Busy bee

Two tattoos today and 3 paintings. It was a productive day :)

Getting back to drawing (drawring), and trying out spit-shading..

One door opens and another closes.

The newb gets it! Also, a fellow finished apprentice has given her two weeks..she will be missed.

Also, messed up a perfectly good drawing..guess what part will get cropped?

new set of wheels!

Equals first storm chase of the season :)

wow.

It's a sad day, when a newbie thinks the only way to get through her apprenticeship is to act like a groupie. ..ugh.

It's been a while..

I practically fell off the face of the earth, and then found myself. I'm 8 months into my tattoo apprenticeship, and practicing on friends and family. After 11 years of asking for an apprenticeship, I would never take back all the time in between when I went to art school, went abroad, and tested corporate waters (a.k.a. crappy cubicle design jobs).

However, I do know this is where I belong, and am more than grateful someone gave me the opportunity to learn and grow further.
Anywho, this was a piece of work I finished for Steve Phipps recently.

oh NPR..

It is a curse, and a blessing when one finds the NPR comment forums.
I was unaware they existed (I really have just been ignoring them), and now cannot leave them alone.
Mostly, because I've found an alarming amount of comments have been from crazy, propaganda spreading fools. I mean some real Limbaugh and Coulter robots.

Is that wrong of me to say? Maybe, but I am truly sick of seeing the words "liberals", "leftist", "smears" and best of all: "communists" in any comment forum.

Seriously, is that the best you've got?
Not that the most recent person I'm debating is this crazy person, but I do have a bone to pick. SO when he's ready, we can talk about global warming right here.

Michael Crichton, cannot be used as reference to the "conspiracy of global warming" when he has supported someone like Senator Jim Inhofe, Who frequently uses the Bible as reference for his arguments!

He has also previously claimed that Global Warming is "the second-largest hoax ever played on the American people, after the separation of church and state".

Well there you have it, folks. After our founding fathers drilled into our heads that we needed separation of church and state, the Weather Channel used global warming to get better ratings..

And everything in the Bible is true.

What have I learned?

You have not "won" a debate if you get angry. In most cases, if you can't keep your cool, that is all the opponent sees. They will ride this all the way to the end, and it just makes the debate exhausting, even if you're right!

I'm learning slowly.

Squidley

I give you the elusive beer squid.