This young lady had someone start a watercolor reproduction on her upper chest. I was charged with finishing/fixing what was already there and completing the reproduction. She created the painting herself and I transcribed it to her skin. Thanks guys!
Small Sugar skull on the top of the foot/ankle area.
Mr. T on a gold bicycle.
Here is my process for doing a cover-up tattoo. In this case we needed to cover a “tribal” lower back piece. I begin by freehand drawing the design on the skin to ensure proper placement and it allows me to modify the design as needed. Next everything is outlined and prepped for color and shading. A few hours later and no more tribal.
Small blue sparrow that is part of a leg piece I have been working on that uses traditional tattoo elements but rendered in a not so traditional way. Lots of bright color going on. I will add photos of some of the other pieces as we progress.
It’s a tree, it’s an ankle…it’s both. Trankle! I keed. Ouch, she took it like a champ. Most people try to avoid the ankle bone but not her.
Sleeve in progress. This flame inspired sleeve features a dragon and several Oni masks. We have spent many hours on the piece since these photos were taken and I will have completed photos very soon.
Tattoo of outer space, inspired by images from the Hubble telescope. We did this much over two sessions for a total of about 5 hours so far. We still have one more session to continue the image around the inside of the arm.
Finished up the Candy Man tattoo today (Actor: Tony Todd). This is about 5″ tall on the ankle. Bottom of the horror portrait leg I have been working on for a while. It’s nice to have another one finished after so long. This piece is below Pinhead (Hellraiser) and Pumpkinhead on the left leg and finishes out the bottom edge. All I had to work from was a screen capture from the movie so we kept this one small enough to not look too blurry. You can barely see in the photo but his coat is turning into a honeycomb pattern. Maybe we’ll add some bees later to fill in some gaps up the leg.
I’ve been updating some links on my blog and I keep coming across images that I hadn’t posted here before (some may have been posted elsewhere before).
My version of Mark Ryden’s “Nurse Sue” painting. Took about 3 hours and is about 5 inches tall.