Winding up

I have a couple of newer photos of an in-progress art nouveau inspired tattoo to share - The piece incorporates a bunch of local flower varieties, including: gladiolus, magnolias, swamp iris, camellia, and azalea.

It's a particularly labor intensive piece - and I'm trying to keep it simple! Execution wise that is. At this point we are somewhere in the middle stage, probably just past the middle. The middle stage is many hours long you see... but after the middle hump things really start to take shape. The overall look of this piece is going to change either the next sitting or the one after, once I go over the background again. You will see!

and since we we're going on about works in progress, I'll just throw in a few better pics of the scuba diver. Enjoy!

We just have his elbow left, and some bit here and there. Can't wait.

Special Seahorse Specimen

I've been back to work for three days now - today will make it my fourth - and my wrist is feeling waaaay better than I thought. Especially while tattooing. And that's awesome.

On Tuesday I got to work on a really fun piece on a fun client, whose tip of a giant sack of various coffees kept me going during my tightly-budgeted-recovery in my cast, when I wasn't able to work. We did some more coloring on his forearm, which depicts an old-timey scuba diver/scientist being attacked by an octopus while trying to grab a specimen jar in which he's captured a seahorse. Much fun!