Laid a lot of white in on this sitting. One more sitting should see the final detail work and retouch of the white. The claws need work yet and there’ll be green grass and her bloody kill. Too much fun, but the client will be sore after this one. White is OUCH!!!
Peace, out!
Wow! I’ve been MIA! The good news is it really was “action” of the good kind. My good friend from Fresno, “LaLa” and her sons showed up for a surprise visit. We used to be neighbors. Well; almost neighbors. About 5 minutes away when I lived “down the hill”, as we desert dwellers call anything South of the Cajon Pass.
Our pet name for each other was the same, “Muchacha Loca” (Crazy Woman). We were always too loud and had too much fun drinking Vente quad Starbucks (that’s 6 shots) and staying up all night crafting.
Crazy, fun times.
I could tell you stories, and maybe some day I will. For now suffice to say that it was wonderful to see her. We were too loud, and a little crazy; we laughed a lot and reminisced a little and drank buckets of my Ralphs (read: cheap) coffee (made palatable by adding fresh coarse ground cinnamon). We ate killer (read: my homemade and the GirlyBoi’s grilled) Carne Asada, and tattooed. Yep. Too much fun. Here’s what I designed for her son, who has been waiting 5 years (since he was 17) for a tattoo from his “Mema”.
I’ll have to touch this one up in a couple months to get the black nice and solid. My lil monkey had a few beers the night before and was bleeding like a stuck pig. Hehe. Click on the thumbnails for a couple of detail shots.
Peace, out!
This lion is done in what I call my “reasonably realistic” style. I call it reasonably realistic because I use a bit more black than one would find in a photo-realistic style of tattoo, but not as much black outlining as one would use doing a more traditional tattoo style. I find that a bit of black helps with depth and perspective and tends to keep the tattoo looking good longer than going for photo-realism, especially when the client is into tanning, and this one is religious about hitting the tanning beds.
Peace, out!
Before you buy a companion parrot please understand that only 10% of your bird is pretty. The other 90% is noisy, messy, moody, jealous and downright painful at times. Before you spend big bucks on that 10% pretty, make sure you understand the 90% you get for free!!
