New work from the always Morrissey-esque Jesse V. of THRIVE STUDIOS in Canada.

And previously on Scarwars.net…
Jessa has a lovely moth cutting on her back (see it here) by Brian Decker; and now has an amazing cutting/cautery moth hybrid to go along with it. I promise I won’t call it a butterfly.

Ryan sent this over a few weeks ago and it got lost in the shuffle. Sorry, LotB.

He says the piece took around five hours and the lucky client flew all the way in from Seattle. Gorgeous piece; as always Ryan’s lines are impeccable.

Today is Brian Decker’s birthday, so we’re featuring a new hybrid piece in his honor. Scalpel cutting with cautery highlights (giving a drop shadow effect when it’s fresh, it’ll be interesting to see how it heals).

Happy Birthday, buddy!

Another nice clean cutting by New Hampshire’s Ryan Ouellette.
If you’re interested in the history of the Ouroboros you should swing by wikipedia to find out more.
If you’re interested in getting cut by Ryan, check out the PBA link on the sidebar.

The Great Orbax is a monster.
He’d argue a Monster of Schlock, but….

Our friend Jesse Villemaire took a scalpel to Orbax’s face to fix nature’s mistakes; I think it’s helped. Now if we could just fix the hair plugs…

Ryan’s client sat for seven hours to complete this amazing combination of line and flesh removal cutting.
The level is detail is very impressive; as with most of Ryan’s work. I look forward to seeing this one healed.

The noble lobster meets a blackwork tattoo in this cutting by NYC’s Brian Decker.
I don’t really know the story behind this cutting’s client… is he a fisherman? A lover of Red Lobster? Who knows, but you can’t deny the bold badassedness of this.

In November of 2010 we featured a fresh and healing ambigram cutting by the super talented Christian Bedics; he’s just checked in with a more recent picture and all I could say was “wow”.
This is at a year healed.

Tattooist Lyle Tuttle once commented that as a highschool dropout, he probably knew more about mythology than the average college professor; that if a client loves a Cerebus enough to get the image permanently tattooed on them they’re going to want to share every detail about it’s origins with the artist.

Efix Roy’s always stellar Buddhist cuttings trend the same way for me; when he has a new work I invariably find myself researching the origins of the image to find out more about it.

The Kamakura Buddhaa is a large scale statue of the Amitābha Buddha that resides in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan. Amitābha is the Buddha of Comprehensive Love. Without today’s cutting… I wouldn’t have had to go to wikipedia and I wouldn’t have learned something new.

The moral of the story is… Efix Roy makes you smarter.