While I’m pondering the idea of sleeving it out, what ideas do you all have that would not detract from the totem pole itself? I was thinking a nature scape with tepee, lake, fire, foreground; mountain, buffalo mid; into a night sky with some image in the smoke…I have lots of ideas, but I just don’t know what will work and not contrast too much with what I’m currently working on.
Looks good, ive been lurking your posts waiting on you to actually get the ink laid down. I like it. I at one time pondered doing something like a totem pole but with Tiki masks, i was going to have the mask wrap around my arm the entire way as to have it seem to be wood all the way around. None the less, I like this and cant wait to see some color.
Here is a very rough sketch that I did of an idea I have for sleeving out this arm. It’s hard to see, as it’s done with pencil. It’s a sunset over a mountain with buffalo/reflection over a lake. I would be interested in hearing your opinion about adding this to the existing totem pole. I am not a tattoo expert, but I think it could look pretty good. I haven’t shared this with my artist yet, but I’m sure he’ll have some ideas to make this work. Those wavy lines on either side are the existing lines of my current ink after I wrapped the tracing paper around my arm. I’d love to hear your take. kcg
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Excellent design. I like it. Good artist you hired. I want to see this finished.
A glimpse of the work done during the 4th session of my totem pole sleeve. I’m 13.5 hours in at this point. There’s a lot you haven’t seen yet (session 3), but I sure am digging how the whole thing is coming together. I hope you do to. Sorry for the low-grade pic, from my Android….when it’s all done, I’ll get the good camera fired up.
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