Japan, part one

Hello!!!
We are actually on our tour in Japan, visiting Innina's family and the country. We have spend already over a week in Tokyo, shopping and walking in the beautiful little streets, wandering around...
It was nice to see my wife's grandmother again, meet her uncle and his family! This city is so huge, the mixed architecture is amazing, small houses caught between giant buildings, and the people are so great...
Yeah everybody is just so polite and smiling in restaurants, hotels, cafes and shops...
After 8 days in Tokyo we left the city, took the Shinkansen super fast train to Karauizawa to meet Innina's aunt Kazuko and his husband Etsuo, who carves leather in traditional ways. We stayed 4 days there, and we had the honor to work in his atelier, he explained us how to carve leather and gave me some awesome presents!
Kazuko brought us to play pachinko, a loud and funny game with plenty of flashy lights and stuff... I'm sure I could get addicted really easy! It was fun, and we won!!! So we traded our gains for beer for the whole family :)
I love Etsuo and his family, there is a place right here in my heart for them and I can't wait to see them again, hopefully soon...
It was sad to leave them today, as we jumped in the Shinkansen again to go this time to Kyoto, where we are tonight...
Okay this was a lot to read, thank you for the patience you showed to read it all, here comes some pictures!

Otsukare sama deshita!!!

News before Japan.

Hello dear followers! I hope you had a nice st-Patrick day! :)
So I have news for you about this month...
I have tattooed quite a LOT. Or at least, more than i usually do...
So I feel great about finishing big work faster, but exhausted in the same time... Working after hours, drawing all night are things that are a part of this Life of mine.
And I really enjoy it, even when it's hard work!!!
The upcoming week is the last one before our trip to Japan. I am so excited!!!
Okay here are some images...

Small post

Hello!
Okay this time, less talk and just a picture of a tattoo.
It's been a busy session on nico that day.
Good weekend y'all!!!

Some news.

Hello and greetings!
The weather in Geneva has gone warmer these last weeks, and the winter seem to gently let go. I'm glad, because I am lazy and I don't like to be forced to wear tons of clothes every time I get out haha!
I got my back tattooed one more time.
My wife and I went to Zurich and I got to spend time with one of my best friends.
I had dinner with my dad, which I haven't seen for like 8 month because he's gone sailing and lives on his boat. I had great expectations about meeting him. There are so many achievements and accomplishment that I wanted to talk with him about. One dinner is not much time, and my father also had lots of things to tell us.
Oh anyway I hope to see him again soon. I took some pictures of food lately. And random drawings for clients.

I draw a lot more for people than for myself. Part of the equation is the number of hours in one day, another is that I don't feel like drawing for myself sometimes.

Winter treat

Hello readers!
It's been a really great time these last days! I really loved the weather. It's been cold like -8 C , and with the wind blowing it's been even colder!!!
I took a walk out the other Sunday to take a few pictures.
I also have some really cool tattoo projects, that I enjoy drawing and working on. I feel the cold is slowly pulling back, and as the days are getting warmer and longer I think with happiness about the summer days, and all the cool stuff we can do at that time!
I miss long boarding, a friend found a picture of me from a few years ago, so I'll post it here too. Have a nice week, you all!!!
Love, Sylvain.

Finally some news in 2012!!!

Hello, hello!
I know it's been a while since last post.
I have been working a lot, for some cool stuff and new ideas, and that kind of kept me away from blogging.

Yeah, but after all I don't think you deserve lame apologies about why/ how I wasn't more around here.
So I'll give you some news, crispy and hot.

Soooo the end of December has been for me the beginning of my very own back piece. That's right, at 32 years old, and after years of inflicting to others that kind of pain I decided to go for mine. Don't get me wrong, I've always wanted a back piece, but I have been thinking over and over about what to decide. I have done 2 sittings so far, and it's going on pretty well.
I'm still very shy about showing myself here, but I will make a little teaser anyway.

Then on the 7th of January, we went for an Art show in Brig, for the Flying Dutchman tattoo shop's birthday. My wife and me brought some skate decks, and the theme was simple: five tattooers, five skate decks, two hours painting. Each of us made a cool design, and we sold all the decks(!) on an auction right after that. The benefits have been sent to an orphanage in Thailand, I will check which one later and tell you a little more about it when I speak with my friend about it. He is the owner of the tattoo shop, and a very good friend of ours. It's good to have people of trust in this world, and he definitely is one of them for me.

Also, last weekend of january Geneva holds its annual tattoo convention. Since its our hometown, I usually put a lot of pressure on myself to prepare everything for that special event. This year, i made a new banner, done by my super friend Xavier, and my lovely wife and me did some prints, in case some people would like to take them home. I carefully chose some nice projects to tattoo on cool clients, hoping to maybe win some price. The quality level was very high, and unfortunately I didn't win anything this year. But it doesn't matter, it was nice to be a part of it!!! And I intend to be better next year!!!
Right after the convention, we took the plane to fly to Copenhagen, because my wife is getting tattooed by the great Uncle Allan , it was fun for me since this time, since I'm focused on my back piece, I skipped the opportunity to take an appointment for me. Hah! No stress, big food, good sleep...
We actually just got back yesterday, and as I write this we are trying to relax before another big day tomorrow, last one before the week end.
So here we are, I'm done with writing for this time I guess, thank you for having the courage to read all this. And for those who just skip the blah blah, thank you for checking me out anyway! :)


P.S. oh yeah, most of the pictures are done with my iPhone. So it's some kind of another lame apology for low quality tattoo pics hehe...