New work exclusive to Steemit w/ Inkmaster Angels host, Ryan Ashley!

Starting a Steemit post at 3:00a.m. isn’t “best practices”. Here I am, though. @vermillionfox is off galavanting in LA with @lonniedi. Something’s up with @guthrie’s stomach. As we all sat in @caffetto, @tarotbyfergus and I in the midst of a nail bitter Magic: The Gathering game, he barfed all over himself, the floor, everywhere. I got him home, cleaned up and to bed. The rest of my night has been the arduous work of a freelancer. Steemit is 70% of my living currently, but I still have Patreon, book responsibilities with “Dark Pinup” on the horizon and truckloads of client needs to tend to.

Of the set I’ve been dying to get to for far to long was my summer shoot with my friend Ryan Ashley, winner of last year’s Inkmaster and this seasons host of Inkmaster Angels. I’ve been shooting with Ryan longer than any model in my portfolio and the stakes have been getting increasingly high. As she’s become a legitimate celebrity, our pictures are now hitting audiences of millions. We always try to push ourselves creatively, outdoing the shoots that’ve come before.

This shoot was unique in it’s own as I’ve been evolving to photos even darker than those which I’ve shot over the last five years. We shot in a rectory converted to a multi-floor living space. Endless halls of weird paintings, silk flowers, taxidermy and ornaments. Ryan had done her hair and make-up in a beautifully haunting goth pinup look that resembled Bride of Frankenstein. Photos that’ll be a natural fit for the pages of “Dark Pinup”. Hopefully I’ll have a chance to get to more of these tomorrow.

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