Two new traditional ship tattoo designs from the drawing board. A digital clipper drawn in Procreate, and a watercolor flash painted on Arches paper. Both open to tattoo.

Slow painting, old technique. Talking through spit shading on a classic New York skull design.

I've been painting traditional tattoo flash for years, mostly because I enjoy it. Here's what flash actually is, where it came from, and why I still paint mine by hand instead of on a screen.