James tattoos Baltimore Craft Icon

Hello all, James here. I had the recent fortune to tattoo a wonderful artist from Baltimore, Juliet Ames of The Broken Plate Pendant Company. We started a custom representation of one of her favorite plate designs. While I tattooed her, we talked a lot about her work and the craft movement. It was a great experience and I thought you might enjoy checking out her work and reading her blog which will be chronicling her tattoo experience in her own words here.

James' Fixer-Upper of the week

Hello Everyone, James here with my "Fixer-Upper" of the week. I really enjoyed fixxing this tattoo on one of my long time clients Christian. We discussed some possibilities prior to our session. After chatting he gave me artistic leeway and this is what came out of it. Thanks again Christian, this was fun-Stay tuned, we'll be tattooing his other chest panel in the coming weeks with a cool Kapala skull to blend into his Black and Grey Dragon I did last year.

ALL AMU STUDENTS....

...I hope you saved those Postcards we sent out at the end of last semester... If you have one, you know what I'm talking about. If you don't-You might want to ask around- they were pretty popular or maybe just call us. We MIGHT tell you where to find one. Trust me if you want piercings- you'll want this postcard.

Bethesda Tattoo in the Local Media

Check us in this months edition of Garageboyz.com We were the feature article in the tattoo section. Sweet!! Thanks again Bingo-Many apologies for not getting this up sooner.

Bon Voyage' To our Pal

Our Buddy, our pal. Has moved on to drier climates in Texas. He's fallen in love and ready to take on new challenges in his career. Along with his Brother- They started their trek out to the long-hong state, taking the scenic route and some time to take in some Americana at its best. With sparkles in their eyes and the wind at their backs.

All of us at Bethesda Tattoo will miss our buddy and we all wish him the best in luck and love.

Safe Travels Brother.
James and everyone at BTC

PS- You can keep in touch with Josh and see when he'll be back in town doing guest spots and conventions thru-out the year at his personal art site- www.pandabinge.com

SUMMERTIME IS DONE and GONE!!! Phew....

What a Summer!!! Thanks to all our new clients and friends for coming in and getting worked on over the summer. We made some new friends and it was truly a gorgeous summer indeed. Our counter staff Adam and Jaime worked hard to answer all your inquiries and handled all our appointments like wizards. MAN, We can finally come up for some air. We were slammed, Our apologies to those who didn't get an appt. when they wanted,come in and see us this fall we'll have many openings available. what can I say-thanks to you we were booked to the max this summer season. We had a blast making some of the nicest tattoos we've ever made- keep checking in folks to some of those very tattoos featured on the site.

We can't forget all the hard work our Body Piercing crew put in this summer. Andy was a true piercing workhorse, We couldn't keep count how many people came in for various piercings- in was outstanding! All the girls love this guy! Michelle rocked out many, many piercings as well. Her skill level continues to soar into professional status.

BIG THANKS to our brother BINGO at www.Garageboyz.com for the feature in his monthly webzine. If you haven't checked it out-it's worth reading over. He covers the counter-culture scene here in Montgomery County-it's chalked full of Choppers, tattoos and attitude. Good stuff Bingo-Keep up the great work. and Thanks again.

Were gearing up for a cozy fall and winter-perfect time to get in and get that big tattoo project started and finished before Spring rolls around. James seems to be Booked up pretty good all the time. His work speaks for itself, but you never know-come talk to him about your idea, he's very informative and eager to take on new and exciting projects thru-out the cool months. Steve is already rocking out awesome work as well. He's only been in the shop for a couple of months but already has made quite an impression with his bold style and no nonsense approach to his work. Simply put- he doesn't mess around, you want it done- he gets it done. No BS. Of course what can be said about Lea that hasn't already been said-0 the girl bangs out awesome work-her skills and artistic delivery is impeccable, just read our reviews on Yelp.com She's mentioned in almost half of them.

This is going to be an amazing time in Bethesda Tattoos history. We hope youll come down and be a part of that history.