Well, I finally got all our stuff from MN. This means the house is getting settled and I can hopefully get back into a routine! That said, I am starting to practice my guitar again each day.

I’m going to try to put in about 15 minutes each day on scales, chords, and finger picking blues stuff! I got a finger picking blues book years ago and will do my best to put it to good use! I also just downloaded a cool app for my iPhone called GuitarToolKit by Agile Partners. Check it out if you have an iPhone, as it seems to some cool features including tons of scales, a tuner, metronome , and a chord library with 500,000 chords! Seriously, are there really that many chords? Anyway, I’ll be putting the app to good use!

I should also mention it was my 15 year anniversary on Thanksgiving and I painted my wifey a little piece as a gift! Here it is:

The rose and horseshoe is an old design from the Pike and I added the banners, 15 years, and background! It was a fun little painting to do.

Well that’s it for now…Except, so the title of this post makes sense, I LOVE coffee! Take care!

Stay Humble,
Joe Swanson
Tattooer, Painter, Teacher

Like the title of this post says…I suck at updating this blog!  For that I am sorry!  I have been very busy lately.  I am still working out the details of the Invisible Dagger Society – Members Only area of the site.  This will be a monthly members only society and each month you will receive a new tip on age old secret drawing formulas used by tattooers from the past to today!  I also still have my Rose course available HERE!  If you want to know how to draw a traditional rose using a couple of cool formulas then this video course is for you.

Also, my Paint Flash Course is still available online as well as in DVD format.  Go HERE for the online version and hit me up if you are interested in the DVD version.  My email is joeswanson@thisistattoo.com if you wanna start painting some great tattoo flash designs using the techniques like spit shading and tinting your flash sheets.

If anyone is interested I would also consider one-on-one training/critique via skype and email.  Email me if you want more personalized training to get your art going in the right direction.

Here is one of my latest paintings I did for a friend of mine in SF.  It is called “Jesus owned Pitbuls” (sorry if the quality of photo is not great it was taken with my iphone quickly before I gave it to my friend)

Take Care and thanks for stopping by,

Joe