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Yellow Rose of Texas

  • Posted by Carl Hallowell
  • On September 15, 2014
The yellow rose is an excellent choice for your Texas tattoo. Whether you have been here all your life, or are about to move away, or are just here on vacation, many have felt the desire to make the moment last with a Texas tattoo. How can I not automatically think of two beautiful women […]
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Open for Business

  • Posted by Carl Hallowell
  • On September 3, 2014
Tattooing is a seasonal business, a trendy business, a feast or famine business. Tattooing is a great partner, a cruel mistress, the actual sound of the pastimes of the gods. Tattooing is many things because it involves an ever-growing number of participants. Money, fashion, and fads dictate much of what is put on today. Deep […]
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Healed and Ready For Shading

  • Posted by Carl Hallowell
  • On August 21, 2014
Jeff likes to come in for four hours at a time and get work done. The first session consisted of us standing at the counter and going through some tracings and drawings, mostly stuff by the late B.G., and then jumping in the chair, and outlining the main designs. Over a couple more sessions we completed the […]
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Yin, and Yang

  • Posted by Carl Hallowell
  • On August 16, 2014
  Yin, and Yang A clean back, a white piece of paper, amazingly inspirational and full of possibility…  I like to choose Simplicity…  Overwrought ideas look nervous, unsure of themselves… or cluttered, like a Dirty Closet… or suffocated, the line choked, unable to breathe… Most of this just things I’ve learned the hard way, what […]
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Tattoos as a Privilege, not a Right

  • Posted by Carl Hallowell
  • On August 7, 2014
Tattoos are a personal gift, given from one person to another. A tattoo can be applied to one’s own person by oneself, however, most are not. Tattoo artists must acknowledge that you cannot tattoo without the client, yet none of us are entitled to any client at all. Without both Artist and Client, a tattoo […]
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One of a pair of sister tattoos done tonight.

  • Posted by Carl Hallowell
  • On August 2, 2014
What was great to me about these was that they decided to get an image based tattoo in the end. They had originally brought in a picture on their iphone of lettering alone. While tattoo lettering can be very cool, nothing beats that strong black shading, those open fields of color. It just looks like […]
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Secret Tattoos

  • Posted by Carl Hallowell
  • On July 31, 2014
There are the tattoos you never photograph, the moments you never pause, the likenesses you’ll never use. Maybe done on an underworld client, maybe just a special girl, maybe a rock and roller, at 4am. I did handmade tattoos just to return to the roots. I did special request tattoos because of who they were […]
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Sumi Sketch, 5 AM

  • Posted by Carl Hallowell
  • On July 28, 2014
Finished reading Wear your Dreams, watched Corbin’s Tattoo Age. My mind was spinning with information and filled with an inspiration overload. Seeing a picture of the backpiece that is worn by d.a.i .u.h,  the Jerry originals showing up in the shop last week, all the great interviews in Tattoo Artist Magazine, experiencing some of these […]
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A Tattoo from Last Night

  • Posted by Carl Hallowell
  • On July 28, 2014
I was happy that my client requested color in his memorial to his Mother. I felt that I got a chance to do this classic motif justice, now that my drafting skills have improved. I believe the color really adds emotion to the piece and gives it a sense of harmonious balance. The interplay between […]
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Flash, 11×14, 5 prints, $100

  • Posted by Carl Hallowell
  • On July 19, 2014
Flash Prints   I apologize that my store page is not equipped to accommodate instant orders. What began as an attempt to add more photos to my website has now become a goal to make some of my work available for purchase through my website. I will post new items for sale from time to […]
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