Uncle Tim Tattoos the World

All the banners you see behind me at the shows are hand painted and airbrushed by me with One Shot bulletin enamel. I used to have a sign shop called Sign Language for many years in Monterey Calif.

 I also do an occasional business logo or Tshirt design. This was done with colored pencil on tracing paper.

This, I hand painted for my friends Robert Atkinson and Danielle Oberosler for their shop in California. Done with One shot on the inside of the window.

 Some of my later attempts at watercolor. I do love it despite how it comes out. Very soothing therapy for anybody, I think

When I'm in the zone it flows freely for me. I laugh like a little kid when I do these. It's so much fun to let it all hang out. I've always like to play with color. I actually hated black and grey before I started tattooing. The demon below is my actual first bland and grey watercolor attempt. Not bad for a beginner, eh?

I was comissioned to do these by Granite Rock, a huge California construction company. They used them to slow people down around a construction site on the freeway. I painted them on  half-inch plywood and if you look close enough you can see two hinges on the tires. They fold up and slide into a pickup. We called them "officer plywood" and they worked well . Nobody was injured during the project.

I painted literally thousands of motorcycles. Billboards, Walls, Sho Cards, WindowsTrucks and Race cars, too. You name it, I painted it and/or pinstriped it!

 When it get's slow, here at the shop, I'm always doodling up something. I still don't know why I put pink in the crown....yuck! Must have had a brain fart. The bird logo is a business card design I drew up at the old Studio 13 shop in Salinas, Calif. back in 2002. I have recently resurrected it for my new cards. More colored pencil on tracing paper.

Above are watercolor experiments. Still trying and still learning. The dagger and pink rose was done for my pal Justice Howard just because she asked for it.

Sometimes I just feel like being silly. Especially when I'm bored. Hey! Just because the shop is slow so no reason why my mind should be, right?  On a more serious note, the dagger piece on the left is another piece I did for Justice Howard for her "Diva Dolls" project. (A very hot collection of Greaser Babes.) Check out her site on the link above left corner.

 Some of this stuff comes out of necessity and some of it comes from boredom. The cigar smoking woodpecker is actually a perversion of the old Thrush Muffler logo called "Mr. Horsepower". He's actually a thrush and not a woodpecker like so many people believe. I have piles of this stuff laying around here and there. "Mr. Horsepower" here actually became a tattoo that you can see on my home page.