Melanie starting Crystal’s beautiful art nouveau cover up! 

Another by Lisa

Finished and healed cover up by Melanie! Before and after pictures (I hope that’s obvious). 

Made some progress on Daryl’s arm! Next up: more background stained glass stuff in grey.
Daryl is one of the most awesome dudes.
By Melanie

People in the San Francisco Bay Area!! Want to get tattooed by me (Melanie)?? 

Now’s your chance!! I’ll be tattooing at Diving Swallow in Oakland for four days in January, and I still have some appointments available! Email me: melaniecatherine@gmail.com if you’re interested! 

The days I have available are January 10 and 15. 

See you in the sunshine! 

Beautiful flowers! 

Peonies and cute bugs by Melanie. This lovely lady traveled all the way from Saskatchewan to finish this beautiful piece! Aaaand she came bearing awesome presents.

Really thrilled about this one!

Also note, the stargazer lily (on back) is a cover up! 

Melanie did the outline (4-5 hours!!) for Melissa’s lace coverup! It was SO awesome having Melissa do a guest spot at Icon!!! Melissa did a gorgeous tattoo on Melanie’s back while she was here; we’ll post pictures when it’s done being itchy and peely. 

Melissa will be back soon (hopefully) to get her lace finished and do some more beautiful tattoos!

Melanie started work on this gorgeous Mucha-style monarch and milkweed tattoo. Love love love. 

Drawings for Shyloe’s giant beautiful flower and bug piece by Melanie! 

Started this yesterday and Shyloe was a CHAMPION; sat for five hours on her side/ribs and would’ve kept going but Melanie had to stop. 

Will post some pictures of the progress when Shyloe comes back on Friday! 

Pictures from Eastern Oregon! 

Our state is freaking magic. 

Lovely tiger and flowers tattoo by Lisa! 

Grrrrr! 

Look what we got today! Pretty plant from Melanie’s client Hanna and gorgeous little flowers from Niki! 

Kirsten tattooed our eminently lovely counter lady (and her cousin), the wonderful Karl! Also known as Kari, but it’s reeeeally much more fun to call her Karl. 

Karl is pretty and hilarious and generally just great. As is Kirsten! Good job, Hollidays and Klingsporns. 

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  

Melanie here. Got to work on Amber’s arm on Saturday; this tattoo is super special! Based on William Morris wallpaper, this one is SO fancy and pretty! We got a little more than half the color done on Saturday; she lives in Bellingham, so we have to go gangbusters when she comes down for an appointment. 

The colors are really muted and beautiful, can’t wait to see it healed. 

Please note: I did NOT do the kitty/frame in the center, although I did color it on Saturday! We’re thinking about adding a little nail and string above it so that it looks like it’s hanging on the beautiful wallpaper…