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This dude didn’t like the lightspot of skin under his armpit so much he decided it would be best to get a tough as nails tattoo put over it!

I’m ok with his vanity!

-J.H. Swanson
State of California

Karma interpretation

-J.H. Swanson
State of California

I’ve been in Kauai Hawaii for the last few days.. I took my state license test for tattooing and plan on coming back as often as I can!! It is an amazing place. Here is a few pics of my trip so far.

Hanalei bay beach

Haenna beach

Hanalei bay

-J.H. Swanson
State of California

So I believe I have a crazy obsession with eyes. I really like them, so I got a few new ones tattooed on me. They were done by Diego Ortiz who works with me at the shop in Vallejo! This dude can really kill it with the black and grey!

The first eye was to fill a small space in between my chest piece and lettering I have near my throat. I like this eye so much I decided it was time to get my other hand tattooed… The rest of the photos document this. Enjoy, and come get tattooed by Diego ‘Grenas’ Ortiz!

Reference.

Stencil: eye and rose.

Rose partially done.

In progress eye!

The finished rose.

The finished eye.

And yes, IT HURTS!

-J.H. Swanson
State of California

-J.H. Swanson
State of California

-J.H. Swanson
State of California

This is CJ. He is almost 5 and most likely will be a tattooer someday!

His mom told me he set up a tattoo station during is 4th birthday and penned tattoos on all his friend.

He stayed there all day, even when there were more festivities taking place that you would think a 4 year old would be into. Nope CJ was making temporary tattoos on his friend! Rad!

I made this temp tattoo on CJ cause he was rad! He said he likes skulls… Ok another point for CJ!

Not sure if you know this but… AMERICA!

-J.H. Swanson
State of California

The photo below was taken by Joe from 4theriders.com. It is a photo of my good friend and tattooer Paul Urich getting run over during one of his supermoto races on 6/27/10 at praire city, near sacramento!

Paul was leading the intermediate class heat race and I believe on lap 5 of 6 Paul lost the rear end and slide out. The toally normal crash in supermoto…especially when your pushing it fast like he does. The problem after the slideout was the guy behind who was battling for the lead had no where to go and ran straight into Paul!

Holy crap!.. is all I could say when i saw this photo! Paul is fine due to his helmot leathers, liatt neckbrace, and backbrace he wears!

Anyway, check out the full sequence on 4theriders.com, under 749crash. Pretty crazy!

-J.H. Swanson
State of California

In progress

-J.H. Swanson
State of California

Today was a rad day at pops tattoo in Vallejo! We are working on a new website that will launch soon! We had the incredibly talented Joey Colombo ( http://www.flickr.com/jdotcolombo )stop by and do a photo shoot for us! We all had a good time and Joey put it down!

I also had the pleasure of tattooing two really fun pieces! The first was a girl and rose and the second was none other than El Jefe himself.. Jesus!

Here is the in progress shot of the girl and rose. I’ll post a finishe pic after we make the color!

Here is the finished Jesus.. The client wanted it super dark and bloody!

Now this client, who is from San francisco, really got to feel the local flavor of Vallejo! Man was it a riot!

Dave and the V-town girls! Haha incredible!

-J.H. Swanson
State of California