Thorne | June 16, 2009 | 12:25 am
Sorry for the slightly fuzzy image. We’ve chosen a red rose to begin covering the eagle on the left which was a bit disproportionate. The first sitting photo can be found at my post entitled: Forget Me Nots, (you may see the eagle before I covered it with the rose there). The client got these tattoos when she was pretty young; some time in her early 20′s, I believe. The tops of both of her breasts are tattooed, mostly sketchily. We’ll be covering and reworking them both as well as possibly adding some black and grey filigree type work to complete a halter top design encircling her back and going up around her neck. Stay tuned for further progress!
Peace, out!
Thorne | May 24, 2009 | 10:27 pm
Tattoos are permanent.
Ya think? Hehe. I really try to make sure that my ink clients won’t want their tattoo covered up someday simply because the subject matter turns out to be inappropriate. These stylized Forget-Me-Nots are covering up some adolescent pot leaves. Lucky for the client, they were done by a scratcher who thought tattooing was like sketching. He didn’t go too deep or too dark. They’re proving easy to cover up. There are a couple of Bald Eagles below the flowers. One of them has enough decent lines (and it’s important to the client), so I’ll be tuning it up and making it into an eagle to be proud of, while continuing to cover and rework the rest of the tattoo. I’ll keep ya’ll posted as the work progresses.
Peace, out!
Thorne | May 15, 2009 | 7:06 pm
Since I’ve decided to go ahead and get all the way real and live about me and my life, I think I’ll begin with a series of articles to introduce myself in the main areas of focus here in Thorne’s World. I’ve given a lot of thought on whether or not I should separate the main areas of interest or “niches” into separate blogs, and after much consideration I’ve decided that trying to write a blog (or several blogs) in a “niche” is too boring, too limited, and too much like pandering to a particular market or target demographic, which I feel might then put too much pressure on me to write for that demographic, instead of writing my truth.
So I’ll just be keepin’ on with Thorne’s World being the big, varied and eclectic place it is! This, my dear Constant Readers, is the first in a series I’m calling “More Than You Prolly Wanna Know About Thorne”. This first one will cover Tattoos and may touch a bit on some of my other art.
As a brief aside, the tattoo and back featured above is mine. Umm.. well, the tattoo is mine by virtue of being inked upon my back. The artwork is by Judy Parker of Pacific Tattoo. Although I’ve been tattooing for many years, I didn’t get my first largish piece until I was 42 years old. A few pieces later, I began this piece at 45. It is very symbolic and important to me, and I will be having additional sittings with color and will post more pics then. Now, without further ado:
More Than You Prolly Wanna Know About Thorne – Tattoo Edition
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