Times are a changin...

[Mr. Red]

Okay, so I've been told that people have been asing about the progress on my pin up portraits. I know, I know... I've been picking ass. Between working 2 jobs, having 3 side jobs, playing in a band and trying to work on getting married I simply haven't had the time to work on them.

...But times are a changin...
In a couple weeks I'll be coming to a crossroad the likes of which I haven't seen in years. It's the type of crossroad that people only come to a few times in their lives. The type of crossroad that undoubtedly changes one's life forever. I'll be taking the risk and leaving my job as a video producer to become a full-time tattoo artist at Spyder Rose Tattoo. Some may say, "Ooh, big deal. You're switching jobs". It's a little bigger than that though. I'm leaving a carreer as an award winning video producer, editor, animator and designer in which I make pretty damn good money to jump into the bottom of the food chain as a tattoo artist. I'm not just jumping in blindly, mind you, and saying "I think I'll become a tattoo artist". It's something that I've thought long and hard about for years and now that I've been apprenticing for a bit over a year I've decided that if I'm get the most out of this and become the type of tattoo artist that I want to be then I need total emersion. I can't gain the type of skills that I'm after by sitting behind a damned computer for 10 hours a day. Don't get me wrong, I've always loved what I do for a living. Being a video producer is a lot more fun than a lot of jobs, but I love art a lot more.

So, as of the middle of April I will be starting a brand new life. One with out the stress of corporate responsibility. One in which I'll have the freedom to draw all day long without feeling like I'm still the kid in the back of the class doodling in his notebook (every notebook, calendar and sticky note in my office looks more like a sketchbook than a notebook). One that allows me to be the artist that I want to be without the constraints of technology and corporate dead beats to guide and stifle my creativity.

Come the middle of April I'll be able to really sink back into these portraits, which is good, because It's been bothering me how long this project has been hanging in limbo waiting for me to come back to it. I haven't lost the excitement that this project gives me.

So, here's to a new carreer, a beautiful new wife, and a wonderous new life.


.... I swear this song was written just for me ....

Rockabilly Rebel - Hillbilly Hellcats

[Wink Holliday]

Wow! You're taking a huge step, and you're taking it with grace and strength. Way to go!

[Betty Red {PL Team / Madam}]

I am so very, very proud of you baby. Here's to our beautiful, less stress life.

I love you.

[Honey B Hooligan {Madam}]

Congratulations! You're absolutely right about total immersion, tattoo artistry is something you really have to give your "all" at. and I'll see you at the Wedding in August! ;) Congrats on the wedding too!!

xoxo,
Honey B.