The Lion, The Skull, and The Pink Freak

Well its about time I get around to updating. Last week was kind of mellow, but I got alot accomplished in the way of misc. projects. Now all of my drawings are caught up and all things are smooth once again. The first piece this week was done on JJ. He wanted alot of symbolism placed in the design, which fit quite well I think. The lion was taken from the classic heraldry design, with a few tweeks we put on a bit more mass and depth in the otherwise flat standard lion. He wanted a few things layed in there with the idea that the tattoo has a tattoo for example, the numbers and letters. You can see that the look a bit off in color. What we did is placed a dark almost indigo blue in for those parts of the tattoo so that when it heals it will actually look like a slightly faded blueish tattoo. Stay tuned for the healed picture.

Here is a piece that will be colored in, but I thought it would be good to have a comparison piece for those of you contemplating color or black and gray for your next design. we will hopefully have the colored picture in a month.

This is one that I have been waiting to get a picture of. Kory stopped in last night just to see what was up, andwhile he was here we took a quick snap shot of his newest piece. This is the healed picture of about a 1-1.5 month old piece. I just love how bright those colors are. In person the design looks like a fake tattoo because it is so bright. And that is how you properly take care of a tattoo. Thanx to Kory for caring about his ink.

And all of this healed up talk has got me thinking. Maybe I should do an FAQ blog. Alright, you talked me into it. I will try to put something together. Until next time...

The Body of a God

Buddha came in needing to get tattooed. So I started back in on a project that has been so far about four years in the making. I always had a Pagoda in mind for the background, but I recently thought of putting a Jade Dragon in the design. So we put the dragon to Buddha's right, and will be placing the Pagoda to his left. Then, who know what direction we will take.

Hunting Season Approaches

This week was pretty uneventful. As things wind down and school starts the only two things left to do are watch football and start the killing season. I was talking about hunting. Bird seasons have already begun and the Whitetail is on its way, and in honor of North Dakota's favorite holiday I decided to post Matt's new tattoo. The design is fairly straight forward, a buck skull with barbwire. Then Matt brings in this t-shirt with this kick ass pinstripe style barbwire in this wild rust and white color combo. I laid it in without an outling to seperate it from the primary element of the design. I can't wait for the healed picture.

Stay Tuned... Same bat time, same bat channel

Second Week of September

It has been a pretty cool week. Kory stopped in to get his inner bicep finished, which we will have pictures of as soon as it heals, and while he was here I took a few snapshots of his Legends sleeve that we started a couple of years ago. Not sure what guitarists to put on next, we have been holding off on getting more done to it.

Tim came in for his half sleeve dragon. He had a lot of symbolism he wanted in the design, and he said that we achieved it. Plus at the end of the tattoo session the Vikings demolished the Falcons 24 - 3. So all together it was a pretty cool week.

Dragon Country

I just finished this piece about a half hour ago. It took us 5 hours over 2 sittings. The thing that was really cool was that when Mike came in he really new what he wanted. Even down to how many horns and where. Of course I got to draw it up my style, but he had a portfolio full of designs to use as a reference.

Brenda's Seahorse

A gal I haven't really seen since high school came in for her first tattoo. She found some temporary tattoos that she thought she might like with a few alterations. The design was a butterfly with tribal around it, but she wanted something similar with a seahorse and seaweed.
Here is what I drew up and put on her
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Avoiding an earache

I figured that I had better get some picture posted or I wouldn't hear the end of it.

The First Post

Welcome to D.O.A. Disciples of Art. The personal blog of Michael (Million) McGough.With the new tattoo studio and everything else going on I needed a good chunk of time to concentrate on other things, like family and work. Now with being down to one job I have a little time to spare for finishing the website, myspace, and starting this blog. Sorry to everyone who has been waiting, and thank you for your patience.