Negativity in tattooing and life in general...

I haven't been tattooing long enough to understand why tattooers feel the need to be angry or hateful toward each other. I have been tattooing long enough to have some of that hate directed at me, and I've had it affect my life outside of tattooing. I feel like I have a hard enough time dealing with difficult clients. So I have decided to try to ignore negativity and not try to involve myself in talking negatively about people. I have found this very difficult to do, especially when it's happening all around me. Meditation has helped me tremendously with this, since I have started mindful meditation I have been able to think a little more clearly. Now I'm no guru or lama, i can only keep my concentration for about 5 minutes so far, but I can only imagine the benefits of this if I could meditate for longer periods of time. I don't know what attracted me to this, I'm definately not a new age hippy or anything like that but I needed something and I found this. It is helping me manage stress, negativity, and negative people that come into my life, hopefully it only gets better.

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Another RYU!!

I did this dragon on an awesome client who had some awesome stories to tell from his time as a cultural anthropologist, good times tattooing this guy....

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RAIJIN

Did this raijin a while back on a super cool dude that just walked in one day... Raijin is the japanese god of thunder...

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Just finished this sleeve...

I love doing japanese themed tattoos... Thank you to all my clients that allow me to tattoo these images on them

Exhibition at Augies Coffee house in redlands ca

These and several other paintings will be displayed for the month of July at Augies coffee house which is an awesome Little spot in downtown redlands, check it out grab some coffee and look at some art...

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Hanya

Little hanya jam

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ONI

I drew this oni, after some serious introspection about my art and style, and where I want to take it, and the following paintings will reflect a small change to my color theory and line work... Thanks for looking...

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