These tattoos were done as body art interpretations of the original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel for the Alice in Wonderland books by Charles Dodgson, who wrote under the nom de plume of Lewis Carroll.
The tattoos are done with both single and tight 3 needle clusters as necessary to create the line weights. The wonderful thing about doing this work is that it is true black work. One can’t even call it “Black and Grey” with any authority, because there is absolutely no shading but for the impression of shading given by the crosshatching.
These pieces were a joy for me to do on several levels. First I have long been a Tenniel admirer and secondly I love to do pen and ink illustration and this work is just permanent pen and ink technique on skin.
That’s the series so far, although we are working on an entire leg from foot to thigh of Alice & Company. Please visit Thorne’s Ink to check out more of my work.
5 comments for this post
Awesome work, I loooove it!!! The quality of your line work is amazing!
Lovely work, Thorne. Very true to source.
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hey that’s me. i mean alice. i mean my alice! well you know what i mean. i *heart* my thornie ink! mmmmm… still itching for that Lewis Carroll portrait we talked about. yep.
Thank you, Carolina and darkblack!
Ooohhh, my e. I want to do that, too! Muaaah!
Nice work. Crosshatching is where its at! Sometimes I wish more artists used it instead of solid shading every time.
-Nate
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