Sri Ganesha is one of the most worshiped of the Vedic Deities. The remover of obstacles and the Lord of Beginnings, He is usually represented as a male with the head of an elephant. I prefer his Heramba-Ganapati incarnation with five heads.

This piece, by NYC’s Brian Decker, features scalpel cutting and cautery branding.
You can catch Mr. Decker at this year’s Philadelphia Tattoo Convention or at his NYC PURE location. (Link on the side bar!)

First post of the new year features a hybrid cutting/brand by NYC’s own Brian Decker.
I think it’s a moth. Which probably means it’s a butterfly. Pretty much any time I say it’s one, it tends to be the other. Either way, it’s really well done.

All I wanted for Christmas was a big shiny diamond. Thankfully our old friend Rata had one to spare. Fresh line cutting over a healed tattoo. This is going to look great healed.

Been a while since I’ve updated, much less featured a cutting from Mr. Ryan Ouellette.
Two birds, one stone. Or one key and a dime. Whichever works.
As always, you can find more info on Ryan by clicking the Precision Body Arts link on the right sidebar.

Ron Garza travels more than some pop singers and by and large has a lot less (televised) meltdowns than Brittney or Beiber. He recently traveled to Croatia, where he did this collaborative piece with our new friend Christian Bedics. You can check Ron’s blog out at here for more of his travel misadventures!

November is turning out to be a good month for Christian Bedics; new to the Scarwars site this marks his third contribution in a few weeks; and a damn fine one it is. The lettering style has a really nice West Coast/Mike Giant vibe to it… and from what Christian told me, is on his own leg! Makes for a happy artist and client.