THE PATH: DOUG

CRUISIN

Check out this blast from the past. Vintage authentic schwinns with original accessories built by Mr. Cartoon and Danny D for SA Stuidios.

OSAKA: SK8BAR

Cool bar in Osaka.  You'll notice the barstools are skate decks.

The guy who runs this joint used to skate for Trigger, the same group I did design work for.

WHAT IS TIME?

One of our friends brought in his boy to get tattooed yesterday. He wanted to get his favorite quote in a custom font along with an hour glass.

Steeeefan

Stefan had his last tiny session on his lady with big big horns. If you haven't guest it yet then I really like antlers and horns and I like to put them on girls! No no it's true...I do!!
Well here is a temporary picture till I get a healed one.



Earlier there was a post about a cancellation but the spot got taken so fast that I had to take it down again. Thanks to everyone who wrote and thanks for being a appointment bookie, Stefan.


There is still a few days left to spend some hard earned money on an original painting.
Tomorrow we will ship out a few.

DIY miu miu tights TUTORIAL

Here it is the Tutorial to the Miu Miu embellished tights I'm wearing HERE

What you will need for this tutorial;

Computer/Printer/Copy Machine
Transfer Iron-on sheets
Iron
Fabric, a meter/yard or half a meter/yard of cotton or in my case a blush/soft pink silk sateen
Scissors
Tights, sheer nude
Sew-on Jewels
Needle and Thread

As for the stones, I used tear shaped (plastic) Crystals, round glass Crystals beads and two sizes of acrylic sew-on jewels. You can find the jewels in most (online) hobby, art and craft stores, if you find a link to the tear shaped crystals you can maybe leave the link in the comments for others to see...

You will need to print the Swallows on Transfer Iron-on Paper, You can find and download my high res Swallow Print HERE


Best way to print THE SWALLOWS would be of course to do it professionally, but "iron-on transfer sheets" for fabrics are a cool alternative, another alternative can be to draw your own swallows on the fabric directly, There are a lot of brands and different sheets for different printers and color of fabric, you will find instructions on how to use it included in the package.

here you can find some HP transfer papers to get an idea (I actually use a very cheap unknown brand) HP transfer papers

Follow the instructions (as much as possible) you got with your Transfer Paper and Iron on the Swallows.

It will prob come down to the same; the sheets are for cotton fabrics since the print is only transferred with heat, I ironed them on silk fabric anyway causing some birds to burn but most came out okay. I Ironed the birds on the matte side of the silk sateen and went for a light pink/blush fabric color, light blue would be amazing too.

The sheets will (almost) always give you a plastic-y stiff layer which I liked because it made my birds more solid and steady to sew on.

Cut the Birds out of your sheets, leaving some space around them and try to make as much as rounded edges as possible, you can cut all around the birds too, making it truly hellish to sew them on plus the look is somehow less attractive..

After cutting out the Swallows you are ready to start to sew them on the tights, I always wear the tights while sewing them on, you can use whatever stitch you want, when placing the birds try to use them in different angles/ rotate the swallows to find the best look and play with it, you can lay them out on a paper first to see and test placement if you want to practice a bit first.

My golden rule about placement would be;

Place them Irregular, never work with placing them horizontal or vertical under or next to each other but work in a Vertical line between the birds if you must, spy for placement HERE if you look closely you can see the vertical lines of placement.

I always first place all the birds before I start to sew on the jewels, and the tights look amazing without the jewels too so you might decide to skip the Crystals.

I placed the Jewels in little clusters and made sure they were absolutely solid attached.

e voila :) Hope you like it :)

PASSION

DIY miu miu Swallow tights

I totally got inspired by the Miu Miu Swallow printed platforms and no need to say I love embellishments, I was thinking about making my own applications for a while now and decided to start with the birds, I'm already busy with another pair of tights (with new beasts, haha) I will make a little DIY tutorial about it soon, hopefully next post!

You can find the swallow tights Tutorial HERE

SOUL SUNDAY

Beggin You - The Royal Chessmen

TRAILER OF THE WEEK

Here is another classic from the collection.

товарищ

Max took some time of from drinking vodka, playing the balalaika, dancing and being a good communist while singing sad folklores about mother Russia, to come get a god old satanic horned lady tattooed. Well maybe he wasn't that much of a cliche but he did come from Russia! Lasted way more than it takes to become a trooper and could have made it to super trooper had it needed to be. Good job comrade Max!



Second original is gonna leave it's home to go to a warmer place. Australia! I feel that I will get to know the new owner pretty soon as he has two appointments in Japan and has, on top of that, appointments in Denmark as well later on for a sleeve. Awesomeness!

Still more originals left to buy, although Amalie isn't happy to let them go any more after seeing them again. So buy them before my wife does!!

LIVE FROM, LIVE FROM

Here is a short on Jay - Z that I just seen and thought it would dope to get all you guys motivated that are going to be seeing him perform out here in L.A. tonight.

ANALOG PHOTOGRAPHY

Max has been using "analog" film here and there from which he made this nice photo of Jim tattooing on Ryan

Zoo For Sale

As promised here is a post with the painting for sale and the measurements. But first...a few tattoos.

This first little 2 headed eagle was simply glowing too much when we first finished it so I was happy to be able to get a healed shot of it today. Still a bit touch up to come but good enough for now.




Second guest was James who came back to get on with his backpiece after a looooong time. "Backpiece you say, Allan. But that is a leg?" Yes but we decided to move on a bit and start on one of the legs that goes with said backpiece. It was a bit tricky since I had two find the 2 year old drawings to match waves and flowers but it will work! Good job on that James.

And now for the paintings!

These are the original paintings that I will be selling until next Wednesday. After that I might just keep them and also we will be leaving for Japan so in order to ship them out before the last day will be Wednesday the 31st of march.
I am happy to say that one of them is already sold. The rooster is going to the Uk in a days time. Thanks!!!
This part of the post will be updated as they go so you will know what is left.

So here they are.

Hourglass.
50 x 39 cm / 19,6 x 15,3 inch
4500 dkr / 600 € / 800$



Sealion.
31 x 41 cm / 12,2 x 16,1 inch
4500dkr / 600€ / 800$



Elephant.
52 x 36,5 cm / 20,4 x 14,3 inch
4500dkr / 600€ / 800$



Deer.
43 x 30,5 cm / 16,9 x 12 inch
4500dkr / 600€ / 800$



Unicorn Pegasus.
43 x 30,5 cm / 16,9 x 12 inch
4500dkr / 600€ / 800$



Swan.
41 x 31 cm / 16,1 x 12,2 inch

As a little extra treat I'm gonna throw in a print of the painting that you buy.
To buy one (or two) write me an email on onkelallan@gmail.com
Payment will be through paypal.

Later

THE PATH: RICKY

More progress on Ricky...

Army Jacket

A good Army Jacket will last you forever, this one is from the H&M and I have it for about 8 years now! I actually always wanted a real vintage Men's army jacket but never managed to find one in a small size, the drawstring are actually a must because you can wear the jacket like a parker or just plain straight, so when looking for a jacket I would pay attention to drawstrings! I really like the Parka Army jackets that have a longer length than this one... and right now I really really love the oversized parks jackets! I listed below a whole bunch of links to Army Jackets I liked for anyone who's on the look for them, and as you can see I sometimes simply searched for olive colored parka's ;)

Army Jacket
oversized slouchy Parka
Hoodie Parka
army jacket
vintage-look army jacket
mini parka

I'm wearing; H&M Army Jacket, H&M scarf, TopShop striped crop top, TopShop floral jeans, TopShop wedges, Vintage Bag.