St. Michael slaying the devil…

Copyright 2011 “NikkiVixxen”

iamjenn2:

I want someone to treat me like a new toy,
for the rest of my life.

This guy came in with Mike (his come next), and was quite indecisive about what he wanted.  He looked through a lot of books.  Halfway through Mike’s tattoo, he said he wanted this:

Since we didn’t have any printed line drawings, I had to make my own.  I asked him if we could go a little green-er with the flames, since this color had not enough contrast, and would be hard to see in the skin.  He said he never really thought he’d want a color tattoo but he LOVED this.  This is what he ended up with:

Mike had existing tattoos.  He wanted a sort of parade of skulls in between the figures he had already.  He’s coming back in 2 weeks for an additional 2 skulls, behind and slightly below the largest one.  I drew this design freehand:

And tattooed it in black and grayscale:

My son Artemas (“Sobe”) Has had this lizard tattoo almost 2 years.  Today he decided we should add to it.  ”Something tropical.”  He picked out Hibiscus, finger waves, a tree snake, split-leaf phildendron, and a lil’ bitty tree frog.

I drew the art right on the skin (no tracings or stencils).  The three photos are the frog colored, the snake colored, and the rest lined in.

That was enough work for him today.

Tonight I re-colored the purple rose in my chest/stomach piece.  I added dark shadows in it, deepened the color, added shading around and in the sugar skull (including the teeth) and brightened the pink colors in it.

Before and after:

But they didnt send me a hateful anon.

Instead they stole 6 pics of my tattoos or tattoos I’ve done, from my Facebook or blog. Some were early works. One was just done, so the white areas looked bloody. And one was my logo tattoo, during which my shader gave out. I have since retouched it so it is a VERY nice tattoo indeed.

This unknown, vindictive person took my work and submitted it to FuckNoTattoos (http://fucknotattoos.tumblr.com). I have respectfully asked them to remove the posts.

It’s gonna be a lot harder to remove the bayonet from my back.

I wish somebody would tell me what’s a tattoo FAIL about this?

My friend Lynn came down from OH last summer and was the recipient of the first color tattoo I ever did on someone other than me.

She had a tattoo of two playing dragons on her back, to represent her sons.  Then she had another son, who nursed the longest of the 3 kids.  She wanted a companion tattoo to the first one, to commemorate him and their time as a nursing couple.

So I drew this for her.  She came yesterday and had me ink it.  When she comes down at Christmastime we’re going to renew the playing dragons, too.

Pix:  Stencil of my drawing, linework, complete.