervous to sit down cause he can’t feel the seat behind him. I tell him, “I got you pal there’s no way I’m dropping you” he’s holding onto my arm and he looks me dead in the eyes and says, “Man, you’ve got some big guns” Made my damn day. May someone platonically compliment you today 🙏

I don’t really know why but I thought BigXThaPlug would be funny to use as a song to go with Godzilla. Anyways, here are more thoughts. It’s like 5 am. Terrible time to post right? Wrong. Now’s the time. I woke up at 330am just wide awake. So instead of laying here stuck with my thoughts I figured I’d burden the reader with them. I think one of my favorite things about myself is I’m a good judge of character, but I’m also very optimistic and can see the good in people who are often underestimated. An asshole with a good heart is probably my favorite, because assholes are usually just brutally honest people and people tend to shy away from folks that are honest. That’s why people like me, I’m pretty quiet when I think honesty could hurt. That might be one of my least favorite things about myself. Kind of hard to admit but it’s good to be introspective. Oh also I’m not a fan of a person who makes “being brutally honest” their personality. You can be brutally honest and can come off as an asshole but as soon as you wear that as a badge of honor I lose interest in dealing with you 😂 gosh. What am I rambling about? I think I started with a point and I lost the plot. Typing in this tiny box, not being able to read what the hell you’re writing doesn’t help. But I’m not gonna premeditate these captions by writing them in a note or typing them out and pasting them here. That would be insane and completely against the point of what I’m doing. Which is; here’s a tattoo I spent a lot of time and care on and here’s a caption to go with it that I did exactly the opposite. I should try to get some sleep, I’ve got some fires to fight tomorrow or today. K love you bye