Our Mother of Democracy

A very happy 5 Years Anniversary TAATS! My newly renovated shop lookin' spiffy. I can't believe that my cousin and I started this business doing sticker tattoos together. I'll never forget buying my own Ericsson cellphone ($300 at the time) with just this part-time gig, lol.

Opened on July 24, 2004, An airbrushing service soon followed after that, and now we have a shop/tattooing school in downtown Toronto as well as a tattoo supply store. Cheers and here's to another 5 years and more!

Why I can never get bored of this art form. The various ideas I create always keeps the mind fresh and excited. I'll be posting some more custom bikes soon..
Some jam doodles with the guys over beer. We somehow started started talking about Pokemon stuff and ended up with these..

Haha. Neil's evolving 'Fire' pet on the left and my 'Water' pokemon on the right.

As for water..here's the fam and friends enjoying some R&R at the beaches.
Of course, part of my relaxing means having to draw tattoos on my siblings backs, lol..Well, these are temporary of course and are always fun to do specially when there are hot women around ;) lol..

..like here at the Toronto Burlesque Festival. I took time to participate in the group Art exhibition.
That was fun and there were so many eye candy works on display.
I said eye candy..
Free drink on this corner! :D

Coco Framboise where are you??..Dang, I should've taken a pic with her here.

Lovely creatures. This was a drawing from a sequential panel I did years ago and now I think I have the right skills to fully illustrate them properly. Keep an eye out for this 'lil monster book.


If only we had more people like her as our President, our country would be in a greater state. 'People Power!' and thank you Tita Cory!

Aquarius-Dragon

Alright it's February! My fav month has arrived. Lots of updates and postings.

Back to the Philippines.

Ohayogozaimus-Kumustas! My half Japanese cousins back home. Sacho (smiley boy) is such a poser, lol.

Mangoes in our backyard.

Fresh Papaya. Just the best!

Dad chillin'. Visiting our relatives high up in the mountains. Luv it. Stress free life, lol.

Mom picking Ocras.

These are not Grapes but more like seaweeds. Good for the health yeah.

Cock.

Gotcha Mr. Crabby.

Giant Jacks sa beach. , lol. Love this scene.

Golden. Another fav color and to render.

A section of 'Hell & Heaven' painting. 4'x5'. One of the largest canvas pieces I've done to date.

Oil Paint on illustration board. Updated it recently with some Photoshop magic. A traditional piece I did during high school based on a cover by one of my fav fantasy artists, Luis Royo. Another Master I give a lot of props to.

Color schemes for some character design. And now for some Painter..

White, Pink and Brown. Love the mixes of colors.

Speaking of mixes..here's the dangerous guru 'Crafty' dog. I see our banner back there, lol. Filipino Martial Arts represent! Working on something sweet for the tribe ;)

Enter 'The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse'. Coloring work in progress, drawn by the Cho-Zen one.

Virtual Sanity Vanity.

Posting to be continued...

2007 here we go!

The 2nd wedding of the year has come and gone. This time it was one of my elder cousins, Liza.

She lives in LA as well as her now husband. Since they both have familes here they decided to have the wedding in Toronto. The painting on the left is my gift to both of them. Looks like I'll be commissioned to do more portraitures like these this year. I have another cousin named Bienvenido who's going to get married this Fall...woa yeah!

In two weeks I'm off for my vacation in the Philippines! It's been almost 6 years since my last visit and man this one is going to be a lot more fun considering my family and I will be staying for about a month. My folks will likely stay a lil longer. I'll definitely be taking a lot of pictures and videos while I'm there. So Bam! Frig this winter cold haha :P


Well well well what do we have here...A Shocking blast from the past..former Shockmates reunite! From left-to-right; Push20, Lebo, Crozonia, Khan, Surge, and MaSaMa. (The Z-Man and Ghostrider Mirk will be joinin' the jamboree soon enuff). It was 10 years ago indeed that this crew was together like this and this was and will always be the original crew.

One thing for sure, this year is going to be very exciting and interesting..