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THE SCENE...

We've included some pictures from the 1996-2005 Richmond conventions to provide an overview of what goes on there. Occasionally we don't know the folks in the pictures, so, if you're in one of the pictures below, tell us your name if you want to and we will include it here.

Mike Saurs does tribal work on son...and then on dad....

This guy's just gotten a new piece of skullage...and SKREW YOU too (see shouder)....

Bob Montagna keep cranking them out, year after year....

And so do many others....

Necro Banks, of Necro Designs in Lake Lure, North Carolina, applies some ink at the 1996 convention, above.

Sylvia, a nurse from Danville, Virginia, getting ink at the 1996 convention.

Besty got an interesting tattoo on her leg at the 1997 convention. She calls it her "bad chick of the future."

This tattoo was colored in the next day.

Andrea, from Manassas, shows some fine tattoos. Aaron Cain did the work on her chest. Kevin Brown did the creative inkwork on her arm.

Here's Kristen, also from Manassas, getting her latest ink at the '97 Richmond convention. Kristen's ink is from Mike Dorsey, Aaron Cain, Atomizer, and Scott Junkins.

See the May 1998 issue of International Tattoo Art for extensive photo coverage of Andrea and Kristen in it's coverage of the 1997 Richmond Convention.

Sean is shown below, shortly after Shahn Anderson completed some upper arm work at the 1997 Richmond convention.

This is another work in progress at the 1997 convention...a dragon on the rib cage.

How do you think the needle felt on all those ribs?

Here's an interesting tattoo...an adaptation of the Silence of the Lambs logo....

Colin and Chad, below, are both tattoo artists at Ace Tattoo Studio in Charlotte, North Carolina. They both had work in Richmond that connected lower and upper arm work into more unified pieces. Colin's on the left, below, and Chad's on the right.

Chad is working on a body suit. Below, you can see the collar of that suit...a series of individual and distinct eyeballs that currently extends across his front from shoulder to shoulder.

The large Jimi Hendrix backpiece shown below is especially fine. Those of you who saw this tattoo in Richmond in 1996 will notice that the ink below the guitar was added since then.

The tattoo below was done by Matthew Amey of Salisbury, Maryland.

Frank has an awesome back piece...

This tattoo generates a lot of emotion, just like the Wall and the war that spawned it. Susan Fauser and Tom Renshaw did the inkwork.

Here are some magnigicent tattooed legs.

Here's a large western scene on the back of a guy at the 1998 Richmond Convention.

That was quite a weekend! All the ink you see was done in a single weekend at the 1998 Richmond Convention.

Shahan Anderson working his needles....

Below is some very fine portrait work done in grey and black shading...John Wayne, Don Knotts, and Clint Eastwood look like they just might speak to you from his arm. Each of the portraits, photographed at the 1998 convention, was done by Brian Everett.