Showcases

What do I like most about my life and career as a tattoo artist? Lifelong friendships. Seriously. How cool is it that a talent for art brings together two people who begin to tattoo and find themselves 30 years later continuing that journey. So today we look at a few projects with some of my very best tattoo buddies. My friends. My customers. My life long relationships where we enjoy art etched into human skin. I have known Matt for almost three decades. He sported one of my

Starting with a concept for his child hood memories of baseball and his father me and Richard first set to working on his shoulder. Painting inspired by some classic baseball paintings, and incorporating the iconic Angel's big A we knocked his first memorial piece out of the park. Half time However that was only the 1st inning. Wanting to commemorate the rest of his family we happily moved on to painting other nostalgic memories like his time playing golf with his father. As

The Peacock Tattoo is probably one of my most traveled designs having been shared globally. The project was actually a cover up of a tribal tramp stamp as well as absorbing a previous lettering tattoo the client was no longer a fan of. So the project had to create a full scale peacock but also cover a dark tribal tattoo and merge a lettering concept into a new creation. Shown above the tattoo project was about two years into progress. This is not the finished tattoo however.

Tattooing the upper half of the torso and over one shoulder and onto the back including the arm area is known as a quarter torso tattoo. These projects take many long hours and take a commitment to the art form. One of my first quarter torso tattoos was this piece for a friend. Tattooed Between 2003 and 2009 The request for this tattoo was to create with the mind set as of time and money did not matter. How would you go about doing it if you could do it that way? So we went a

I grew up with a fascination for artwork. Which as a kid of course started with cartoons and anime. However as we and our appreciation grows artwork in all it's forms grows in importance. So of course as their meaning changes for us the same icons stand for something new and better. So of course Steven Libby came to check out our new studio in St.Petersburg's The One building I was over the moon when he asked for a Ghibli tribute. Ghibli and its Fans Steven, like me, grew up

Large Cover Up and Back Piece Tattoo by Legend Ink and Peter Bogdanov.

We are known for handling some of the worlds most difficult tattoo cover up projects. Today we showcase a few of our recent and past projects that showcase what is possible. Recreate! Recreate something out of something horrible. Here we turn an old busted tribal something into a brand new color octopus. This project was done all freestyle. There was no stencil or picture that was copied. We used the old image to let us know where the new legs would go so as to maximize the c