The Weekly Roundup 6/29/2025...
This week's tattoos & August availability
The summer slowdown is in full effect in the Capital Region.
I can’t speak for all tattooers but between the current state of our democracy, the chaos of our economy, tariffs ( I hate that word at this point but it-unfortunately-includes most of our tattoo supplies ) and the extreme heat, it’s a wild time to be a self employed artist of any kind let alone a tattoo artist.
But when it gets slow, I pivot. I like to take that unaccounted for time to take on illustration commissions that I’d typically have to turn down.
I’m excited to be working on some band art for Hot Velvet, some banner designs for The Starlet Parlor and a sticker design for Persephone Pomme. I’ve also got a new colorway on deck for my Greatest Hits Kewpie Bandana but that’s gonna stay a secret for a little while longer 😉
We’ve also been walking around in the mountains and forests *see above video and have a little road trip to Niagara Falls planned for Mr. Smith’s birthday (he’s never been so I’m gonna fix that 🥳)
This week I got make a wee Daenerys Targaryen for Jeanne from Connecticut.
That was all this past week but thankfully so because the heat was brutal and I spent the rest of the week working on some shop upgrades to keep it cool.
Bonus: three throwbacks from June 2019, 2021 & 2023 🎉
Daenerys kewpie
Blueberry kewpie
Christmas kitsch Snowman and Deer
Drew the cat 😻
UPCOMING AVAILABILITY: AUGUST
July is fully booked (thanks y’all!) & only two dates left in August!
Friday August 1st at 12.30pm
Thursday August 21st at 12:30pm
Your idea or mine. Click HERE to book.
Discounted rates for Pre-Drawn’s & Repeatable Flash 🎉
See some available designs below. More in my story highlights on Instagram and in previous substack posts.
Kewpie Orphans™️ up for grabs!-these count as Repeatable Flash!
These poor little “left-behinds” were abandoned, never tattooed.
Sad, I know.
Won’t you adopt one today? Pwetty pweeease??? 😭😭😭
Peebles Island looks gorgeous!