It's been awhile...

Sorry it's been so long between posts. I really did have the best intentions of keeping this blog going strong. In the meantime however I've been hustling trying to make solid tattoos and art. So here's some of what I've been up to. 

I recently did a Nine Inch Nails flash sheet, and people seem to dig it. I'm doing my first one off it on Thursday evening. 

Added some flowers onto this existing skull tattoo I did on Darcy a few months ago. 

Really happy with this bat head girl

This one is from my sketchbook that I've been trying to fill with designs. I did this at the roc city tattoo expo this year. 

Also done at roc city 

 

Tattooed on Andrew Green who works at my shop

Tattooed on Bailey who runs the counter part time at Nautilus tattoo in Newington, another really good shop in our area. 

 

A rose and pocket watch 

It just occurred to me that I emptied my photos recently, so most of this stuff is from the past few weeks. Regardless, it's a fresh update. I know I say this every time, but I'm gonna try to keep on top of this thing. Thanks for looking. 

Just some 5x7paintings I did over the past few weeks 

New phone, no apps

Hi everyone. Sorry for the lack of posts. I upgraded my phone and lost all my apps, and I didn't get around to downloading Blogger until just now. So here's what's up these days...

The shop is in full swing, and my schedule is booked out about three weeks or so. So I'm still pretty booked, but not AS booked as I WAS a few weeks ago. So that's good news for all of you. 

It also helps that I've been turning away projects that I'm just not into. People come to me all the time for tattoos that I'm just not that into. There are five other tattooers at my shop, one of them can do it, or the customer is certainly free to look elsewhere for their work. I don't want to tattoo everyone on the world, just the ones that like what I do. I'd rather not spend days at a time drawing for a half sleeve that I'm just going to hate upon completion. So that's what's up with that. 

Convention season is over.  We are skipping Manchester New Hampshire again this year. We just don't have the time or the funds to apply to a trip like that. Sorry New Hampshire. Maybe next year. 

Hers some of the work I've been doing lately. 

I finished up this flash sheet in between appointments today...

Along with this one. These designs were mostly things I had laying around already or from my sketchbook. Time to put em up on the wall. 

Tattooed this rose a few days ago and I love how it came out. 

I finished coloring this girl with a deer on Candace a few days ago. She's definitely one of my favorite tattoos on one of my favorite customers. 

I tattooed this crown on Allison earlier this week. It was redrawn from a piece she found online. 

And lastly I did this astronaut coverup on one of our old apprentices Josh (Blackie). There's an old Italian flag somewhere in there. 

Thanks for looking. Hopefully I get to do some of those flash pieces soon. If you're interested contact me at liberty tattoo llc 860-828-8880 thanks!

Some new pieces

Ghosts and such

I LOVE Japanese ghosts. Fucking LOVE them. Here's an in progress shot of Mike N's back. More please!

Convention Season

Hey everybody, sorry for the lack of updates. This blog is the closest thing I have to a personal web site, so I know i need to get better about updating it. The winter season was rough at my shop; we had some dead spells for sure, but we made it out the other side and things are picking up with the warmer weather.

Springtime is convention time for me, and even though I don't do a lot of conventions, I do believe I hit the most important ones. Quality one quantity, or so they say...

Sharkey and I did the Mass Tattoo and Arts Festival in Sturbridge last week. We didnt bring our tattoo gear as we had intentions of only selling artwork and merch. Even though we didn't do as well as we usually do, we at least broke even on the trip. So that's something.

Up next is Scranton's Electric City Tattoo Convention. This show is a good one. A lot of good friends of ours do this show, and Scranton is a really fun town to hang out in. It's April 17th-19th.

After that is Roc City Tattoo Expo in Rochester, NY. Soooooo many heavy hitters at this one. If you're in the area it's not to be missed. May 1st-3rd.

Then I'm off the Mooncusser Tattoo in Provincetown, Mass from May 29th-June 1st. Good shop, good people, good times.

After that is the Live Free or Die Tattoo Expo in Manchester, NH, which is mid July. I will have to sure up the dates on that one.

So this past weekend we had a cookout at our shop to celebrate one year down after our move from our 853 Farmington Ave shop to our current location at 544 Deming Rd. We grilled up some burgers and dogs, drank some beers, and raffled off some prizes. Not many people showed, but all in all it was a good day.

Photo stolen from Andrew Green

I've also been belting out some new artwork and tattoos. Take a look:

Baku and Kirin backpiece on Stan 

Newest addition to Josh's clown collection leg

Little señorita pinup on Jess

 Some small skull paintings I've been workin on lately. 

There has been a lot more than just this stuff, but I'm not gonna post every single one. Sorry. 

If you feel like getting tattooed at one of my travel dates get at me. You can email me at patrickmurdough@yahoo.com. 

Thanks for looking!

Drawn on skull

So today I got a phone call from Kevin, one of our regulars. He said he wanted to get a skull on his leg to go with the little reaper and sword I did a few months ago   He said he wasn't picky and didn't have a budget. So I drew on this skull and monster hand with flames. I think it came out pretty damned cool. 

It took about 2 hours or so to tattoo. This was a lot of fun. Hopefully I get to do more stuff like this in the immediate future. 

I also did this boat on the boat of this girls neck. She handled it really well, and the end result is pretty nifty. 

Sorry this post is so brief, but I'm fried. Have a good night, and thanks for looking.