Drawing for Rachel’s amaaazing Song of Ice and Fire tattoo! Love this one so much! 

By Melanie

Drawing for Crystal’s beautiful chest piece/cover up! 

By Melanie

Circus tiger by Melanie! This is the first piece of Courtney’s fancy circus leg; pretty pony will be added next week! Very exciting!!!

Melanie tattooed Betty!!! We have lots of fun here. Healed pictures to come!

Made some progress on Daryl’s arm! Next up: more background stained glass stuff in grey.
Daryl is one of the most awesome dudes.
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Woo hoo! Melanie here. Last night I finished this art nouveau monarch piece; absolutely one of my favorites!! Slightly bloody iphone pictures notwithstanding, enjoy! I’ll be posting healed pictures next month. Green leaves and solid black are totally healed; the rest of the color was done last night. 

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! 

Some of the pets of Icon! They are just as festive as we are! From top to bottom is Orange Cat (Melanie), Mcgee (Nick), Ruby (Kirsten), Jackson (Candace), Virgil (Alena), Emmy Lou Olive (Lisa), and Brutus the Bonecrusher Avocado II (Betty). 

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. 

Still want a literary flash tattoo? They’re available at a discounted rate until the end of January, and we’ll still donate 50% of profits to Write Around Portland! Look through our older posts to see more of the flash….

Melanie got to finish Amber’s beautiful arm! 

Based on William Morris wallpaper designs. 

Note: cat and frame at center NOT done by Melanie. 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

More pictures from literary flash! There are a bunch on our instagram as well, icontattoo. 

Thanks again! What a rad day full of rad tattoos, rad people, and rad post-tattooing margaritas and snacks (mmmm, Trigger, you’ve changed our lives for the better). 

Progress on Danielle’s uber-lovely art nouveau back piece! One of these days we’ll finish it up! If you want something super awesome like this with ladies or flowers or art nouveau or fancy things or lace or birds, tell Melanie! She wants to do it! melaniecatherine@gmail.com

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A couple weeks ago Melanie got to do this cover-up on the lovely Jenna. In January when Melanie goes down to the bay area they’ll be finishing it…ouch!