Tattoo artists put their work next to other stuff all the time, so they know how to make different styles and images work together. Since you are going in knowing that it is going to be a half sleeve then the artist will be able to make it all flow and work with the existing piece.

Love your sleeve idea BTW. Share…

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That’s so good! And it flows so incredibly well from piece to piece. You must be super happy with it.

Thanks Lola:)

Knee today….

The BRAG ART list only shows 1 in Perth, and it is a private studio. Not exactly what you’re looking for. But maybe try contacting them to see if they can suggest an artist or shop near them?

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Find a really good artist you can let them just run with your
idea of guns and your nation’s flag, and you will get a piece that you can be proud of forever.

Good advice!

Welcome to the forum! (I got my first at 56!)

That came out nice, I like it. Who’s the artist?

Carol “Cricket” Jackie. She’s phenomenal!

I feel a little shy about sharing her name (internet privacy and all that), but she said she would like to use the piece in her portfolio – if the piece is going to be used for publicity anyway it seems silly to keep the name to…[Read more]

I think he is saying that it is going to look like the cover-up here: Nice cover-up… – WTF Tattoos : WTF Tattoos

Also, if you get just a rectangle outline done it will only take a few minutes but you are going to have to pay ‘shop minimum’ to get it done. That is usually a half hour rate, for something that will…

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They are artists and know about contrast, hue, and value. I don’t. If they ask me what colour I want, I tell them to do the piece the way that they would like to see it done. Sometimes at that point they tell me the direction they want to go, sometimes they just start pouring ink.

If there is something more specific…

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There is no health risk. It just doesn’t look good.

Thanks for the quick response!

I bet your artist knows how they would like to see it coloured. Don’t you trust them?

Whether or not I trust my artist has nothing to do with color suggestions. I picked the colors for the mask. My artist lets me have input.

Does your artist just color your pieces in without telling you at all what colors he/she is using?

Your artist is going to have to be really good, I mean REALLY good to execute this well. That is a lot of characters and they (and the spacing) are going to have to be neat, even, straight and consistant or it is going to be a mess. Good luck with that.

Well, I guess that wasn’t very encouraging.

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they are today’s version of the 90s tramp stamp

I’m seeing this A LOT on the Icelandic tattoo scene. Scores of girls getting gawd awful tattoos done by B-grade tattooists, to the point that I imagine I’ll one day be surprised when I go to the pool and see a chest without one.

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“Tattoos, every pussy would have one.”

Yes indeed!

(SAM – you sometimes consume alcohol prior to an appointment and haven’t had a problem??? Maybe I will be able to have a few bevvies next weekend, after all. I usually abstain for 24 hours before an appointment, but …. I’ll be on vacation so …. maybe a couple wouldn’t hurt. I’ll let you know how the experiment…

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A healed tattoo is never quite as bright as a fresh one because a new layer of skin grows over it, but should still be the same colour. You are going to have to go back for a touch up to fix where the colour ‘fell out’. In general touch ups are free (except hands/feet/face). You are also probably going to have to…

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The last time I had a bad bruise after a tattoo that seemed to last forever, it did last forever. It wasn’t a bruise but a bad blow out. Has your bruise changed colour (you know, to that nasty yellow brown green) like they do when they heal? If it is still black and blue like a fresh bruise 6 weeks out then it…

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Hey Jim! What style are you into? American Traditional, Japanese, New Skool, Realism? It’s hard to recommend an artist without knowing that first.

The first artist that came to mind in your area is Freddy Corbin. Scott Sylvia is down there, too.

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Yes. It will stay brown. You should go back to show the artist, to educate them.

And by educate them she means kick him in the balls very hard many times

Cute. But now the first 2 lines of the poem are stuck in my head.

did you know theres a whole second verse? i was considering getting the pig and turkey from that put on my calves but dont know if that would be a bit of overkill on the owl n pussycat thing lol!

I like that one a lot too. But that Beatles one never gets old for me.

To the OP: I agree with these guys, skip the quote and get a great image. It will always mean ‘music inspires’ to you anyways. And truthfully, holding still to let someone read your tattoo is really cool for about the first week and then it gets…

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It looks WAY better now! You gotta be happy with how it turned out. Congrats.

Thank you, I am very pleased how it turned out.
It’s been three days since I got it done and it’s itching like crazy, is there a way to lessen the itch?

Get it wherever you want it. Even if it’s a painful spot you should be able to handle it for a tiny little 2 inch tattoo.

Very true. I wanted to go bigger though, I guess I’ll just get the small one though.

It now takes me 3 tries to access the website. The page comes up for less than a second then is replaced by an Internal Server Error page. So I try again, same thing. On the third try the website is accessible. Has been happening that way for more than a week.

This ^^^^ happens I mostly just give up

I have two that come from self portrait photos posted on line by a young photographer in Britain. Before using them I was able to contact her and get her permission to have them used. One of the tattoo artists contacted her afterwards to use some of her other photos for painting references.

But I have others based on…

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In the past I have had some quite severe swelling and also been a bit of a bleeder, now I do a few things differently and haven’t had much of a swelling (or bleeding) problem at all with the last 3 tattoos. What I do is to try to eat really ‘clean’ for a few days before a tattoo appointment. No junk food and no SALTY…

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(SAM … I said CONVERT not PERVERT … :rolleyes: !!!)

I think deep inside everybody has some pervert tendencies. You just need the right person to bring them out.

LOVE that. Nice composition and well executed, too. I really like that silhouetted lady at the bottom, nice touch.

thx it was my pick from a film noir painting a saw and the artist did the rest of the composition with the idea i had

@buttwheat 142255 wrote:

Nice. I think I saw that on IG

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I especially like the b&g gas mask on the colour chestplate.

I really also liked the gas mask but I saw it as 2 different pieces. Why can’t you foreigners spell color?

I HATE mushrooms. Blecht. The smell. The taste. Mostly the texture.

But that is a pretty sweet addition to your food…

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I HATE mushrooms. Blecht. The smell. The taste. Mostly the texture.

But that is a pretty sweet addition to your food tattoos. (I bet you like mushrooms :p)

I use to hate mushrooms but I love them now

I HATE mushrooms. Blecht. The smell. The taste. Mostly the texture.

But that is a pretty sweet addition to your food tattoos. (I bet you like mushrooms :p)

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Very nice. Who did it?

Andrew Dennis from New Image Tattoo in Cambridgeshire

This is the arm at all angles with a pic of my Aunt on the other side

For the right artist I would.

Same here. If I drove, that is. But easily. I do 15hr trips for the right artist.

Welcome to the forum.

Not sure you should get more work from that artist, since I didn’t even recognize that as DeNiro. I’ve seen worse, but you can do much better. And when it comes to tattoos … well … mediocre just isn’t good enough. Especially for a portrait.

I love the idea of getting that drawing as a…

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Welcome to the forum. You won’t find a lot of love for script tattoos here, but if that is what you want …

V:XII does not equal 5:13

Revelation V:XII = In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and …
Revelation 5:13 = Then I heard…

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Thanks guys. It was a pretty cool surprise.

And thanks Sam. The song has been stuck in my head since seeing your post. But it’s a good one!

LOL! You’re a peach Lola!

Nice. I think you should definitely keep it! 😎

Are the pics from when it was fresh, or more recent? (The tucked up sleeve and brighter colour in the first pic makes me think it was taken when fresh.)

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It’s getting close now.

Which day are you booked for? We’re heading down to Seattle for that weekend, and planning to go to the convention on Saturday.

I had to cancel my spot. My wife blew her lid when she found out how much of “our” money I was going to spend. 🙁
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All Canadian beer came in glass ‘stubby’ bottles until the mid 80’s. The stubby beer bottle was Canada’s national beer bottle from 1961 to 1984. I’ve often thought bringing them back for a special promotion would be a great seller. I guess they had the same idea. Are they plastic, or glass?

they are glass 🙂

Yes. But does it have a beer holder?

No she doesn’t drink to much beer and that would probably just slow her down then she wouldn’t have time to make my dinner

I haven’t seen a bottle like that in a few years! And I have never seen American beer in a ‘stubby’. I always thought that those bottles were a Canadian thing, but by the time I was legal they had switched to the taller, slimmer, long neck bottles.

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It’s how I got my tattoo from Mike DeVries. And my upcoming appointment with Cecil Porter. Sent off a note not expecting to hear back from them, but they liked the concept.

And if you don’t ask, that is the same as getting a NO. So you really don’t have anything to lose by asking. And if you get a YES, you feel like…

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If you think that you want him to do it, send a request. Your idea may be something that he is interested in. Or even excited to do.

True. I suppose there’s no harm done by trying.

EDIT: just looked again, Shawn Barber is on the list of artists

Yea I emailed him I haven’t heard back

I have had some itch, some REALLY ITCH, and some not at all. I think that I have had less itching since I started using the ‘dry wrap’ method for healing, but I am not sure that the healing method is the difference. This is going to require more research …. so …. I guess I’m going to have to get more…

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Some areas hurt a lot more than others. I find that the feeling can range anywhere from something like a cell phone vibrating on you to being carved into with a white hot butter knife. Or worse.

Although yours is on a quite tender area, it was a small and simple design to do. Lots of open space, and no shading,…

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Sorry, no pics of the peacock. To see him you have to at least buy me dinner. (or get me drunk. :o)

Sounds reasonable!

Dinner and a hockey game?

Did your tattoo shrink after you got home? Because it is not near the dreaded “ditch”. The area that I was referring to is the crease on the inside of your elbow. (The back of the knee would also be a “bitch” … oops … I mean “ditch”.)

If you google “tattoo pain scale” or “tattoo pain map” images you can get an…

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(The back of the knee would also be a “bitch” … oops … I mean “ditch”.)

Sorry Lola. You were right the first time! Worst spot so far.

Wait until you get to some of the more tender areas. Outside of the arm, that’s about a 2 on the tattoo pain scale. When you get to the ditch … then you can say that it hurt and I’ll believe you.

Curious about this pain scale. Where do the stomach and ribs lie on this scale.