Rosy cheeks (pun totally intended)

Today Anne had her second session on what is turning out to be a rather large backpiece (see pictures of the first session here).
Anne was not expecting this thing to include neither butt nor ribs, but that kinda just happened anyway!
But i think we can all agree, at least the three of us did, that it's staring to look pretty damn awesome.

It's always so nice and chill when friends get tattooed.
Lots of time for coffee and cake, and chatting about random shit.
And lots of time for Allan to complete his rose-stencil puzzle without feeling stressed!

Bird-lady, or lady-bird?

Butt rose 1

Butt rose 2

Next time, whenever that will be, Allan will add some more lines, and hopefully some black too.
I personally can't wait to see this one finished!

Lady bird

Allan has been working on some really fun projects lately, but since they're all pretty big, it'll be a while before we see the finished results.
So for now you'll have to settle for some in progress pictures.
It's better than no tattoo pictures at all, right?

Here's our homegirl Anne, getting comfortable in the rather cold shop (i swear, it's like friggin November here at the moment...)

Fancy bird lady has some fancy leg chains

Another very late night at the office...

Very much in progress as Allan still needs to add flowers, so i'm afraid Anne hasn't seen the last of the liners yet

Oh dear...

Sunday was a very silly day at the shop.
Silly because we were even there on our day off, and silly because the guys decided to tattoo each other.
Not just any tattoos, super realistic portraits.
Yup, just you wait and see.

But first, here's Lucifer, probably the smartest guy at Conspiracy Inc. that day

I was a little sick, so i took a nap while Eckel tattooed Chriss

This is the result of tattoo number 1: sad, crying emo Allan!

Then Allan tattooed Eckel...

Tattoo number 2: Antler Chriss (or is that Antler Jebus? It's hard to tell...)
Double antler awesomeness!
I got tattooed by Chriss as well, not a portrait though!

Last not-so-happy customer of the day: Allan

Tattoo number 3: Eckel puking upside down crosses... obviously!

Chriss went home today and we totally miss him already.
He's an awesome guy (and a good house guest) and having him as our first guest artist at the shop since we moved was just perfect.
I'll post pictures of the tattoos he did while he was here as soon as Allan transfers them to his computer, so that's something to look forward to!

This is what happens when you let Chriss work at your station...*

*Yes, that really is Eckel!

Not-a-floor-post

Ok, todays post is a special one, as it does not contain any construction, decoration or panel painting pictures at all.
No, i have decided to give you all a well deserved break from moving related news and show you what Allan has been working on today.
We don't normally post that many in progress pictures, but since the blog was in desperate need of some tattoo action, and Allan already blogged about it once, we made an exception.

Henrik's cello playing antler lady, ta daah!

More recent tattoos here!

Our Lady of Doom

The antler lady has been for sale at the shop for a couple of months now, but we've just been way too busy to send her overseas.
She's too big to fit in an envelope, so we had to find some paper tubes that could fit her, and that mission has finally been accomplished.

So, if you've always wanted to own your very own limited Uncle Allan print (only 60 made), signed and numbered by the man himself, here's your chance!

The info on how to purchase one can be found on our myspace (in the merch blog post).
If you're not on myspace and want to know more, just post a comment here.

We're only gonna ship out once before closing down for Christmas and new years, so if you want it this year, place your order before the 21st of December.

The lady measures 51x36 cm and she's printed on fancy card stock

Say chees-u!

It's been too long since anything has happened on this blog, sorry about that.
But the shop has been busy and when the shop is busy, so are we!
And we do have our own blogs to update as well... you understand, right?

Here are some pictures from last friday at the shop.
Like i said, it had been a busy week (not regular-shop busy i guess, but Conspiracy-busy, nonetheless) with a guest artist and lots of clients and visitors.
Friday we had cake and took some shop photos.
It was Eckels idea, and a good one too.
For some reason we never think of doing that ourselves.

It's important to stretch before taking a good group photo

And, if you're Allan, it's also important to make your already huge hair extra fluffy

From left to right: Allan, Eckel, Eric, Lucifer and me, and the photographer is Christel

This one is actually kind of good

Allan did this one on Eric

Eckel did this on Christel (picture is a little yellow, but i'll get a healed photo as soon as it's, uhm, healed)

And this on Marisa earlier in the day

Now, if you'll excuse me, i'm actually on vacation, so i shouldn't even be here!