Larz lives his life like everyday is shark week

I did this shark on LJ today, he's my first shark week shark, I have a sheet of shark flash I have lined out, I just gotta paint it. Then I'll post it and just do sharks all day on saturday. I'll keep you updated

Shark week starts sunday

I made this gal on my buddy Nick, he was a champ, this is his 2nd tattoo and is ready for a few more. So as the title of this post says, its shark week, Austin, Ryan and I are wanting to tattoo sharks starting this sunday the 31st to the following sunday which is the 7th. So if you wanna live the rest of your life as if it were a lifetime of shark week, come in and get a shark..

Austin has a way with words

Austin keeps me on my toes

Catching up

Neglect

So I have totally neglected a lot of things lately, this blog is one of them, but I have been busy with some stuff. here are a few tacks I've made since my last post, just some that I liked and thought I would throw out there. I'm working on some larger stuff and wanna show that stuff off once its closer to completion. I've been doing a lot of drawing lately, a lot of drawing with markers too, just trying to get myself to loosen up a bit and think about drawing and rendering in a different way. When I use markers to draw I care less and end up liking what I'm doing more. I started doing it because I really want to do some more oil painting and I feel I'm too rigid with my paintings. I need to loosen up more and care less about the end result... So I'll have some of that stuff to show, on here in the next little while.. I did the wrench on my buddy Gerald, I like to look at the picture as if the tattoo was on his thigh, it's hilarious to me.. I did the day of the dead skull on my good friend Matt, he recently started working for peta and moved to LA, so I made that on him as a parting gift. The panther image is a painting I did that is going to be a sticker, promoting this here blog. I did the roses on my friend Erin, she can deadlift and backsquat as much as me, she's tough as nails. The lemon tattoo is on a fella named Kelvin, I did one on his younger brother as well, they were both total champs at getting their tattoos and were a good time to hang out with and chat. The skull, is on my buddy Tom's hand, I was at Tom's house recently and checked out his awesome record collection, I'm not one for vinyl but I was way psyched to see all the gems he had. We had the pleasure of having the shop painted up with some really nice lettering lately, a gentleman by the name of Dan Hardcastle hand painted the lettering on the building for us, he is a true signmaker and is was awesome watching him work. And the free revok banner is self explanatory, Revok is an amazing artist and has inspired myself and plenty of my friends, over the years. FREE REVOK, tax dollars should be spent on ACTUAL criminal incarceration.... Anyway, thank you so much for looking!

Going to the bay with the lil lady

This is what the weather looked like in Salt Lake, it was awesome, a good day to hop on a plane to San Francisco.. I got to tattoo my good buddy Tyson, today, it's always good catching up with him, he's a solid dude and a gentleman. This week has been slower than the recent weeks, it was nice to be a bit slower, I outlined a couple sheets of flash and got a ton of new music!

I'm taking the wife to the SFC to celebrate her good grades in school, it's just a quick little weekend trip, but it'll be a good time. I'ma check out a couple of my regular bookstores, check out an outside crossfit class or two and eat some good food with Shelby.

The sign that guides the way

So I have totally neglected this blog, I am an idiot... Anyway, here are a few tattoos I've done in the las few weeks. I had quite a few really fun walk ins lately, the shop is doing well, we're getting busier and busier. I'm really excited for this summer, I might do a guest spot in Athens, Georgia in the fall, which will be awesome, I've never been to the south. I've recently been thinking about my tattooing and where I want to go with it, I've got some ideas about what I wanna do so now it's all about making that happen.

This weekend was the Salt Lake convention, Jon from the shop worked in Oni's booth, Greg and those dudes are awesome for letting him do that. We're planning on working the convention next year, so that will be sweet. I went to the convention after an early appointment, I grabbed some new pigment called old gold from my buddy Nate. Nate works at 1896 tattoo in Logan, Utah, he works with Keith Haines, they both do awesome work and are both really good dudes. I got to see quite a few people I rarely see so it was a good time. I will try and update this within the next week or two, hopefully I have some more cool stuff to post. Thanks for looking

Heart of gold tattoo
Salt Lake City, Utah