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Here are some of the pieces I worked on this week.

There’s more to be added to this tribal.

This one has color coming.

Thanks for stopping by, I’ll post again next week, a habit I’m trying to maintain.

See ya then!

I have to give thanks to all my clients and friends who have supported and believed in me all these years. Without these people non of this would be anyway possible.

I promise to maintain my dedication to the craft and traditions of tattooing, giving you the best efforts I can muster in every piece I do. Beautiful art that will age gracefully along with you.

My name for the shop came from simple use of the Thesaurus. Divine = Beautiful and Affliction = Pain. Pretty self explanatory don’t you think?

Thanks for stopping by and checking in on the site. If you would like to make an appointment write me an email to Horizayas@gmail.com

Here are a few pictures from the past couple of weeks:

These are just some of the tattoos I’ve done recently. I’ll try to post more often, I’m trying to kick the Facebook habit, and post more here than there.

This next piece turned out to be cover up once the arm was right in front of me. Hopefully it’s not very noticeable but there are a bunch of Chinese characters covered by this piece. I generally don’t take “before” pictures anymore. I figure that if you can’t tell its a cover up in the final picture then its an all around success.

Here is another finished cover up:

Most of these were taken with my phone’s camera, which is not the best choice to say the least, so please forgive the shitty quality where applicable.

For the past week I been blessed with doing things like these, which is something I really enjoy:

This next one is based on the work of artist Isaac Jackson. This came to me with the center piece attempted by a scratcher. Of course it was up to me to make it right.

And there is still more!!

Of course I have tattooed different motifs for the past quarter year, but this seems to be a trend that I am quite enjoying!!

This one I’d say is 90% done. This started out as a half sleeve that just kept growing. Most everything pictured here is healed except for the forearm flowers and they yellow accents on the snake.   It also continues onto the chest but the connection is not finished and thus not shown. If I had to take a guess at how many hours its been so far I’d say it should be between 16 to 20.  Of course we break it up into 2 to 3 hour sessions which is the way I recommend for sleeves.

Now this sleeve was finished in way less sessions, but each one was at least 4 to 6 hours long each one. My man Paige here was working on a tight schedule as he was finishing school and moving back to NY.

This particular sleeves is part cover up. There used to be a band of stars going around the forearm, which is easy to notice only if you know what you’re looking for. I can’t remember right now if there was something else I covered. The name under the arm was not done by me and we ran out of time before I got to fix it.   I think we got this whole arm done in about 4 sittings for a total of about 16 hours. ( My estimate, he might have a better idea).

Black and gray is mostly faster than color work, and in my opinion could be a lot less painful too.  This here arm came to me with a few scattered tattoos on it and it was my job to make it all blend in and look like one cohesive piece.  Hopefully I succeeded in my mission. What you guys think?

Things I did NOT tattoo on this arm:  upper cross and lettering, the kanji (Chinese letters) on the triceps and the dice with the banner. I did not do the lettering on the wrist although I did fix it.  Everything else was designed and tattooed by yours truly.

As of this picture the sleeve is pretty done, but like always there will be a few things to touch up and tighten up. Specially the elbow, rare is the time a tattoo heals perfectly the first time on an elbow.

I currently have a few more sleeves on the works but are not so done that I can show you guys what they look like.  Please check out the tattoo gallery if you’d like to see some other sleeve shots I have in there.  There are a lot of tattoos I’ve done that are missing from these galleries which is something I will try to remedy some time soon.

Thanks for stopping by.

I’m done for now.

Sink a fork in me.

As I am lucky enough to have found this few minutes to post something new, I will take a short cut and post pictures easily available to me on my computer.

I’ve been working on a new wood burning collection for this year, don’t know when I will be done and ready to show the whole set, but here is a preview:

Digital painting is something I like to mess with once in a while, here is my last finished digital painting:

And lastly here I will post a random sketch from my latest sketchbook:

Why the hell not just throw in a picture of a couple of pages from my newest tattoo flash set:

These were done in acrylic and colored pencils.

There you have it, a post just for the hell of it.

Thanks for stopping by

Last time I had seen Loren (tattoo recipient) his arm wasn’t even big enough to accommodate this under it.  So when he first told me on the phone what he wanted, I requested to see him in person first. Sure enough the boy has been eating his protein, because that space was not there before!

Unfortunately, we cannot see in this picture how he can make it beat by flexing. Its actually a pretty cool visual, maybe we can get a video sometime.

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I’ve actually spent most of this week sick, so If you have tried to get in touch with me and have not been able to is because I was miserable and feeling like ass.   So… don’t be too hostile when I call you to reschedule your appointments.  Thanks

Not all the work displayed is by me. I did not do, but possibly touched up:  The graffiti lettering, the Kanji (Japanese letter), the skull by the armpit,  the silhouetted dude,  and the word “soldier”.

Everything else is done by yours truly.

People get confused and worried about what they want as a tattoo.  They don’t trust their own judgment and taste. This sleeve is a good example that sticking  to  things  you like, no matter how silly they may sound to other people, You can come up with a very interesting and unique tattoo.

It’s like a fellow artist told me once when he saw this piece: “It’s what a sleeve supposed to look like, a bunch of random ass stuff thrown nicely together.”

CLICK ON THE PICTURE FOR A REAL CLOSE UP LOOK!

Other times, the person with the tattoo on them might snap a picture that  makes for a better showcase of the work than any picture I’ve taken. This is one of those:

Thanks for the picture Bobby!

Here’s a tattoo that I couldn’t take a picture of with my camera. I really don’t like phone pics, but this one is not so bad.

If I remember correctly this is a wood carved statue of an African chameleon.  Has a lot of meaning and folklore behind it, which I don’t remember at the time.

Either way this turned out pretty cool and had fun doing it.

Now let’s see if this uploads properly …