New Work

Long overdue, here are some tattoos I've been doing recently at Idle Hand:


Medusa on Marissa


Hippocampus


White trash Bomber


Virgen de Guadalupe


Cover-up before

Cover-up after


Gravenstein apple


Fox on Anna


"Naughty Nan", for Tosh's grandfather, after his WWII bomber plane


Spider on Adrian from Fy Fan from Sweden


Orbitrap boxing baby
(Note: NOT a cult banger. It's what he wanted, but I refused. This is the revised version)


Fun reaper done at Goteborg Classic Tattoo


Squirrel done at Goteborg Classic Tattoo

Sketch Tuesdays @ 111 Minna Gallery

I've been chosen to participate in the 111 Minna Gallery's Sketch Tuesdays this month in San Francisco, CA. It's a fun event with about 20 artists creating whatever they feel like and the art will be immediately available for the public to purchase right there at the event, directly from the artist...

This month it's Tuesday June 28th from 6pm-10pm at 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna Street (@ 2ndStreet), San Francisco, CA.

Come by, get a drink, listen to some tunes, buy some art!

Cut 'N' Color: The Film

Darin Howard, who curated the "Cut 'N' Color" show at the Pretty Pretty Collective teamed up with Agency Charlie and made this short film about the event:

PPC presents: Cut 'n' Color from Agency Charlie on Vimeo.

It's not Get What You Want, it's Get What You Get

Come celebrate Idle Hand's 7 year anniversary tonight with us during the Lower Haight Artwalk!

Two bands, Young Offenders and Airfix Kits, will be playing on the roof, and we will be doing our famous $60 "Get What You Get" tattoos all night long!

For more info, visit the Idle Hand blog...

Cut N' Color: The Reception

So the reception for the Cut N' Color" show at the Pretty Pretty Collective was insane!
Over 500 people came out, and the caliber of tattooers participating was some of the best I've ever seen!

This is the piece I entered:

"Untitled", 11"x14", 2011
Ink & concentrated watercolors

It's for sale at the show, which will be up for another 6 weeks, and if it doesn't sell I will be making prints...

Here's a few iphone snaps from the reception:





Piece by my good friend and amazing tattooer Uncle Allan

White Lines & Black Dogs

My good friend and talented tattooer Jason Kelly of Memorial Tattoo in Atlanta GA curated an amazing show at Youngblood Gallery in ATL and asked me to participate.

This was my contribution to the show,
thank you Jason for including me!

"Varg Moder", 2011
Ink & concentrated watercolors

Prints are available, contact me for info kaptenhanna@gmail.com

Cut N Color

This Saturday March 12 I will be participating in the group art show "Cut N' Color" at the Pretty Pretty Collective here in San Francisco, along side more than 60 other tattoo artists from all around the world. It's going to be a fun show for sure!

If you're in the area, be sure to stop by the opening reception, and I will post pictures here for the rest of you...